VFS All Access Pass | Game Development

In 1987, Vancouver Film School introduced the world’s first true immersion film program. Today, VFS is Canada’s premier post-secondary entertainment arts institution, offering an immersive curriculum in film, animation, video game production, VR/AR development, motion and interactive design, programming, art/production foundation, and other related programs. VFS is known for providing high-quality education in accelerated timeframes. VFS alumni are consistently credited on the most successful products in the entertainment economies.

Vancouver Film School

Your backstage access to VFS’s #1-ranked Game Design and Programming programs is May 9 in Vancouver

151 W Cordova St

<h4>Experience VFS’s Game Development programs &amp; your future in the game industry.</h4> VFS All Access Pass is your exclusive backstage access to our award-winning Game Design and Programming for Games, Web &amp; Mobile programs and a chance to experience your future designing the next generation of AAA games. Meet our faculty, join an Industry Talk, experience demos in Unreal Engine &amp; Unity, try out student games, &amp; more. EXPERIENCE ALL THAT THE PROGRAMS OFFERVFS’s Game Development programs train artists in the fundamentals of game &amp; web development. Learn how our industry-leading curriculum trains you to build fully-playable games in modern industry pipelines and prepares you to join an alumni that’s worked on Resident Evil: Requiem, Ghost of Yōtei, Battlefield 6, Blue Prince, and more. INDUSTRY TALK: BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL GAME DEVELOPMENT CAREERAn industry expert will share their journey, lessons learned &amp; advice for breaking into the field, working on large-scale productions, and carving out your place in a competitive, ever-changing industry. EXPERIENCE A VFX DEMO IN UNREAL ENGINEExamine how particle systems – like those used for large enemy swarms or large physics simulations – work in different game engines, including Unreal Engine (used in hit games like Clair Obscur, Reanimal, The Witcher IV, and more). You’ll emerge with a sense of how VFX is used in a variety of games that have been remade in Unreal Engine. DISCOVER THE POWER OF THE UNITY GAME ENGINEExperience the power of Unity, from terrain generation to customized lighting, visual effects, adding structures, data importing, and so much more. Another of the industry’s leading game engines, Unity has been utilized in creating hit games like Hollow Knight: Silksong, Genshin Impact, Among Us, Pokémon Go, &amp; more. DISCOVER THE IMPACT OF A GAME’S VISUAL STYLEGet a detailed look at the latest tools used in 3D art production for concept creation in games. VFS’s Senior Art Instructor shows off exactly how powerful modern art tools like Substance Painter and Designer can truly bring a concept to life and get AAA games off the ground. LEVEL-UP AT THE VFS ARCADEVFS students create award-winning games. A total of 5 VFS-made games have won the Unity Award for Best Student Project: Pulse, Afloat, The Cluckening, Meowmentum Mori, and most recently The Silence After in 2025. Try out select games for yourself at our arcade and see what’s possible in just 1 year of VFS training. MEET THE HEAD OF GAME DEVELOPMENTChristopher Mitchell discusses the 1-year journey of Game Design and Programming students at VFS and why we’re ranked the #1 Game Design School in Canada by The Princeton Review. An experienced game developer and educator, Christopher’s credits include The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run and Crash of the Titans, for which he was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing from the WGA. Event Details:Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026 Time: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. PST Location: 151 W Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3 Cost: Free*Light food &amp; drink will be provided. "The Game Design program was the best decision I’ve made. Every instructor, TA, and mentor genuinely cares about the students. Thanks to the incredible education and connections, I was able to go straight to working professionally in the game industry.” Matt Garnett Technical Gameplay Designer, The Coalition Game Design Alum

View our Game Design Showreel to see what past students have accomplished at VFS.

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