Diploma of Digital and Interactive Games - ICT50215
Academy of Interactive Entertainment
Type of institution: University/Higher Education Institution
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 02406F (ACT); 02619D (VIC); 03108G (NSW)
This qualification is part of the Information and Communications Technology Training Package. It provides the skills and knowledge for an individual to be competent in a variety of skill areas within the digital and interactive games industry. It provides an opportunity to develop the design, graphic/digital media and programming skills required in the development of digital games briefs, either as a small independent specialist or as part of a larger team. The qualification also provides opportunities to work in new and emerging games genres, such as online game development, mobile device gaming, interactive internet and TV game development.
Structure
- 16 units: 5 core
- 11 elective
Subjects
- Work effectively in the digital media industry
- Develop website information architecture
- Develop complex 3-D software for games and interactive media
- Develop intermediate 3-D software for games and interactive media
- Animate a 3-D character for digital games
- Complete digital editing for the 3-D and digital effects environment
- Design digital simulations
- Apply advanced object-oriented language skills
- Match ICT needs with the strategic direction of the enterprise
- Create technical documentation
- Apply digital texturing for the 3-D environment in digital games
- Design and create models for a 3-D and digital effects environment
- Analyse business opportunities in the digital games environment
- Design and create advanced particles, fluids and bodies for 3-D digital effects
- Create and combine 3-D digital games and components
- Collaborate in the design of 3-D game levels and environments
- Create design concepts for digital games and 3-D media
- Prepare games for different platforms and delivery modes
- Manage testing of games and interactive media
- Design interactive 3-D applications for scientific and mathematical modelling
- Create and implement designs for a 3-D games environment
- Create interactive 3-D environments for digital games
- Produce basic client-side script for dynamic web pages
- Originate and develop concepts
- Create games for mobile devices
- Use structured query language
- Review developed software
- Design e-learning resources
- Perform advanced sound editing
- Complete compositing to create elements for the 3-D and digital effects environment
- Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
- Build a database to support a computer game
- Design web environments
- Identify and manage the implementation of current industry specific technologies
- Apply advanced programming skills in another language
- Manage interactive media production
- Create a markup language document to specification
- Integrate multiple data sources into interactive 3-D environments
- Create complex 3-D characters for games
- Manage technical art and rigging in 3-D animation
- Create a complex 3-D interactive computer game
- Manage ICT projects
- Animate physical attributes of models and elements
- Integrate database with online game
- Develop and implement physics in a 3-D digital game
- Create complex code for mobile game devices
- Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS consultation and participation processes
- Produce a digital animation sequence
