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Are you passionate about games and want to turn your love for gaming into an exciting career?
Game Design (BA Hons)
This course is for creative individuals, passionate about storytelling, world building and interactive design. The storytellers and the creators – are you passionate about crafting immersive worlds and compelling stories? Do you love the idea of designing game mechanics that players will remember for years? If this sounds like you, then Game Design is the course for you.
This course explores the artistic, narrative, and technical aspects of game design. You’ll learn how to conceptualise and refine game ideas, and mechanics, build immersive environments, and breathe life into your creative visions. This course offers you the chance to experience industry-standard tools and put your learning into practise with project-based teaching and assessment.
Potential careers for graduates of this course include game designer, narrative designer, level designer, technical designer, character design, immersive design or even producer.
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Game Technical Art (BA Hons)
This course is for creators who want a bit of both worlds and have a passion for both art and technology. This course will involve tackling technical challenges and creative problem solving. Game Technical Art is perfect for students who want to blend the world of visual artistry with programming.
In this course, you’ll learn to bring visual concepts to life using computer graphics, rigging, motion capture, and animation. The course combines the art and technology within games, providing you with the skills to create professional and functional game assets. Unlike art or programming courses this pathway provides advanced training in both the artistic concepts and technical implementation that games use, a highly sought-after skill within the industry.
Studying Game Technical Art can lead to potential careers such as: technical artist, VFX artist, 3D Modeller, animation pipeline specialist or graphics engineer.
Game Programming (BSc Hons)
This course is for problem solvers who enjoy coding and love to solve logical problems and build complex systems, with a heavy focus on the technical side of game development. This course has a direct focus on programming and the architecture of different systems, equipping you with skills in programming languages such as C++, which are essential for game development. Alongside this, you’ll gain hands-on experience with console game development on real-world hardware to ensure you have skills that meet the industry demands.
This course is set apart as it has a strong emphasis on industry-relevant programming languages and direct experience with industry-relevant hardware sets in the real world, so this will be perfect for you if you want to create systems that power modern games of today and be in the future of gaming!
Potential careers you can pursue from this course are gameplay programmer, physics programmer, AI programmer, network programmer, systems engineer, software developer, and software engineer in test.
Game technology (BSc Hons)
This course is well suited to the tech enthusiasts. Are you interested in emerging tech like VR, AR, AI, or digital twins? If so, then this is the course for you! This course explores the future of gaming and its applications beyond entertainment.
The course places a strong emphasis on the emerging technologies of today. Our industry partnerships ensure that students will be working with the best tools to shape the future of gaming and beyond.
Typical careers after studying this course might be game technologist, digital twin specialist, hardware developer, VR developer, research and development engineer.