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Video Games

Develop your artistic and technical skills with a comprehensive 4-year course after the preparatory year, combining theoretical and practical learning to make you an expert in video game design and production.

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  • PERIOD

    1 year full-time classroom training

  • HOURS OF LESSONS/YEAR

    1000 hours of production monitoring for games and themed Masterclasses

  • assessment

    Ongoing assessment of advances in video games under professional conditions.

  • certificate evaluation

    Workplace situations as part of an overall project to create a video game, enabling all the skills in the certification to be assessed
    Oral presentations and reflective feedback in front of professionals

  • Internship

    8 weeks minimum between 3rd and/or 4th year

Year 4

Video Game Professional Cycle

The culmination of your apprenticeship, this final year of the cycle is the culmination of intensive practice and hard work over 4 years.

Because you have mastered the artistic and technical skills inherent in your chosen speciality, this year is devoted to the group production of a complete video game prototype, presented at the end of the year to a jury of hand-picked professionals.

At ESMA we take
success seriously.

  • 100% Success rate (2023)

  • 81% Overall job entry rate at 6 months (2022)

  • 82% Rate of entry into the target occupation after 2 years (2021)

What does the final year involve?

Join the big boys of the video games industry

Dedicated exclusively to making your video game, 4th year is the final destination of your course at ESMA.

In real-life professional conditions, using cutting-edge software and infrastructures, you will design your own entire production.

From identity to game design, from storytelling to gameplay, from prototyping to development, you will put into practice all the skills and know-how you have acquired throughout the course.

At the end of the course, you’ll be ready to join a team of experts in a company.

What’s your next big success in the world of gaming?

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Highlights of the year

  • Designing the end-of-studies game as a team

    The students come up with innovative game concepts, gameplay mechanics and storytelling.

  • Prototype Gameplay and Art Direction

    Once the concepts have been chosen, the students enter the prototyping / research and development phase.

  • Meeting with professionals

    All the student teams are supported by production sponsors from the industry.

  • Professional simulations

    Dedicated room accessible during office hours, meeting rooms, daily reviews with permanent teachers.

  • Grand Prix

    Awards ceremony following the screening of the video games, meeting with professionals.

Validation of the Video Game Professional Certification

This professional certification is the result of a rigorous process that will enable you to validate 5 blocks of skills, one of which corresponds to your option.

Professional certification is obtained by validating blocks of skills 1 to 4 1 optional block 5 or 6:

  • BLOCK 1: Propose a game concept to a sponsor
  • BLOCK 2: Design and prototype a game
  • BLOCK 3: Coordinating the various stages in the production of a video game
  • BLOCK 4: Controlling the quality of the player experience
  • BLOCK 5 : (Game Art option) : Produce the graphic elements of a game

OR

  • BLOCK 6: (Gameplay Programming option): Creating the gameplay elements of a game

Title RNCP38806 – Concepteur de jeux vidéo – Game Designer, Level 6 , registered in the répertoire national des certifications professionnelle, by decision of the Director General of France Compétences dated 27/03/2024.

The teaching and assessment methods may be adapted to compensate for any disability, in accordance with the RNCP reference framework

More information on France Compétences

The achievements
of students

Creative excellence is their leitmotiv

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Any other questions?

For further information, please contact the campus education officers.

The curriculum

Video Game

A preparatory year for the RNCP Level 6 qualification (equivalent to bac+4)