Master in Visual Game and Media Design

Visual Game and Media Design is a two-year master's programme at the Royal Danish Academy, taught in English at the academy's Institute of Design and Visual Interaction in Copenhagen. It is an intensive programme for students who want to work with game design, visual media, visual experiences and playful interactions.

What you study

The programme mixes hands-on work in digital games, animations, motion graphics and visual design with approaches to game and storyworld design. You learn to generate game ideas, build worlds, develop creative processes, explore business models, and collaborate with clients and users across gaming, visual entertainment, storytelling, animation and motion graphics.

The programme's own framing is that games and stories can shape how we live and act by letting us imagine alternative universes. Student work shown on the programme page includes projects such as Sandstorm, Shopping Drift Countdown, Mind Diver, Octavia, Roboleon and SUBSYST Island, alongside analog prototypes and a DADIU pitch.

How the programme is organised

The programme runs over two years. Teaching is in English and takes place in Copenhagen. The page describes the format as intensive and hands-on, with work in digital games, animation, motion graphics and visual design. Students present and test games, and the page shows analog prototypes as part of the work. The programme sits under the Institute of Design and Visual Interaction, and the subject area is design.

Who it suits

It suits students who are ready to dive into game design and visual media and who want to combine creative processes with client and user collaboration. If you like building worlds, telling stories through games and animation, and testing ideas in prototypes, this is the kind of programme to look at. The programme expects you to work with business models and with clients and users, not only with your own ideas.

Admission, language and next steps

The programme is taught in English. The page does not list English language requirements, application deadlines or admission scores, so check the academy's admission pages for master's programmes before you apply. Master's applications go straight to the institution, not through optagelse.dk. Students from the EU/EEA and Switzerland study free of charge; other students pay a fee that the institution sets. The programme page names Jakob Ion Wille as Head of Programme and lists staff and contact details, so use those if you have questions about the programme.

Master’s applications go straight to Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design and Conservation, not through optagelse.dk, and the institution sets its own deadline. Entry requirements and language tests are set by the institution, so start from the official programme page. Our guides cover tuition fees, residence permits and housing.