Nowy Sącz, Poland

Game Developer
(field of studies: Computer Science)

Bachelor's - engineer
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⇑Game Developer at WSB-NLU

Field of studies: Computer Science
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: computer science
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: www.wsb-nlu.edu.pl/en

⇑Why choose the Game Developer specialisation at WSB-NLU?

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Why study it:

Game Developer is a specialisation of the engineering degree in Computer Science at Akademia WSB-NLU in Nowy Sącz – seven semesters of full-time study on campus, Monday to Friday. WSB-NLU aims it at creative, open-minded people for whom playing games is not enough and who want to learn to program games and the artificial intelligence inside them.

Programme: game programming, animation and 3D

Besides mathematics and programming in C++, Java and C#, you study:

  • Game and Scenario Programming, and Advanced Game Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence Programming in Computer Games
  • Computer Animation and Animated Film
  • 3D Modelling and Visualisation, and Computer Graphics
  • Database Design and Embedded Systems

Specialisation: your own game, start to finish

The aim of the specialisation is to create your own game – from the design phase, through implementing the assumptions and creating graphic resources, to marketing and promoting it – following the rules used by game development teams. Along the way you carry out an engineering project, learn how teamwork works and practise project management. Lecturers are professionally active people who show how to turn theory into practice.

Placements: a game studio as patron

Industry links in brief

  • Patronindependent game studio iFun4all S.A.
  • TeachingiFun4all employees teach specialist subjects
  • Finishthe studies end with an internship and an engineering project

Languages: intermediate English

English classes at intermediate level are part of the Computer Science programme.

After graduation: games and beyond

Graduates are prepared to work in game development companies – creating games, programming AI in games, designing 3D models and making computer animations. The same skills are used in advertising, film and television production, animated films and the design of web and mobile environments and applications.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme pages at wsb-nlu.edu.pl.

⇑Test: Is Game Developer the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You have an idea for a new jumping mechanic. What do you do?

2. Your game crashes every time the player opens the inventory. How do you react?

3. How do you feel about maths such as vectors, angles and simple physics?

4. Playtesters say your level is confusing and boring. What do you think?

5. A 48-hour game jam is announced. Would you join?

6. You work with artists, designers and a sound designer. How does that sound?

7. Your game stutters on older laptops. What do you do?

8. The programme is taught in English, in a group with students from different countries. How do you feel about that?

9. When you play a game, what do you notice?

10. What motivates you most to study Game Developer?

⇑Definitions and quotes

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A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).
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I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan, as quoted in Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins : The Paradox of Innovation (2003), by Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes, p. 32.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne, in Essais (1580), as edited by Maurice Rat (1958), Book I, Ch. 23.
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George Will, in Men at Work : The Craft of Baseball (1990), p. 294.

Contact:

ul. Grunwaldzka 17
33-300 Nowy Sącz
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