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LEARN TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN GAMES

Video Game Design & Development | 18 Months

CAREERS

CAREER OUTCOMES

Receive professional training to work as a:

Game Play Programmer
Game AI Programmer
Game Network Programmer
Quality Assurance Tester
Game Designer
Project Manager

OUR GRADUATES ARE WORKING IN THE INDUSTRY

STATS

Ontario

is the province home to the most video game companies in Canada

800+

active video game companies currently operate in Canada

Source: Entertainment Software Association of Canada

Employed 34,000+

full-time equivalents

Generated $5.1B

in revenue.

Source: SAC Report 2024

STUDENTS IN ACTION

Toronto Film School’s game design students took home first place in the Best Artistic category and second place in the Best Technical category at the 2025 Level Up Showcase with their game Hazardous Hardware.

At the 2023 Level Up Showcase competition, Toronto Film School’s video game capstone project, Infestari, won the Best Artistic Achievement award.

“The eighteen months of the program are extremely intensive. It’s almost like doing a full degree but in a much shorter period of time. I really found a niche in animation. I spoke to Career Services and they helped me engage myself in the job searching field.”

Guillaume Lavoie, Video Game Design & Animation ’22

Dev tester, Ubisoft Montreal

Shortly after graduation, Sydney took on a full-time position as a game developer at Beamdog Studios.

Sydney Pallister, Video Game Design and Development ’22

Diogo received a full-time position four months before graduation. He now works as a technical artist at Sago Mini, a company that develops apps and toys for preschoolers and toddlers.

Diogo H., Video Game Design and Development ’22

Nick has started his own video game company, Key Stuck Studios, and is developing the video game Rust Bucket.

Nick Ashley, Video Game Design and Development ’22

Ciarán received a full-time job offer six months prior to graduation, and now works as a game programmer at Lightning Rod Games.

Ciarán Downes, Video Game Design and Development ’22

Through hard work, dedication, and support from my teachers, I managed to land this AAA job right after school,” Dudas said of working at People Can Fly, whose titles include Bulletstorm: Full Clip, Gears of War: Judgment, Bulletstorm, Outriders and the award-winning Painkiller.

“Attending TFS has been the most rewarding step in this journey. I learned so much about becoming an industry professional programmer – from writing simple programs, to graduating with a fully networked multiplayer TPS game in C++”.

Matyas Dudas, Video Game Design and Development ‘24

Game Programmer at People Can Fly Studio

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