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

This video features clips from playable games created by students in the one-year Game Design program at Vancouver Film School. Many of the games can be downloaded for free at http://vfs.com/gallery.php?id=14&category_id=60 with more to come!

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Gaming

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• VFS
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• film
• school
• game
• design
• video
• games
• gaming
• game-design
• video-games
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• trailer
• demo
• action
• arcade
• fantasy

[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.

[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.

[WiggyRap]

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

[ravespear1]

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

[chrispen9]

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

[WiggyRap]

thnx alot

[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

[ybrik222]

I'm assuming 3DS Max.

Man, but $30 000?

[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.

[therealnoz]

I was thinking the same thing

[Jakhama2mcmetz]

wow, great work! realy great work

[PilpherStory]

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

[VancouverFilmSchool]

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

[kukelz]

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

[0xXEliXx0]

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

[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.

[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.