Computer Games Design (with a placement year)

Develop your skills on our Computer Games Design degree. Ideal if you're interested in becoming a 3D artist, animator or games designer.

Our Computer Games Design degree explores the creative and technical aspects of games production, giving you the necessary skills to develop, produce and publish games titles.

This course is accredited by the industry games body TIGA, and will give you the skills to become a 3D artist, animator or games designer. We work closely with industry partners to ensure that course content remains relevant, giving our students excellent networking opportunities in the games industry.

Our facilities boast a hi-tech Vicon Motion Capture Studio, a specialist Games Centre, hundreds of PCs and game development possibilities with Sony, Vive, Oculus and more.

You’ll develop your skills by using industry standard software and hardware such as Autodesk Creative Suite and the Unreal and Unity games engines. Using professional techniques acquired through lectures, tutorials, seminars, and industry workshops, you will develop a portfolio of industry standard work.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BSc (Hons) Computer Games Design

Year One Core: 3D Games Props: Pipeline and Production; Introduction to Asset Creation; Introduction to Games Animation; Introduction to Games Design; Mechanics Prototyping; Project Management for Games Design
Year Two Core: 2D Games Creation; Gameplay and Quest Design; Junior Collaborative Games Development; Systems Design for Games
Year Two Optional: Advanced Realtime Technologies; Arcade Games Development; Art of Lighting; C# for Games Designers; Cinematics for Games Designers; User Interface Design and Implementation
Year Three: Placement
Year Four Core: Games Development Project; Senior Collaborative Games Development
Year Four Optional: C++ for Games Designers; Emergent Games Technologies; Experimental Level Design; Multiplayer Level Design; Prototyping for Technical Designers; Tool Development for Technical Designers

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally before you complete the formal assessments that count towards your final mark. Each module normally includes practice or ‘formative’ assessments, for which you receive feedback from your tutor. Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark. There is a formal or ‘summative’ assessment at the end of each module. This includes a range of coursework assessments, such as essays, reports, portfolios, performance, presentations, final year, independent project and written examinations. The grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.