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Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.

<ul><li>The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.</li>
	<li>You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.</li>
</ul>

Admission

<ul><li>Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.</li>
	<li>Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
	<ul><li>Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.</li>
	</ul></li>
	<li>If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.</li>
	<li>Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place</li>
	<li>If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 1048.</li>
	<li>The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.</li>
</ul>

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Application for admission

Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:

<ul><li>Complete the online admission form.</li>
	<li>Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.</li>
	<li>Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
	<ul><li><a href="https://www.bsm.upf.edu/documents/admission-letter-video-upf-bsm-en.pdf" target="_blank">Presentation letter or video</a></li>
		<li>CV</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport</li>
		<li>Passport-size photo (jpg format)</li>
	</ul></li>
</ul>Additional documents may be requested in certain cases. 
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.

Complete your application within the next admission rounds:

The training is structured in three blocks. A first common block where you will learn the fundamental principles for the creation of video games, which will later help you to propose projects with a solid methodology. This training will be essential for both programmers and designers or artists. 
In the second block, you must specialize in the role of programmer or designer to receive specific training in their field of action: the creation of the code of a video game or the design and development of content (graphics, sound, etc.). 
The third block corresponds to the module of the final work, in which a collaborative project between the two profiles will be carried out.

Common subjects

Design Speciality

Programming Speciality

Project

The information contained in these pages is for information purposes only and may be subject to change in the adaptation of each academic year. The definitive guide will be available to students in the virtual space before the start of each subject.

Note on the Curriculum

<ul><li>Joan Abadia 
	Founder and Lead Programmer at Novarama. 
	Bachelor in Telecommunications Engineering. 
	Adjunct lecturer in the Information Technology and Communications Department at Pompeu Fabra University. He was also a technology developer at Realidad Aumentada.</li>
	<li>Oscar Civit 
	Master in Management, Marketing and PR from ESERP Business School. 
	Communication and Public Relations Manager at Ubisoft Barcelona.</li>
	<li>Alberto Díaz 
	Director of Art at Novarama. 
	Lecturer of 3D Art and Art Coordinator for the Master in Video Game Creation at Pompeu Fabra University.</li>
	<li>Marc De Miquel Puchades 
	Lead Animator at Novarama. 
	Bachelor in Computer Engineering from La Salle Bonanova. 
	Lecturer in Animation.</li>
</ul>

Collaborating faculty

The Master is directed by Daniel Sánchez-Crespo, founder and CEO of Novarama. The extraordinary team of teachers is made up of programmers, artists, and professionals from leading companies in the video game industry, such as Unreal, Digital Legends, 5 Ants, Mercury Systems, or Novarama.

<ul><li>Creatives</li>
	<li>Screenwriters</li>
	<li> Art Directors</li>
	<li>Visual designers</li>
	<li>Character and object modellers</li>
	<li> Scenario creators</li>
	<li>Sound and FX</li>
	<li> Video game programmers</li>
	<li>Graphic programmers</li>
	<li>Production</li>
	<li>Artificial intelligence</li>
	<li>Logic</li>
	<li>Gameplay</li>
	<li>Entrepreneurship, and more.</li>
</ul>

In order to get a job in the video game industry you will be able to present the individual and group projects that you will have undertaken during the master's degree.

The course's teaching staff is made up of artists and professionals from leading companies in the video game industry, who can help you find the professional project you are pursuing.

Students from other courses work at Sony Pictures Canada and both programmers and animators develop video games or mobile games at Rockstar (Red Dead Redemption II), Nomada Studio (Gris), Digital Legends, EA, Mercury Steam, or Ubisoft, among others. Other students have won national and international awards or have created studies with video games developed in the master's degree (Lince Works).

Turn your passion into an in demand profession and become part of an industry growing by more than 10% annually in Spain in the last decade, and which already has a turnover greater than music and cinema.

In the master you will create a video game working with Unreal and developing your own engine, based on the two itineraries, according to your profile: artistic directors (creative aspects, plot conceptualization, visual design, modelling of characters, settings, objects, sound, etc.) and expert video game programmers (technical aspects, production, graphic programming, artificial intelligence, logic, etc.).

You will leave with different individual and group projects with which you can get work in studios and publishers. Students from previous courses now work as professionals at Sony Pictures Canada, and both programmers and animators develop video games at Rockstar (Red Dead Redemption II), Nomada Studio (Gris), Digital Legends, EA, Mercury Steam, or Ubisoft, among others. Some students have won national and international awards or have created studies with videogames developed in the master (Lince Works).

Average number of students per course

The master is an experience that will change your life in many ways:

<ul><li>Professionally, you will enter the video game industry, something that you are passionate about and where you have always wanted to develop your professional career.</li>
	<li>Personally and culturally, you will grow thanks to the diversity of nationalities that you will find in the classroom, since we have international students from different countries.</li>
	<li>You will learn from students with different profiles thanks to the double itinerary: you will share classroom and experiences with artistic profiles (Audiovisual Communication, Fine Arts, Architecture, Graphic Design, etc.) and programming (engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, telcos, etc.).</li>
</ul>

We emphasize the value of teamwork from day one, just as it happens in the video game industry. During the course you will carry out 5 different projects:

<ul><li>Design Project (in pairs, Unreal)</li>
	<li>Art Project (in pairs, 3DSMax)</li>
	<li> Production Project (in pairs, Excel/Word)</li>
	<li> Personal project (art or code)</li>
	<li>Final Project (in a team of artists and programmers)</li>
</ul><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9QSdJhees" target="_blank">Show video</a>

2 specialization pathways

Fully practical approach

Professionally active teaching staff from the sector

Find work thanks to the projects

Master in Videogames: Design, Creation and Programming

Máster en Videojuegos: Diseño, Creación y Programación

The Master in Videogames: Design, Creation and Programming at the UPF Barcelona School of Management has been organized 20 times and is a reference in the videogame industry. It includes classes with programmers, artists, and professionals from companies such as Unreal, Digital Legends, 5 Ants, Mercury Steam, or Novarama. You will learn the latest project management techniques from the best video game professionals and they will teach you to work in a team, as well as to structure your project using milestones or deliverables, in the same way, that the industry works.

The master includes classes with programmers, artists, and professionals with experience in video game design and development such as Unreal, Digital Legends, 5 Ants, Mercury Systems, or Novarama.

Connection with the video game industry

Some alumni have founded companies based on the video game they developed during the master's degree.

We give you the keys to launch your own studio

The video game industry is the first in terms of audiovisual and interactive entertainment in Spain and continues to grow strongly and constantly.

Booming profession and industry

Several of the projects designed and developed by students from previous master's courses have been nominated and won at Artfutura, at the 2014 Gamelab National Awards, at the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco and at the 2013 Indie DB.

Nationally and internationally awarded

The master is directed by Daniel Sánchez-Crespo, CEO of Novarama, the first company in Spain to develop video games for Sony.

Prestige

Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.

Study at an accredited school

In the master, you will create a video game working with Unreal and developing your own engine, based on the 2 itineraries according to profile: artistic directors (creative aspects, plot conceptualization, visual design, modelling of characters, settings, objects, sound, etc.) and expert videogame programmers (technical aspects, production, graphic programming, artificial intelligence, logic, etc.). You will finish with different individual and group projects with which to get work in the main studios and publishers.

During the course you will learn about the different phases of creating a video game:

<ul><li>You will professionally handle all the tools of videogame design, animation, programming, art, and management.</li>
	<li>You will master the technical particularities of the different supports and consoles.</li>
	<li>You will acquire key knowledge about game marketing and distribution.</li>
</ul>We have alumni animators working at Sony Pictures Canada and both programmers and animators developing video games at Rockstar (Red Dead Redemption II), Nomada Studio (Gris), Digital Legends, EA, Mercury Steam or Ubisoft, among others. Others have won national and international awards or have created studies with video games developed in the master's degree (Lince Works).

In the end, you will have developed a professional project with which to launch yourself into the labour market and win prizes, such as the large number of students who have won awards in prestigious competitions such as:

<ul><li>Independent Games Festival</li>
	<li>ArtFutura</li>
	<li>Creanimax</li>
	<li>Three-Headed Monkey Awards 
	 </li>
</ul>The Master in Videogames is endorsed by Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Spanish university and the 15th best university in the world (of those with less than 50 years), according to the Times Higher Education ranking. In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally.

Turn your passion for the game into an in demand profession and become part of the video game industry, which has grown more than 10% annually in Spain in the last decade, with a turnover that already exceeds the music and cinema sectors.

If you are a member of our alumni associations or of one of our partner universities, we offer you a series of applicable discounts on the amount of tuition for your program.

Alumni discounts 

If you are a member or family member of an employee of the UPF group or belonged to the collaborating institutions of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, you can enjoy a series of applicable discounts on the tuition fees for your program.

UPF Employee Discounts

If you are alumni of one of our Partner Universities, you are entitled to a discount of 10% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduate program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).

*Discount not compatible with other scholarships, discounts and reductions.

UPF Partner Latinoamerican Universities Discount

Apply for our Merit Based Scholarship, awarded to those who prove they have talent and motivation.

Merit Based Scholarship

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