Embark on a captivating journey through gaming history with this online course, tracing the evolution from ancient board games to modern board and arcade games.
Embark on a captivating journey through gaming history with this online course, tracing the evolution from ancient board games to modern board and arcade games.
This course explores the captivating history of game design, examining the features and applications of the earliest video games, as well as the development of second-generation video game consoles from the 1970s and 1980s.
You will also discover how the American video game industry crash of 1983 paved the way for game developers and game companies around the world—particularly Nintendo and Sega from Japan—to dominate the video game market of the late 1980s and develop the third generation of consoles.
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This course is based on the Game Design & VFX School at LaSalle College’s Vancouver campus, crowned the #1 undergraduate school in Canada for video game design by the Princeton Review 10 years in a row.
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