Games Design (London)

Have you ever played a video game and wished that the gameplay was less frustrating or the level design more challenging? This course will take your technical skills to the next level as you design game scenarios and work out the gameplay and playability, programming and designing levels with the respective degrees of difficulty and fun. Working with games art and visual effects art students to add visual appeal, you will programme Blueprint games.
Working alone, in teams or in industry-focused charrettes, you will develop the digital toolset, technical invention and contextual knowledge to create stimulating and fun games. You will graduate with an industry-ready reel demonstrating your invention and technical prowess.

Modules include:
Introduction to Level Design
Intermediate Programming and Gameplay
Games Studio
Screen Arts Portfolio
Games Entrepreneurship
Game Production

Graduates will be prepared for a broad range of careers in games design. This could include roles such as level designer, gameplay designer, games UX designer, games writer, graphics programmer, AI programmer, generalist programmer and games tester.

[Year one]

• Principles of Screen Arts (40 credit points)
• Introducing 2D Digital Art (40 credit points)
• Games Studies (20 credit points)
• Introducing 3D Digital Art (20 credit points)
  [Year two]
• Processing 2D Digital Art (40 credit points)
• Processing 3D Digital Art (40 credit points)
• Games Design Studio (40 credit points)
• CoLab: Research, Exploration and Risk-taking (20 credit points)
• Optional module: You will also choose one optional 20-credit module from:
• 3D Materials and Exploration
• Storyboarding
• Character Ideation
• Experimental Animation
• Motion Graphics
• Digital Marketing and Communication
• Performance for Motion Capture
• Sound Art & Design
  [Year three]
• Optional Placement Year (Sandwich)*
  We have an option for all of our students to undertake a placement year (Sandwich) and allow you to decide whether this is right for you once you have completed years 1 and 2 of your course. This time spent working in industry provides our students with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation. If you are successful in securing a placement you will have the chance to gain an additional Certificate or Diploma in Professional Practice, dependent on duration.

• If you choose to take the sandwich route option, you will still need to apply for this course with the full-time UCAS code.
  [Final year]

• Games Art Project (60 credit points)
• Screen Arts Collaboration (40 credit points)
• Games Entrepreneurship (20 credit points)

People excel in different ways, and we want everybody to have the best possible chance of success. On this course you will be assessed on a range of individual and group presentations, and your final year project. Your work in Year Two accounts for 20% of your final degree mark, and your work in your final year accounts for the other 80%

Year 1: coursework (100%)
Year 2: coursework (100%)
Year 3: coursework (93%), practical assessment (7%).