Design. Build. Play. Develop skills relevant to today’s games industry.
Level up your creativity with this hands-on course designed for aspiring game designers and developers. Explore storytelling, mechanics and production pipelines while building, testing and refining playable games in a collaborative studio environment that mirrors industry.
Design, prototype and build your own playable games
Collaborate in studio-style teams across the full game pipeline.
Develop specialist skills in your chosen area of game development.
Why you should study this course
Develop your skills by working on real-world game development projects, from concept to playable prototype.
Access industry-standard software, engines and studio environments, including Unity and Unreal Engine.
Learn from lecturers with professional game industry experience and insight.
Experience real-world development cycles with pitching, prototyping, workable game design documents and testing.
Develop skills to work with studios of varying sizes or launch your indie game project or studio.
Careers and opportunities
On successful completion of this course, you may take on roles ranging from community manager, games producer, or games publisher, to gameplay designer, level designer, UX designer, Quality Assurance (QA) tester or games writer.
You should have developed an understanding of the key priorities for the games industry, such as the recent change in working patterns, equality, diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition and retention, and an understanding of cultural and commercial priorities, by engaging in real-world scenarios and collaborative opportunities and embedding theoretical and applied-practical exploration of sustainability, representation, player experience, and emerging areas of practice.
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This course has a common first year.
The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn. our industry, you’ll be more prepared and more clued up on how you may want to progress your education.
If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, so upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements). Once you learn more about your industry, you’ll be more prepared and more clued up on how you may want to progress your education.
Year One Modules -
Hack Lab and Creative Play
Interactive Narratives and Immersive Experiences
Concept Development, Prototyping and Design
Skills Lab
Year Two Modules -
Experimental Games Project
Beyond the Game: Understanding Your Professional Practice
Game Design Possible
Start Your Game Engines
Sandwich Year -
There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement* can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final year of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.
Final Year Modules -
Last Level: The Checkpoint
Last Level: Rise of the Machines
Last Level: Game of Phones
Last Level: The Respawn
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Teaching and learning methods may include:
Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Presentations
Group projects
Workshops
Practical workshop sessions.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
Coventry University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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The following entry points are available for this course:
This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.
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[1] 4 qualifications for tariff points allowed
[2] May also include AS level and EPQ
[3] Specific subject not required
Specific A Level subjects not required
Specific BTEC subjects not required
The Access to HE Diploma. Plus GCSE English at grade 4 / C or above.
GCSE English at grade 4 / C or Functional Skills Level 2, or other equivalent Level 2 awards.
Overall grade of Merit in the T Level Qualification in any subject.
Grades alone don’t tell us everything about your potential and your story. We use information from your application to assess achievements in your personal situation to support fair and equal access. For example, we consider where you live, your school, if you are a carer or a care leaver or have experienced disruption to your education.
We have different schemes that recognise this context that may result in a reduced offer by up to 24 UCAS points or equivalent.
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.
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* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Additional costs/fee information
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Studying this course with a sandwich year incurs an additional £1,500 fee (£1,800 for international students) to cover your academic support throughout your placement year.
For full international fees and the most up to date information about tuition fees, please check the relevant course page of the Coventry University website.
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