Game Design

Game Design
Overview

Bloomfield College features the No. 1 game design program in New Jerseyaccording to The Princeton Reviewand is a Top 50 program nationwide.

Each year the college holds Global Game Jam, which sees contestants attempt to create a stand-alone game in just 48 hours. In addition, the college is entering the world of Esports and will feature three teams of five students starting in Spring 2019.

When you major in game design, you’ll build the knowledge and hands-on skills to become an expert game designer or developer. If you have a passion for games and want to turn it into a profession, Bloomfield’s game design major is a good fit for you.

Please review therecommended sequences of courses.

  • Bloomfield College's game design program is the No. 2 program in the state.
  • The college is starting an Esports team in Spring 2019.
  • The college hosts Global Game Jame each year.
  • The game design program is practice-orientated and focuses on real projects.
  • You’ll work on collaborative team-based projects that mimic real-world game development.
  • More than half of game design students join the Game Development Club which work together to create two games every semester.

Bloomfield College features the No. 1 game design program in New Jerseyaccording to The Princeton Reviewand is a Top 50 program nationwide.

Each year the college holds Global Game Jam, which sees contestants attempt to create a stand-alone game in just 48 hours. In addition, the college is entering the world of Esports and will feature three teams of five students starting in Spring 2019.

When you major in game design, you’ll build the knowledge and hands-on skills to become an expert game designer or developer. If you have a passion for games and want to turn it into a profession, Bloomfield’s game design major is a good fit for you.

Please review therecommended sequences of courses.

Bloomfield College features the No. 1 game design program in New Jerseyaccording to The Princeton Reviewand is a Top 50 program nationwide.

Each year the college holds Global Game Jam, which sees contestants attempt to create a stand-alone game in just 48 hours. In addition, the college is entering the world of Esports and will feature three teams of five students starting in Spring 2019.

When you major in game design, you’ll build the knowledge and hands-on skills to become an expert game designer or developer. If you have a passion for games and want to turn it into a profession, Bloomfield’s game design major is a good fit for you.

Please review therecommended sequences of courses.

Game Design

Division

Creative Arts and Technology

Program Type

Major
General Education Requirements
FYS
100
MTH
130
General Education Electives Requirements
Core Requirements
CAT
121
CAT
108
CAT
120
CAT
217
CAT
134
CAT
198
CAT
194
CAT
253
CAT
237
CAT
238
CAT
264
CAT
408
CAT
420

Additional Information

Many courses have prerequisites which are listed in the course description. Please be sure that necessary prerequisites have been taken before enrolling in any course.

Related Majors
Animation 2D
Animation 3D
Expanded Media
Game Programming
Graphic Design
Interactive Multimedia & Worldwide Web
Music Technology

游戏设计推荐一系列的课程

First Year
Fall
FYS
100
CAT
121
CAT
108
Spring
MTH
130
CAT
253
Sophomore Year
Fall
CAT
120
CAT
194
MTH
140
Spring
CAT
264
Junior Year
Fall
CAT
237
Spring
CAT
308
大四
Fall
CAT
380
CAT
408
Spring
CAT
420

AT BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE EACH COURSE UNIT IS EQUIVALENT TO 4 CREDITS, .5 COURSE UNIT IS EQUIVALENT TO 2 CREDITS.

*TAKE TWO (2) CAT COURSE UNITS AT THE 100 LEVEL OR HIGHER

TWO (2) WRITING INTENSIVE COURSES REQUIRED

FOUR (4) GENERAL EDUCATION COURSE UNITS MUST BE NUMBERED 200 OR HIGHER.
CAT 101Creative Arts Workshop
CAT 105Frida Kahlo And The Mexican Folk Tradition
CAT 106Experiments In Digital/Analog Media
CAT 107Introduction To Music Technology
CAT 108Introduction To Game Design
CAT 113African-American Tradition Workshop
CAT 115Media Tools
CAT 116Movement For Animators And Filmmakers
CAT 117Process and Interaction: An Introduction
CAT 118Tap Dance
CAT 120Drawing I
CAT 121Foundation Studio
CAT 124Dance Jam I
CAT 125Dance Jam II
CAT 126Digital Photography
CAT 134Drawing for 2D Animation
CAT 189Bloomfield College Concert Choir
CAT 190Movement Theater Project
CAT 191Beginning Piano I
CAT 192Beginning Piano II
CAT 193Introduction To Acting
CAT 1943D Design
CAT 195Circus Arts
CAT 198Design I
CAT 199Design II
CAT 200Music Theory I
CAT 201Music Theory II
CAT 202World Theatre
CAT 203World Art I
CAT 204World Music
CAT 205Basic Sequencing
CAT 206Screenwriting
CAT 207Art Appreciation
CAT 210Digital Audio Engineering I (Recording)
CAT 211Artists of the 20th Century
CAT 213Musical Improvisation
CAT 214Modern Art Of Latin America: 1900-1950
CAT 215Level Design I
CAT 216The History Of African-American Art
CAT 217Drawing II
CAT 218Painting
CAT 222Global Art History
猫224Music Of The United States: The African-American Influence
CAT 227Silkscreen
CAT 2283D Stop-Motion Animation
CAT 230History Of Animation
CAT 231Chinese Culture and Language
CAT 232Japanese Culture And Language
CAT 233Korean Culture And Language
CAT 235World Art II
CAT 236Visual Design for Games
CAT 237Group Game Project I
CAT 238Introduction To Game Programming
CAT 241Pre-Production And 2D Animation
CAT 243Music And The Moving Image
CAT 244Visual Communications
CAT 247Design Thinking and Practice
CAT 249Special Topics in Cinema
CAT 250Selected Topics In Technology
CAT 251Hip Hop Theory
CAT 253Digital Game Design
CAT 256Digital Media Writing
CAT 257Video I
CAT 258Video II
CAT 259Media Histories
CAT 261Interaction And Interface: Introduction To Physical Computing
CAT 2632D & 3D Digital Drawing for Graphics Production
CAT 264Computer Imaging
CAT 265Tabletop Game Design
CAT 266African-American Performance History
CAT 270Web Design I
CAT 276Advanced Photography
CAT 278Digital Publishing
CAT 279Studio Sculpture
CAT 286Sound Design I: Audio For Video I
CAT 288Improvisational Ensemble Acting
CAT 289Boomfield College Chamber Choir
CAT 292Printmaking
CAT 293Studio Music I
CAT 294Studio Music II
CAT 299Performing Arts Production I
CAT 300MIDI Composition And Production I
CAT 301Composition and MIDI Programming II
CAT 302Patchwork: A Quilter's Look At The World
CAT 303Television And Film Acting
CAT 304Motion Graphics
CAT 305Sound Design II: Audio For Video II
CAT 308Group Game Project II
CAT 310Digital Audio Engineering II (Mixing)
CAT 311业务的图形
CAT 314Level Design II
CAT 315Art Methods Pre K-12
CAT 317Studio Drawing
CAT 323Music Industry Essentials
CAT 327Game Programming Studio
CAT 328Artificial Intelligence for Games
CAT 329Character Design
CAT 330Advanced Painting Workshop
CAT 331Life Drawing/Painting
CAT 332Life Drawing For Motion
CAT 333Global Arts: Up-Close And In Person
CAT 336Designing Environments for Story
CAT 343Select Ensemble
CAT 350Selected Topics In The Fine And Performing Arts
CAT 352Selected Topics In Technology
CAT 360Selected Topics In Technology
CAT 3613D Modeling
CAT 362Typography
CAT 363Advertising Concepts and Design
CAT 364Motion Capture With Motionbuilder
CAT 365Art in an Interdisciplinary Space
CAT 366Motion Design
CAT 368Immersive Design
CAT 369Game Theory and Analysis
CAT 370Advanced Web Design
CAT 371Acting II: Scene Study
CAT 3723D Animation
CAT 380Internship I
CAT 392Studio Media Workshop
CAT 399Performing Arts Production II
CAT 400Pre-Capstone-Graphics
CAT 401Advanced Synthesizer Programming & Electronic Music
CAT 402Precapstone-Developing a Recording Project
CAT 403Preproduction Capstone-Animation
CAT 404Advanced Project Seminar
CAT 406Preparing The Demo Reel
CAT 407Advanced Life Drawing for Motion
CAT 408Pre-Capstone: Game Development
CAT 409Pre-Capstone: Expanded Media
CAT 410Digital Audio Engineering III (Practicum)
CAT 420Capstone Project I
CAT 421Capstone Project II
CAT 430Internship II
CAT 471Advanced 3D Animation
GJ Lee
GJ Lee
Associate Professor, Coordinator of Game Development
Year Joined: 2017
  • B.F.A.,
    New Jersey City University
  • M.P.S., ITP,
    Tish School of Arts
Phone: 973-748-9000 ext. 1402
Office:Center for Technology and Creativity , Room107
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GJ Lee

BFA, New Jersey City University
MPS, ITP, Tish School of Arts

GJ Lee is a multidisciplinary artist and game designer. She uses a practiced-based research approach to explore and understand complex subjects. The results mostly take on the form of games, installations, and performances. Her works and collaborations have been exhibited and played at Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, La Gaite Lyrique, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The Museum of the Moving Image.

She is the co-founder of The Sheep’s Meow, an independent game development studio and community organization that focuses on making game creation inclusive and accessible. She’s co-organized and produced community-driven events such as the NJ Arcade and NYC Arcade– some of which are the largest of their kind.

She has a BFA in Painting and Drawing with a co-major in Mathematics from NJCU and an MPS from NYU Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Courses taught:
CAT 209 - Digital Game Design
CAT 208 - Visual Design for Games
CAT 408 - Pre-Capstone: Game Development
CAT 420 - Capstone
Subject(s): Game Design, Game Programming
Blake Andrews portrait
Blake Andrews
Adjunct Lecturer
Year Joined: 2018
  • B.A.
    Pratt Institute
  • M.A.
    New York University
Phone: 973-748-9000 ext.
Office:Center for Technology and Creativity
Email
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Blake Andrews is a game designer, illustrator, animator, and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. Blake has been publishing short experimental web games since 2013 on websites likeitch.ioand Glorious Trainwrecks. Their most publicized game, Scrapeboard (featured at alt.ctrl.gdc & MAGFest, mentioned in The New Yorker, and appearing in a Michael Reeves video), is an alternative controller game where players ride a real skateboard to defeat enemies. They have taught game design at Bloomfield College, Pratt Institute, and New York University. Blake has been involved with installations and events at New York’s independent video game arcades, Babycastles, Wonderville, and Red Parry.
Subject(s): Game Design, Game Programming
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Samuel Leigh
Lecturer
Year Joined: 2022
Phone: 973-748-9000 ext.
Email
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Samuel Leigh is a professional Game Designer / Programmer who specializes in creating Interactive Fiction and experimental multiplayer games in the Unity game engine. He has worked as a freelance programmer for numerous startups in NYC as well as at ViacomCBS on Nick Jr properties.
Subject(s): Game Design, Game Programming
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RJ Reyes
Lecturer
Year Joined: 2021
Phone: 973-748-9000 ext.
Email
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RJ Reyes has worked in the video games industry since 2004. He started as a QA tester in THQ, and in 2008 he got his first production job in Sierra Online / Vivendi Games. Since 2008, he’s worked as a producer for companies both big and small, including Amazon Games, Disney, Spin Master Toys, Mattel, and multiple indie studios.

RJ于2020年开始他的职业生涯作为一个游戏开发教育家. He enjoys teaching new devs about the basics of game development and what to expect in the industry, and he especially enjoys helping devs advance their careers.
Subject(s): Game Design, Game Programming
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Steven Yoo
Adjunct Lecturer
Year Joined: 2022
  • MS in Integrated Digital Media, BS in Computer Engineering
    New York University Tandon School of Engineering, SUNY Albany
Phone: 973-748-9000 ext.
Email
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Steven Yoo graduated from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in 2020 with an MS in Integrated Digital Media. He also holds a BS in Computer Engineering from SUNY Albany. Before joining the department, he developed and taught Game Design & AR/VR for 3 years at New York University and SUNY Westchester.
Steven uses his passion for teaching and learning to become knowledgeable with current trends and technology to help his students to learn the latest tools to make their game and AR/VR development easier. Steven's research interests lie in the area of using new interactive media and technology to enhance user experience and engagement. Emerging technologies in game design, virtual reality, augmented reality and mobile devices offer exciting new possibilities for presenting user experience and engagement.
Subject(s): Game Design, Game Programming
  • Demonstrate literacy in their creative discipline, including current technologies, analog techniques, concepts and practices, as well as the historical and cultural contexts.
  • Examine and assess work based on critique, and receive, with openness, critiques of their own work.
  • Organize and contribute to an interdisciplinary team.
  • Assemble a portfolio that demonstrates technical and intellectual competence in their creative discipline and the ability to develop a work from initial design to completion.
  • Exhibit professional skills and protocols required of creatives and entrepreneurs, in the field and in a rapidly changing professional environment.
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