Graduate Certificate - Game Development - Advanced Programming (PGDAP)

Sheridan College's Game Development courses encompass both 2D and 3D game development. In this one-year graduate certificate program, students will learn advanced game programming techniques, utilize industry-standard technologies, and apply their programming skills to animation, artificial intelligence and multiplayer systems.

Game programmers play a vital role in the industry, and are commonly involved in a project from initial conception through to production. Sheridan College Game Development – Advanced Programming certificate will prepare students to step directly into an exciting game development career.

The benefits of the program include: • Outstanding job prospects in a growing industry. • Hands-on curriculum emphasizing job-specific skills. • Collaboration with Sheridan College renowned Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design.

In this program, students will gain important industry-specific skills such as: • Gameplay programming • Graphics programming • Mobile game development • Project management • Game documentation • Playtesting • Tool development

In the final semester, students will also collaborate with students from the Game Level Design program to develop and produce an original video game capstone project.