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Game Engineering Minor

Customize Your Degree to Fit the Gaming, Simulation and Graphics Industry.

Our Alumni Have Careers As:

Implement artwork and animations into game systems while ensuring everything displays and runs in real-time.

Craft services that run synchronously and persistently on gaming servers.
Translate impactful special effects into real-time environments often using particle systems.
Work on graphics programming teams to design and maintain rendering algorithms (drawing the final scene to the screen) focusing on real-time output.

 

Learn To

Understand game engine subsystems theory on collision, physics, animation, audio and rendering

Implement mathematical models for collisions, physics, animation systems, audio and rendering

Work within multiple gaming APIs and engines, i.e. OpenGL, DirectX, Unreal, Unity

Choose correct algorithms and APIs to optimize running software on different hardware

Create programs using the full game loop sequence of processing user input, updating the system and rendering

Game Engineering Minor Program Overview

Exciting Career Opportunities

The game engineering minor prepares you to design and program within game engines through the study of game theory, graphics, physics and real time programming. This minor is a great fit if you want to pursue career or graduate school opportunities in the gaming, visual effects, simulation, virtual reality or graphics industries. 

This minor builds on computing and math coursework completed through other majors and minors. The game engineering minor combines computer science, mathematics, physics, and instructional technology topics to learn in detail how digital environments are created, real world phenomena are simulated on a computer and real-time user interactions are implemented.

How Do I Minor in Game Engineering?

Any student at UNCW can declare the game engineering minor once they have declared their major. The courses for this minor do have CSC and MAT prefix course pre-requisites. Depending on your major, you may need to complete extra classes to fulfill all of the game engineering minor requirements. Speak to your advisor to plan out your academic path in this minor.

For more information, contact Jeremy Roberts.

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Sample Courses

sample courses
MIT 150 Game Theory
CSC 370 Computer Graphics
CSC 371 Game Engine Programming
CSC 421  Game Development
CSC 461 Virtual Reality
CSC 470 Real Time Programming for Gaming Systems
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