Welcome to XAMK Gamelab!

Gamelab is the laboratory for game programming engineering education. The program has been designed in close collaboration with the game industry, including companies and professionals working in the field.

The Gamelab learning environment provides students with comprehensive expertise in the game industry, which can also be directly applied to any kind of software development.

Game Programming

Studying Game Programming gives you a good starting point to design, test and develop game products. International events and networking play a key role in game industry culture. During your studies you can participate in several game industry events and form professional networks. Collaboration with game and software industry professionals gives students the possibility to work in various companies and publish commercial products already during their studies.

The studies are implemented as daily contact learning with plenty of programming project work as well as online self-studies. Game programming and programming can be learned only by doing, so problem solving, and independent study is a key to master this profession. During your studies you will achieve comprehensive game industry skills, which can also be used in software development in general.

Game Technologies

The content of the Game Technology engineering degree is developed in close collaboration with professionals working in the gaming industry and companies and communities utilizing game technologies on their products. As game technology and the gaming industry are constantly evolving, acquiring new knowledge is crucial for engineers specializing in game technology.

Utilizing game technologies requires strong technical skills such as programming and leveraging various interfaces. It also requires creativity and courage to try new methods. Technologies familiar from games are utilized in different sectors to provide users with new types of content in both traditional and interactive media.