GAM 469 — VIRTUAL REALITY GAME DEVELOPMENT (CUR-096)

Summary 🟢 ✓

• Resource type: course
• Owner Unit: Game Development
• College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
• Catalog: GAM 469
• Last Verified: 2026-05-28

Course access

• Level: green (Open Enrollment)
• Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
• Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description

Verification

• Status: verified_catalog_course (✓)
• Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
• Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/gam
• Last verified: 2026-05-28

Catalog description

In this workshop students cultivate the skills to design, program, and develop VR (virtual reality) games. Students learn about the unique affordances and design opportunities inherent to the platform. Students are exposed to emerging technologies that transform and enhance virtual reality development such as new capabilities of hand and gesture tracking as well as generative artificial intelligence. Students collaboratively develop cutting-edge VR toys and games using the studio model in which each student adopts a professional role on the team such as programmer, designer, artist, director, etc. Class time consists of lectures, workshops, workdays, playtests, critiques, and class discussions.

Hardware relevance

Graduate virtual reality game development.

Notes

Catalog course key: GAM 469. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.