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The MDGD aims to provide advanced technical and scientific training in an area of fusion between Communication Sciences andTechnologies and Computer Science, promoting interdisciplinarity in an area where creativity and technique come together.

• Provide the business fabric with qualified senior staff in the area of digital game development
•  Foster advanced training focused on innovation, development, and research in Digital Games
•  Foster interdisciplinarity, creative development and the mastery of Digital Games technologies
•  Encourage young graduates to carry out research and development in the area of Digital Games.

Thus, futureprofessionals should acquire skills such as:

• Ability to analyse requirements and research of users (gamers);
• Comprehension of the mechanics and dynamics inherent to Digital Games;
• Design and develop (programme) digital games in academic research contexts and for the national/international market;
• Know the main technologies and technological paradigms underlying the multimedia applications of Digital Games;
• Understand and apply computer science concepts and theories to the Digital Games context;
• Ability to develop processes for evaluating the gaming experience;
• Ability to investigate problems and theoretical concepts in the area of Digital Games.

The Master in Communication and Web Technologies (MCTW) arises to meet the training needs of professionals qualified in the conceptualization, development, and evaluation of communication solutions supported by Web technologies, promoting the ability to investigate and propose future solutions, both in current and emerging technologies.

In this master degree, students are challenged, based on the Project-Based Learning and Challenged Based Learning methodology, to present innovative technology and communication solutions in the context of services and applications based on Web technologies. In this context, the MCTW presents as overall aims of the study cycle, to develop or acquire skills in:

• the conceptualisation of digital products supported by Web technologies;
• the conceptualisation of responsive interfaces for Web services and applications;
• User Experience interfaces assessment;
• development of services and applications using the latest Web technologies;
• conceptualisation and development of tangible interfaces, integrated with digital products for the Web;
• assessment of digital products with the intent of making them accessible to all audiences;
• development of strategies for valuing and promoting digital products for the Web.

Holders of a bachelor’s degree or legal equivalent in Communication Sciences and Technologies, Multimedia or Informatics, or other candidates who demonstrate consolidated skills in Web technologies can apply. These skills can be demonstrated with, at least, one of the following elements:

• 9 ECTS in Web development;
• 30 hours of professional training in Web development, duly proven;
• Professional experience demonstrated through a portfolio.

The Master in Audiovisual Communication for New Media (MCANM) emerges as a response to the most recent developments in the audiovisual area, namely the growing proliferation of new means of broadcasting audiovisual signal, of which smartphones, television/videocast solutions and others through the Internet, along with new interactive forms for the use and appropriation of these contents. In this context, the MCANM presents as the overall aims for the study cycle to develop students’ skills in the processes of preproduction and production of audiovisual content and their adaptation to new means of content transmission, through the development of various audiovisual projects for the New Media

The MCANM seeks to endow students with skills in pre-production, production and post-productions of audiovisual content for dissemination in new media. In this regard, it is sought that students achieve the following skills/learning outcomes:
LO1-Identify the role and relevance that audiovisual content plays in the current scenario based on the dissemination in new media and on consumption in mobility;
LO2-Apply the principles of cinematography, post-production and special effects in the production of audiovisual content;
LO3-Pre-produce and produce crossmedia and transmedia narratives;
LO4-Investigate strategies for the dissemination, publication and transmission of audiovisual content on social platforms and networks;