107502 - UNDERGRADUATE THESIS (VIDEOGAMES)

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Juan José Pons López

Trimester: At quarters

Credits: 20

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 5

• Catalan

The materials can be provided in Catalan as well as in Spanish or English.

The Final Degree Project (TFG) is a personal work of deepening within a subject or problematic, of synthesis and often transversal within the field of the studies of the Degree of Videogames, with the end that the student demonstrates its capacity to apply the training acquired throughout the studies of the Degree, accrediting the obtaining of the title of Degree. The personal work of the student linked to the realization of the TFG is the corresponding to 20 ECTS and frames in the own matter of the Final Work of Degree. The student will be able to carry out a research work or to carry out a project centered in one of the following areas: company, design, art or programming. The TFG is an individual work without detriment that it can be an independent part of a work developed jointly between students of the same or different degrees. In any case, the defense and evaluation of the TFG is individual.

The classroom (physical or virtual) is a safe space, free of sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and discriminatory attitudes, either towards students or towards teachers. We trust that together we can create a safe space where we can make mistakes and learn without having to suffer prejudice from others.

Subject 1.- The Final Work of Degree (TFG): Essential elements

1.1. Types of the TFG: Research or Applied

1.2. Main areas of knowledge of the TFG

1.3. Process of research, drafting and defense before a court

Subject 2.- The citation in APA

2.1. Citation systems and their academic relevance

2.2. The APA system (I): Citation in text

2.3. The APA system (II): Citation to references

2.4. The APA system (III): special citation cases

Subject 3.- The preliminary project

3.1. Starting the project: introduction, objectives / hypotheses and / or research questions, academic interests and originality of the work

3.2. Preliminary research: the references and the theoretical framework

3.3. Methodology: techniques and models of creation and analysis

3.4. Time organization: schedule and methodological design

Item 4.- From the intermediate report to the final report

4.1. Monitoring the research and creative process: types of work according to areas of knowledge

4.2. Results of the TFG: writing, presentation and argumentation

4.3. The conclusions: link with the objectives, discussion and future work

4.4. Legal aspects, licenses and copyright

4.5. Formalisms of the final memory: automatic indexing, format and typographic elements

Item 5.- The defense before the court

5.1. Oral presentation techniques and university argumentation

5.2. Visual support elements: synthesis, concretion and complementarity

The grade of each student will be calculated following the following percentages:

A1. Preliminary design 0%

A2. Interim report and preliminary results 0%

A3. Final report and final result 80%

A4. Defense 20%

Final grade = A3 0.8 + A4 0.2

Considerations:

• The TFG tutor issues a delivery report to qualitatively assess A1 and A2 deliveries.
• The grade for A3 and A4 deliveries will be set by the court.
• The tutor must authorize, according to regulations, the presentation and defense of the work.
• The evaluation will use, as provided for in the report of the Degree in Video Game Design and Production in the subject of the Final Degree Project, a system of rubrics in which the quality of the documentation and the defense of the work carried out will be considered.
• According to the regulations for the Final Degree Project, in order to pass the TFG, a minimum grade of 5 out of 10 must be obtained in the final assessment of the court. The court will evaluate the TFG based on the defense, technical and artistic difficulty, achievement of objectives, usefulness, rigor and quality of work, among others. 
• Previously, the Final Degree Project Committee of the degree will review the documentation submitted to detect defects in form. In the event of a serious defect, the documentation may be returned to the student, who must rectify it within a very short period of time, as stipulated in the TFG regulations.
• Any form of academic fraud will be sanctioned in accordance with the center's evaluation regulations. In the event that signs of fraud are detected, including the improper use of generative artificial intelligence tools, the subject professor may call the student for an individual interview with the aim of verifying authorship. In addition, the instructions of each area on the use of generative AI must be followed. 

Recovery:

• The TFG has no call for recovery.

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Usual manuals and monographs in the field of art for video games

Usual manuals and monographs in the field of entrepreneurship and business management of video games

Usual manuals and monographs in the field of programming

Usual manuals and monographs in the field of video game design

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