Games Studio Development (Taught)

Launch your games industry career with this master’s course, designed for creatives from all backgrounds. Gain hands-on experience in the full game development process, collaborating with teams to design, build, and market innovative, playable games.

Key course content includes:

• Studio-based learning and mentoring: collaborate in a studio model with guidance from industry and academic mentors to build professional skills and networks. Industry engagement: gain insights through mandatory field trips to Royal Leamington Spa game studios, and optional field trips and masterclasses at game studios further afield.

• Comprehensive games production: experience the full development pipeline while honing specialist skills in your chosen area.

Why you should study this course

• Our holistic approach to real-world learning is designed to develop your agility as a practitioner. We’ll teach you how to flex across a range of roles in small, independent game studios and become a skillset-specific practitioner with an understanding of the wider workflow in large game studios.

• You will have access to state-of-the-art facilities, including experimental immersive studios and digital and electronic hacklabs.

• You will benefit from a strong academic base with links to gaming companies in ‘Silicon Spa’ - the nearby hub of game developers in Royal Leamington Spa.

Collaborations

We work in collaboration with The RSA (Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), and upon successful completion of the 'Creative Futures and Social Change' module, you will receive RSA digital badging

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