New ASU EA Game Design Course

[Jonathan Whatley]

Fun new course from Arizona State University Earned Admission, formerly Universal Learner:

AME 160 Introduction to Game Design

Overview

This course introduces students to the general and foundational concepts behind game design, including what works, how to integrate game elements, and how to support a player's experience. This is an introductory course that will prepare students for courses that focus on implementing these skills and concepts while creating a game.

What you’ll learn

• Introduce students to game design concepts (including game rules/systems, mechanics, narrative, and player experience as part of design)
  
• Support students before pursuing higher level courses in the BS in Game Design
  
• Provide students with opportunities to critically assess game design and build a working knowledge of design concepts required to understand game-making
  
• Understand and implement basic concepts of game rules, mechanics, and systems
  
• Critically assess design in existing games, applying course knowledge to design decisions while evaluating their positive and negative aspects
  
• Develop basic design plans and outlines to prepare for game creation in later courses
  

Students will use the Endstar 3D game creation engine.

Session-based exclusively in 8-week terms, not self-paced. Next start date is March 17 2026. 3 credits. $25 to enter then $400 to transcript.

[newdegree]

Seeing this brought back a flashback memory from like 2008-2016, ITT Tech used to run commercials for their bachelor's in game design on TV in New York. Always looked so cool to get a degree in game design, especially if you were a gamer.

[bjcheung77]

Hmm, I always thought it was the other way around, Earned Admissions to Universal Learner. I guess they liked EA that much, they reverted back since all their webpages are using EA still...

[Jonathan Whatley]

Earned Admissions became Universal Learner then became Earned Admission!