This is the last leg of your game design educational challenge - crafting a stand-out professional portfolio.
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This is the last leg of your game design educational challenge - crafting a stand-out professional portfolio that will be key in the next steps of your journey. Guided by an expert game designer, you'll polish your professional portfolio, refine self-promotion skills, and create a show-stopping final capstone project in the form of a fully playable game. Upon program completion, you'll be ready to dive straight into the gaming industry.
The SMU x Flatiron School difference:
Career services is included with each capstone and bootcamp program. Designed by and for tech professionals, you'll experience a full technical interview process from start to finish, getting direct and personalized feedback each step of the way. Visit the career services page to learn more about the full process.
Program prerequisites: Game Design Essentials, Game Design Foundations I, Game Design Foundations II.
Get ready to make your mark as a game designer.
Game Design Capstone - 12 weeks
This final course is dedicated to getting you job-ready! With your instructor’s guidance, you’ll polish your best work for your portfolio and learn how to develop your competitive edge, market yourself, and make the best possible impression in front of employers. You'll also receive additional 1-on-1 career support, portfolio reviews, and industry insights from your dedicated career coach.
What you'll learn:
In addition to your capstone project, here's the weekly breakdown:
Flexible small group classes are the best way to learn from top industry instructors in a fun, collaborative environment, while still getting plenty of personalized feedback.
Upfront -
$4,500
Pay as You Go
$5,000
3 monthly payments of $1,667
Yes! Upon the completion of each program in the pathway, you will receive a Credly digital badge from SMU and a certificate from Flatiron School. Digital badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and certificates can be displayed on portfolio websites and social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Thousands of our community members use their program certificates and badges to demonstrate skills to potential employers — including our hiring partners — along with their LinkedIn networks. Our curriculum is powered by Flatiron School, whose programs are well-regarded by many top employers, who contribute to our curriculum, hire our community, and partner with us to train their own teams.
Whether you want to build games, design products, prevent the next cyber attack, or create the next internet-breaking AI, we provide the training to bring your ideas to life.
Let's build your future together.