Every game is built from choices about what a player can do, see, hear and discover. In Elon’s Game Design minor, you’ll make those choices with students whose skills and interests differ from yours. Choose a specialty that draws on what you already study or takes you in a new direction, then bring that perspective to a collaborative game project. You’ll see how your contribution fits with the work of the whole team.
Game Design
You’ll study how games work, develop a concept and learn the steps of game production. Then, in two collaborative development courses, you’ll join students with different specialties to prototype, playtest and complete a game. Each person brings particular skills; the team works out how the design, visuals, sound and code come together.
Every student takes the shared game design and development courses, then chooses a specialty sequence. You can build on what you study in your major or develop skills in an area you want to explore.
Teams of students in Elon’s Game Design minor have taken their games from concept to publication on Steam. Explore what they created, from puzzles and adventures to action and horror, then follow the links to download and play the games for free.
Explore a western mining town where danger waits above and below ground. Descend into eerie mines, battle enemies and find a way to survive a brutal world built around mining and murder.
Return to the forest where your friend Sam disappeared a decade ago. Gather clues, solve puzzles and confront the corruption spreading through this mystical world as you piece together what happened to him.
Help a grandmother get home from work in a puzzle game inspired by her exaggerated stories. Each level brings new obstacles as you shoot, dodge and find a path to the finish.
In this first person combat adventure, you have one job: destroy the plague before it destroys you. Slash, dash and jump through a world of rats as you fight to stay alive.
Enter a boarding school where something has gone terribly wrong. Hide from enemies, uncover what happened at B.A.D. Institute and find a way out in this first person survival horror game.
The Game Design minor is a 24–28 semester hour program combining shared courses in game design and collaborative development with one specialty sequence. The sequence you choose shapes the skills you bring to a game development team.
Choose one of the following specialty sequences:
Complete both:
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Faculty traditionally associated with the Game Design minor
