LVL: Video Game Laboratory 1.0

Create and release a computer game in six months.

Video Game Laboratory 1.0 is a six-month development programme run by the Liberec Video Game Laboratory (LVL). Participants experience how a real game studio works, from the first decisions about a game to its completion and release. The programme is open to people aged 18 and over from Czechia, Germany and Poland. Participation is free.

How does Video Game Laboratory 1.0 work?

Over six months, a development team will form and work together on one computer game with guidance from industry professionals. Just as in a game studio, participants will take on roles that match their skills and interests:

ART
The game’s visual and sound design – how it looks and sounds.

TECH
Programming and technical implementation – how the game works.

GAME DESIGN
Mechanics and rules – what players do and how the game plays.

PRODUCTION / QA / MARKETING
Coordinating development, testing, ensuring quality and bringing the game to players.

This is not a course where everyone makes a separate practice project. The whole team works on one shared game and sees it through to release.

Experience you can show

Video Game Laboratory 1.0 offers an experience as close as possible to working in game development. You will collaborate across disciplines, work to a shared brief, develop as a team and take responsibility for a specific part of the finished game. At the end, you will have more than a certificate or student project: a completed, released game that you helped create and can add to your portfolio.

If the team works well together and wants to continue, Video Game Laboratory 1.0 could be the start of further collaboration and new games beyond the programme.

Why are we launching Video Game Laboratory 1.0?

The Liberec Video Game Laboratory aims to create the conditions for the games industry to grow in the Liberec Region and the Czech–German–Polish border area. People interested in game development should not have to leave the region to gain experience and career opportunities. We want Liberec and its surroundings to become a place where people can learn, meet collaborators and, eventually, work in the games industry.

Video Game Laboratory 1.0 is one step towards making that happen.

The Liberec Video Game Laboratory is a programme of Linserka, the cultural and creative centre.

I want to join Video Game Laboratory 1.0

Are you at least 18 and keen to gain practical game development experience? Applications are open to people from the Liberec Region and neighbouring areas of Germany and Poland.

Choose your application language:

CZ – Czech application form
ENG – English application form
DE – German application form
PL – Polish application form