Video Game Production: Game Art

This pathway map will help you gain the expertise needed to:

1. Analyze the electronic game industry, including history, markets, distribution, publishing channels, business models, team roles, and career landscape.
2. Analyze commonly used narrative strategies, media resources, animation methods, and interactive components in video games.
3. Manage game development project resources, budgets, goals, and tasks.
4. Evaluate software and hardware used for game design, development, and production.
5. Apply basic scripting and programming concepts in the creation of interactive components, animations, and game assets.
6. Create planning materials such as sketches, character sheets, storyboards, prototypes, narrative scripts, audio, and design documents.
7. Create a variety of media resources such as images, models, sprites, and animations.
8. Construct game experiences using planning materials and media resources.
9. Demonstrate effective written, oral, visual, and interpersonal communication skills.
10. Collaborate in a culturally responsive manner in a team environment.
11. Engage in ethical personal and professional creative practices, in accordance with copyright laws, intellectual property, civic responsibility, and standards of the field.
12. Examine the implications of cultural values, individual beliefs, and biases as applied to game design, development, and production.
13. Create a portfolio of selected game art, animations, and interactive projects.