GDIM at University of California, Irvine

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GDIM coursework.

• GDIM 27Intermediate Game Designopens 5 courses (4 directly)
• I&C SCI 166Game Designopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• GDIM 33Coding In Game Enginesopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• GDIM 32Intermediate Programming for Gamesopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• I&C SCI 161Game Engine Labopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• GDIM 167ACapstone Game Project Iopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate GDIM work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 22 GDIM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 7 more GDIM courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in GDIM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at GDIM 139

  1. GDIM 31Introduction to Programming for Games
  2. GDIM 32Intermediate Programming for Games
  3. I&C SCI 161Game Engine Lab
  4. GDIM 139Special Topics in Game Programming

• 4 courses deep, ending at GDIM 167B

  1. GDIM 25Game Design Fundamentals
  2. GDIM 27Intermediate Game Design
  3. GDIM 167ACapstone Game Project I

• 2 courses deep, ending at GDIM 131

  1. STATS 6Introduction to Data Science
  2. GDIM 131Data Analytics for Interactive Media

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GDIM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GDIM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

GDIM does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UC Irvine campus feed.