After successful accreditation in 2020, the bachelor's degree program Game Design FTF VŠMU in Bratislava was opened for the first time in Slovakia.
Study plan Game design is one of the 11 study plans of the Faculty of Film and Television of the Academy of Performing Arts (FTF VSMU). It allows studying in a three-year bachelor's degree and two-year master´s degree.
The GD study at FTF is primarily about storytelling that incorporates philosophical and cinematic elements. Narrative games are characterized by the following characteristics: 1. Story is a central element involving moral dilemmas, philosophical questions, and plastic characters. 2. Philosophical themes explore philosophical issues such as the meaning of life, ethics, free will, and identity. 3. Cinematic elements using film techniques such as camera angles, lighting, music, and editing. 4. Interactive storytelling influences the course of the story through one's decisions and actions. 5. Emotional engagement with an emphasis on identification with the fates of the characters and the development of the story.
The study is based on the implementation of a number of professional exercises, which, starting from the first to the last year of study, document the professional growth of students in the field of storytelling in game design with cinematic means of expression and in other areas related to virtual reality, visual effects, video mapping, interaction in public space, advertising space, film and video production media space.
Part of the VFXHD is the Visual Effects Department 
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Students of the program Game design
