Game Design Trailer Montage 09 - Vancouver Film School (VFS)

[Parladaz]

This was done in 2009, I wonder what type of games students are creating now. Lots of different styles, from the game mechanics to the artistic look and game type. Do students do all the modelling, programing, audio, effects etc in the games? I'm interested in Game Design. I've been reading books about it but its just theory at the end. I'll love to work and learn from people who are experts in the area.

[VancouverFilmSchool]

@Parladaz In most cases, the students are responsible for everything, however, there is some collaboration with students from the Sound Design for Visual Media program.

[VancouverFilmSchool]

@Parladaz In most cases, the students are responsible for everything, however, there is some collaboration with students from the Sound Design for Visual Media program.

[chrispen9]

do you need any previous skills to take this course such as animation? I take Film and Television at high school.

[TimeBreaker1987]

:O that was awesome

[Feanon2]

sence??

[BeondaPale]

Foamzilla is HILARIOUS

[littlejay123]

I remember this at the game design expo

[Moineaucage]

THIS IS AMAZING... gonna have to go see that site and download plenty of game.

[AceOfSpiders]

I think i have seen the game with the green sponge dinosaur advertised somewhere before.

[WiggyRap]

Excuse me , could I please ask about what Kind of program do you use ?

[therealnoz]

I was thinking the same thing

[ybrik222]

I'm assuming 3DS Max.

Man, but $30 000?

[morfman1990]

usually its an engine, an engine is a program but not really for the public. most companies code there own engines for the games they make for example the unreal engine or 2000 engine

[WiggyRap]

thnx alot

[ravespear1]

wow! so many things can be done in a year. amazing!

[Jakhama2mcmetz]

wow, great work! realy great work

[kukelz]

nice but what did the students do? Programming? Modelling? concept? both? Use an existing engine or ?

[CanOfSpam]

Everything. They do it all from scratch.

[kukelz]

4real? How do you know, you just think that or you have a good source?

[VancouverFilmSchool]

The focus in VFS Game Design is on the design - that is, the concepts/gameplay/etc. It's very much the 'big picture'. It also involves a working knowledge of all the things that might be handled by specific departments (e.g. art/animation, programming, audio) in a professional game studio.

What you see here is all done by the students, at times collaborating with students from other VFS programs like Sound Design.

[VancouverFilmSchool]

Also, of the games in this montage, many are based on Unreal Tournament (total conversion mods) but others are scratch-built in Flash, for example. All are completed (from beginning to presenting to an industry audience) in just a few months.

[kukelz]

cool..tnx a lot. How many years does this game design take?

[VancouverFilmSchool]

It's a one-year program. (Some students also take a year in our Foundation Visual Art & Design program to get ready.)

[0xXEliXx0]

no i'm pretty sure its using the unreal engine and some source engine

[Rizashi]

wow! impressive creativity straight through this demo reel!

damn competent students you got there.

[vanshma]

0:21 - 0:28 looks really fun!

[punkrocksknot]

"Over A thousand years in the future the black plague resurfaces but this time... there may be a cure." You might want a better story line... and there was a cure for the previous black plague...

[romzcrazy123]

I noticed the dinosaur game- I saw that like a year or two ago- looks pretty good. Now if they have the ability to put these on xbox live indie games, then I would buy quite a few of them

[peacefulshades]

Wow! This is fantastic.. I'm agreeing with ArbitratingMist... I am in America and want to go there too!

[routhoula]

wow are these realesed as freeware or payware or they are just concepts

[VancouverFilmSchool]

They are real PLAYABLE games (often working prototypes, as they are created by students in just a few short months). Most of them can currently be downloaded from the VFS site (visit Game Design and then Showcase), and we're working hard on adding the rest!

They are all free to download. Some require Unreal Tournament to play.

[spider853]

to VancouverFilmSchool: What language do they use for those games? Its pure C++ + OpenGL/DirectX or they are using some Engines?

[folgoraEX]

i am pretty sure its a engine

[ThaTyger]

Hmm the unreal engine always has this distinct feel to it, it's great looking but still every time I see a game on it I think "that the UT3 engine indeed", kind of takes away from the magic -_- Great work for 1 year work though

[CultistOfTheBeyond]

**somewhere

[ArbitratingMist]

I've always enjoyed the vast majority of students works that this channel provides. I'd love to be an animator, but not many schools offer that, where I am from. I also had no idea that VFS offered a one-year game design degree.

Is there a scholarship available to foreign students? I'm not TOO foreign, I'm afraid. I'm from America. Lol.

[xtrustmeimaliar]

I suddenly want to go to this school even more

[PilpherStory]

Hey whats the one with the dino D;?

[gusthelesswise]

That last one looked friggin awesome

[nater88dawg]

yea i was about to say the same

[peepeevagi]

...

So y'all found a cure for the futurespaceplauge?

[stitch1993]

some of these games actually look lik they could get published

[Thewaterofthepool]

omg where can we play these games at? XD

[PilpherStory]

Apparently they're all offered [to download free] off of their website, but I can't find the Dino one[sad-face]

[VancouverFilmSchool]

That one's called Foamzilla. Google will lead you the right way. (Requires Unreal Tournament 2004!)

[VancouverFilmSchool]

Many can be downloaded at vfsDOTcom/gamedesign - visit the Showcase section.

[PilpherStory]

Will the Unreal Tournament [2004] work off the website?

[HazyFilms]

this is just too cool

[UniqueOneShot]

Can someone from other country got into this School? I would love to go and learn stuff like this :D

[coumn]

sure everybody can go to a school , you just have to pay for.

[googboog]

yes... almost all the students in my class are international.

[VancouverFilmSchool]

Yes! Around half of our students come to VFS from somewhere other than Canada. Many from the U.S., and many from overseas as well.

[Tamerin213]

Really cool

[IronickProductions]

the last one with the black plague looked cool

[attstrpure]

Wow, these games look really good. I look forward to releases by the people that made these.

[wizardmagic2000]

Should have gone there instead of University of Calgary...

Then again, either way I would have ended up broke...

[sims2moviesmystyle]

wow, the games looks awesome

[icetoph]

hmm interesting. kapow!

[TabarnacosFilms]

okay so what are the games at 0:13 and 0.19 because they look like shadow of the colossus which is the best game I ever played and I would like to try that one ! title please :D

[VancouverFilmSchool]

It's called Bloom. Visit our website, go to Game Design and then Showcase. You'll find it.

[KnightsLantern]

Awesome! :o

[bluesuits]

Some of these were on the DVD Reel I got,

Still, I hope to go there for my post highschool education.

[stenchinator]

impressive, i wish we had this at brock lol

[XxxTayyxxX]

Brock Univearsity in Niagra?

I went there for that Youth Univearsity for my Grad Trip.