Applied Immersive Game Design

• UC’s Te Kura Hanga Otinga | School of Product Design brings together creative design, science, engineering, and business studies, and there are opportunities to apply your learning through team-based projects, entrepreneurship courses, and the use of dedicated, hands-on product innovation spaces.
• Developing your skills throughout the degree, you'll be building your first games, right from the first semester of year one.
• You will have extensive use of the School's gaming lounge which houses consoles, PCs, and AR/VR spaces and equipment.
• Based at UC, the Hangarau Tangata, Tangata Hangarau | HIT Lab NZ, specialises in the rapidly growing areas of augmented reality and immersive game design, with expert lecturers and facilities.
• UC is ranked 240th in the world for Engineering and Technology, and in the top 250 universities in the world for Business and Management Studies (QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2020).

Students should ideally have at least 14 credits in Level 2 NCEA science and mathematics (or the IB/CIE equivalent of these).

The electronic entertainment and technology sector is one of the biggest earners worldwide, with the gaming industry in particular growing at an exponential rate. Game development companies are continuously looking for well-qualified graduates with advanced technical skills and experience.

Aotearoa New Zealand houses more start-up gaming developers per capita than any other country in the world, which benefit from graduates with ‘all-round’ skills, from technical aspects through to marketing and customer support.

Many companies look for graduates with broad skills and a user-centred approach to game and software design, for example in the areas of entertainment, industrial, retail, tourism, education, behavioural intervention, robotics, and medical and rehabilitation.

Find out more about what you can do with a degree in Applied Immersive Game Design.