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Department of Game Development – The Game School

The Game School educates innovative creators of games and digital art and animation, as well as computer programmers within a wide range, including artificial intelligence. The Game School offers leading expertise in VR and AR, and it operates a fully rigged motion capture studio located at PARK in Hamar.

A gathering of small photos illustrating different games that students at the Game School have made.

In addition to close collaboration with the public and private sectors, the Game School collaborates through AR, VR and game projects with several faculties at INN University, as well as other academic institutions in Norway and abroad. All projects aim to build capacity for working life. 

Currently, the department is growing rapidly and has approximately 300 students and 25 employees in addition to part-time lecturers and guest lecturers. The academic community is international and interdisciplinary, with both a practice-oriented and theoretical scientific focus. 

The Game School offers the following programmes:

Read more about the study programmes 

Two dinosaur figures in a jungle-like environment. The picture is collected from a game made at the Game School.
Illustration: Stefan William Rudebjer
A mermaid sitting in an underwater world.
Illustration: Carla Cerutti
AI-generated photo of a robot in an interview setting.
Illustration: Dall-E