GAM 381 — GAME SPRINT STUDIO (CUR-274)
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 381
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
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: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/gam
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
In this rigorous, hands-on course, students work in small, multidisciplinary teams to design, prototype, and refine a short-form game from concept to completion. Through iterative development, structured critique, and real-world constraints, students cultivate their ability to balance creativity with feasibility. Emphasizing collaboration across design, programming, art, and audio, the course challenges students to problem-solve rapidly, adapt to feedback, and refine their work into a polished, cohesive experience. By navigating production cycles, scope limitations, and player expectations, they develop agile workflows, foster cross-disciplinary communication, and create focused, compelling games within tight creative and technical constraints.
Hardware relevance
Discovery pass: harvest include: signals: hands[- ]on, prototype
Notes
Catalog course key: GAM 381.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000213←depaul/SRC-000659(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-GAM-381.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-GAM-381.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.