Computer Games Design and Programming (With a foundation year)

As a Computer Games Design and Programming student, you'll learn how to take your game ideas from concept, through production to final release using industry-standard design and development techniques. You will also learn how to develop or modify the technologies used in game engines.

Run in affiliation with games industry body TIGA, this course will give you the skills you need for a career in games development focused around using multiple games technologies.

This course has been designed around the needs of the games industry with the focus on developing skills in design, programming and production.

These three core areas cover many of the job roles advertised by a highly competitive worldwide games industry and allow a graduate to cast a wide net when it comes to applying for a games studio role.

This broad skill set also makes graduates from this course ideally suited to joining Indie teams where the need to be flexible in a role is particularly valuable or to independently create their own games.

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

Course Modules

Foundation Year: Engine Foundations; Collaborative Game Pitch; Design Foundations; Programming Foundations

Year One: Core Programming Concepts for Games; Fundamentals of Game Artificial Intelligence; Game Engine Programming; Introduction to Systems Prototyping

Year Two Core: Game Production Studio; Mechanics Design; Programming Architectures for Engines
Year Two Optional (Stoke): Agent-Based Decision Making; Cross Reality; User Interface Design; Rational Level Design

Year Three Core: Experimental Gameplay Design and a choice of one of the following: Final Year Project: Collaborative Project; Final Year Project: Dissertation; Final Year Project: Technical Artefact
Year Three Optional: Advanced Level Design; Further Engines Prototyping; Integrated Systems Programming