DESMA 3Game Design
Design|Media Arts · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Limited to high school students. Development of fundamental skills to create games and game art that express personal and subjective approach to game making. Artistic vision combined with technological expertise to teach students fundamentals of designing games, building game worlds, creating game characters, and making playable games for mobile platforms. Use of current software and technology, including Maya and Unity3D. Creation of game projects that students exhibit and can use for college applications. Offered only as part of UCLA Game Lab Summer Institute.
P/NP grading.
When it runs
- Summer 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.