MSc in Game Design

Game Design

Game Designing is what one can call a new age career. The entertainment business may be centuries old, but the gaming industry has been making it's significance felt only for a little less than three decades. And when we talk about India alone, the figure drops down to only a decade or so! India has a huge potential for developing games for domestic and international markets. There are five main departments in the average game company: art, design, programming, sound, and support. Many companies divide each into sub-categories. The casual gaming in India is expected to grow significantly at a CAGR of 32% by 2015. Revenue from this sector is expected to grow four times and the number of casual gamers to increase eight times by 2015.

The worldwide gaming market (demand perspective) stood at USD 21 billion in 2006.
This market is expected to reach USD 42 billion by 2010, growing at a CAGR of nearly 18 percent over 2006-2010. Developers’ costs account for around 25-30 percent of revenues. Consequently, the worldwide gaming content market (developers’perspective) was estimated at nearly USD 7 billion in 2006 and is expected to cross USD 13 billion by 2010, a CAGR of about 17 percent over 2006-2010. In the gaming market, mobile and online gaming segments are expected to grow signi?cantly at CAGRs of about 30 and 25 percent respectively, through till 2010.The US and Europe remain the biggest markets for outsourcing animation and gaming related activities. Majority of the work from these markets is being outsourced to destinations in the Asia Paci?c region and in East Europe.

Career Prospects:

After completing this course, you can work in the gaming industry as also in digital media including film, TV, advertising & multimedia. Job profiles: Concept Artist, Animator, Rigger, Modeler, Environment Artist, Level Designer, GUI Designer, Lighting & Texturing Artist, SFX Artist, Sound Designer, Jr. Artist.