BA (Hons) Computer Games Design (Placement Year)
Course Overview
Launch your career in the global games industry with our BA (Hons) Computer Games Design degree, designed to transform your passion into professional expertise. You will master the core principles of game design and development, specializing as a programmer or artist while creating and testing games for diverse audiences using our state-of-the-art facilities. To ensure you graduate industry-ready, you can enhance your studies with an optional professional work placement.
Key Program Highlights
- Learn from a teaching team of seasoned games industry experts
- Specialize your skills as either a game programmer or a game artist
- Develop and test games using our advanced game development facilities
- Gain vital professional experience through an optional work placement year
- Study at a TIGA Best Educational Institution award-winning university (2021, 2014)
Course Overview
Launch your career in the global games industry with our BA (Hons) Computer Games Design degree, designed to transform your passion into professional expertise. You will master the core principles of game design and development, specializing as a programmer or artist while creating and testing games for diverse audiences using our state-of-the-art facilities. To ensure you graduate industry-ready, you can enhance your studies with an optional professional work placement.
Key Program Highlights
- Learn from a teaching team of seasoned games industry experts
- Specialize your skills as either a game programmer or a game artist
- Develop and test games using our advanced game development facilities
- Gain vital professional experience through an optional work placement year
- Study at a TIGA Best Educational Institution award-winning university (2021, 2014)
Requirements
Modules
- 3D Modelling
- Art Skills for Games
- Coding and Scripting for Games
- Design Studio
- Game Development
- Games Design and Context
- Prototyping and Iterating Game Designs
- Student Enterprise for Games
- Design Games
- Finish and Launch a Game
- Commercial Asset Production for Real Time
- Designing for Animation
- Gameplay Programming
- Study Exchange
- Design and Visual Research for Cinema and Game
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice
- Professional Experience
- Maths for Games
- Final Year Project
- Real-Time Interactive Group Project: Stage One
- Real-Time Interactive Group Project: Stage Two
- Create Worlds
- Designing User Experiences and Interfaces
- Games Research
- Implementing Game Audio
- Programming Systems for Games
- Advanced Graphics Techniques
- Motion Capture Applications
- Psychological Theory for Game Designers
- Targeting Platforms
- CCI Placement Plus - Full Year
- CCI Self-Employed Placement - Full Year
- CCI Work Placement - Full Year
- Study Abroad - Full Year
- Study Abroad - Half Year
