General Conditions & Set-Up:

• Duration: 3 minutes.
• Language: Record the video in English.
• Technical Setup: Ensure your recording device is positioned to capture your face clearly with good lighting and framing. Record in a quiet environment to ensure clear audio and minimize distractions.
• Editing: You are allowed to edit your recording to optimize the timing, visuals, and overall presentation quality. Ensure the final video flows smoothly and complies to the instructions.
• Submission: Upload your video to a secure platform (e.g., Vimeo, YouTube, or Google Drive) as a password-protected or unlisted link. Insert the link and password into the respective fields in the application form.

Instructions for Application Video:

1. Introduction
   Introduce yourself by stating your name, where you’re from, and your educational or professional background relevant to your application. (20 sec. max.)
   
   
2. Skill set self-evaluation
   Identify one specific skill you aim to acquire or further develop within the MA Digital Games program. This could relate to, for example, game mechanics, visual or audio styles, tool development, or a comparable area.

Explain the innovation potential of this skill for game making, its relevance to the game industry, your current level of expertise and how the MA Digital Games program will support you in further developing this skill.

Use visual material to illustrate and support your points.

Academic reflection assessment

Identify and briefly discuss a leading area of academic reflection on games and/or digital media that you consider central to your development and creative practice (and list them in a bibliography at the end of the document e.g, games history, games aesthetic, narration, ethical considerations related to working in the games industry etc.). Please, submit your assessment in the written format as a PDF document. The length of the document should be approximately 800 words (not shorter than 700 and not longer than 900 words). Support your reflection with three relevant academic sources and list them in a bibliography at the end of the document.

Please, make sure to include the link to your online portfolio in the application form or as a link in the Application Task PDF.

Please combine all assignments into one PDF and label it as follows:

“MADG2026_lastname-firstname.pdf”

This document can include links to audiovisual add-ons like external players (YouTube, browser games) or downloadable files (e.g., Dropbox). Please make sure that the submitted formats are easily accessible.

You need to upload the PDF to the corresponding field in the online application form. The form needs to be submitted by March 31 at 23:59 CEST at the latest. Please ensure that all documents are complete before you upload your application. We do not accept duplicate applications. Once you submit it, you will receive your applicant number. Keep this number safe! It will be important for the next step of the application process.

After March 31 all applications will be evaluated. We will invite a group of selected candidates to the interview round which will take place on June 8. The interview schedule will be posted on our website on May 20. To find out if you have been invited to an interview, you will need to look for your applicant number, which will be provided to you in the confirmation mail, after you submitted the application form on the CGL website.

The interviews will be conducted online. 
The interview platform is: Zoom.

Once the interviews are carried out, all accepted and rejected candidates will be informed via email  at  the end of June / beginning of July.

Please be aware that CGL does not check the formal validity of your documents. International applicants have to submit their documents to the validation agency Uni-Assist parallel to the CGL application procedure. The deadline for Uni-Assist submissions is also March 31.

We would generally recommend you to prepare and submit your Uni-Assist materials early on. The evaluation process by Uni-Assist can take up to four weeks ­during peak times even longer. Your final admission, however, depends on the result of the evaluation.

Please find further information on the Uni-Assist procedure here:

Uni-Assist

Uni-Assist FAQ