12 Distance Learning Master Programs in Game Design 2024

Are you passionate about video games? Now you can go from being a mere reader to devoting yourself professionally to producing them yourself. It doesn't matter what level you start from or your previous studies. You can become a professional comic artist and turn your passion into your profession. We will guide you like true mentors and show you step by step how to achieve it.

The Master in Video Game Development is aimed at people interested in learning, from scratch, how to design and program a video game, without prior knowledge being necessary to make the most of it.

Lay the foundation for a professional career as a digital artist in the video game industry. Become a multidisciplinary artist, master the essential skills of a video game artist for the production of 3D models, texturing, lighting and animation. You will work with video game engines and complete practical exercises in the design of settings, characters, vehicles and objects.

The Master´s Degree in Game Business Management is aimed at persons working or seeking employment in growth and internationalization-oriented game development organizations, and staff of organizations that already engage in international operations. The degree is a Master’s level (second-cycle) qualification of 90 credits in total. It takes approximately two years to complete as it is a part-time programme.

The International MSc Program “Immersive Technologies – Innovation in Education, Training and Game Design” – (IMT) of the Department of Computer Science of the International Hellenic University (IHU) of Greece caters to teachers, researchers and scientists of all specialities with an interest in Immersive Technologies.

Video games have grown up. First person shooters, online role-playing games, rhythm games, sports titles – each genre is providing gamers with sophisticated gameplay, graphics, and storylines that could hardly have been imagined a decade ago.

Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context

The MA in Game Development program allows students to further their careers by synthesizing traditional art and design fundamentals with today’s groundbreaking technologies. Students prepare their career skill-set through hands-on prototyping of game mechanics and art creation, followed by creating a final project industry-quality portfolio.

Are you passionate about movies, videogames and animation? Now you can go from being a mere expectator to devoting yourself professionally to producing them yourself. It doesn't matter what level you start from or your previous studies. You can become a professional and turn your passion into your profession. We will guide you like true mentors and show you step by step how to achieve it.

The Continuing Education Master's Degree in Narrative Design and Video Game Studies is offered as 100% online training. Its academic structure is based on uniting two key facets of video game creation: cultural studies on video games and the design of fictional worlds and the narrative structures that drive them.

The MFA Game Development program allows students to further their careers by synthesizing traditional art and design fundamentals with today’s groundbreaking technologies. Students level up their skills through hands-on prototyping of game mechanics and art creation, followed by creating a thesis project and an industry-quality portfolio.

On this online Indie Game Development MA, you'll produce vibrant and engaging experiences for gamers. Analyse the principles of the creative process, from ideation and design through to delivery and dissemination. Integrate design tools, programming languages, game engines, as well as specialist middleware and frameworks into your game development practice. Explore business models used by indie games studios to see how you could start up your own. And, if you already have a business idea, get it off the ground with help from a mentor.