Diploma in Game - Design and Simulation is a diploma in Digital Media & Game Development programme offered by Georgian College in Barrie, Canada. The programme runs for 4 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 7,619 per semester (CAD 1,387 per semester for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Digital Media & Game Development
Duration: 4 semesters
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 1,387 / semester
International tuition: CAD 7,619 / semester
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
In the Game – Design and Simulation program, you’ll gain a strong foundation in game programming, design, and simulation while preparing to create interactive digital experiences. As you develop your technical problem-solving skills, you’ll learn to design games and simulations across various platforms. Through hands-on projects, you’ll gain experience in game mechanics, real-time rendering, artificial intelligence, and multiplayer systems. The curriculum is designed to guide your learning, starting with fundamental concepts in game art, design, and programming as you build your first interactive projects, then progressing to more advanced topics like artificial intelligence, multiplayer design, and immersive technologies. You’ll have the opportunity to create a full 3D game that incorporates simulations and virtual reality. You gain the essential skills that aid the game development process, including project management and production workflows, which will help you develop teamwork and problem-solving abilities through long-term group projects. By graduation, you’ll have a strong portfolio of projects and the technical expertise needed for careers in game development, simulation engineering, and the interactive software industry.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Georgian College's own admission-requirements page for Game – Design and Simulation asks for an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent, or mature-student status, with Grade 12 English at the C or U level. Mature applicants 19 or older without an OSSD, non-secondary-school applicants, and home-schooled applicants can also be considered through equivalent courses, upgrading, a completed GED, or equivalency testing, with post-secondary coursework from a recognized institution also assessed. The page lists no standardized English-language test scores (IELTS, TOEFL, PTE, Duolingo or CAEL) and no portfolio requirement. Before the programme starts, students must obtain a personal laptop meeting specific hardware minimums — an Intel i7 or AMD Ryzen 9 processor, an NVIDIA RTX 3070 GPU, 16GB RAM, and Windows 11 — since Chromebooks, ARM-based devices such as Microsoft Surface, and MacOS machines are not supported.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall 2026 (Barrie campus) and Fall 2027 (Barrie Downtown)
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: 1 February 2027 is the equal-consideration date for Georgian's highly competitive programs, which now covers Fall 2027, Winter 2028 and Summer 2028 entry, and later applications are assessed first-come, first-served while seats last; offers of admission for this 2026-2027 cycle must be accepted by 1 May 2027. Programs outside the highly competitive list carry no equal-consideration date and are assessed on a rolling basis year-round. International applicants apply directly through Georgian's own portal with no published closing date and are assessed on a rolling basis while seats remain, though Georgian warns a program open when applied to may close before assessment. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
