Games Design (with integrated foundation year)

Turn your passion for gaming into a career shaping the future of one of the world’s most exciting industries. Our BA (Hons) Games Design with Integrated Foundation Year degree gives you the creative vision and technical know-how to become a standout game artist and designer.
Your journey begins with an introductory foundation year, designed to develop your skills, confidence, and core knowledge in a supportive and creative environment. This year helps you build strong artistic and academic foundations, ensuring you’re fully prepared to progress smoothly into the undergraduate degree.
From your very first day, you’ll dive into the art and design of games—building a professional portfolio that blends traditional skills like drawing and concept art with advanced techniques in 3D modelling, texturing, and game engines. Using industry standard software in our dedicated design labs, you’ll create playable prototypes that bring your imagination to life.
But it’s not just about the tools—it’s about you. You’ll learn how to collaborate, pitch ideas, and work as part of a team, developing the confidence and creativity that employers in this multi-billion-pound industry are looking for.
Join a vibrant, supportive community of designers, artists, and storytellers, and graduate ready to make your mark in the fast-growing world of gaming.

Module Examples

• Introduction to Drawing for Gaming

• Creative Technologies for Game Design

• Media in Context

• Drawing, Visualisation and Concept Art

• 3D Modelling

• Collaborative Practice

• Concept to Prototype

• Concept Art and Visualisation

• Texturing

• Group Game Project

• Theory and Research Methods in the Arts

• Major Project

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate/games-design/games-design-with-integrated-foundation-year/

Summative and formative assessments will take place throughout each academic year. You will be continually involved in the assessment of your own work and that of your peers, alongside receiving critical feedback from tutors.

A wide range of authentic assessment types will be used to help you develop your academic and work-related skills.

Specific examples of this:

• Module Work Book, bespoke ebooks, containing information, formative tasks, self grading exercises, embedded video clips, etc. to assist in specific modules ILO’s but also to enhance a culture of independent learning.
• Presentations/Pitching, where you are able to show work to Tutors and Peers in advance of Assignment Submission
• Seminars & Project Surgeries, a series of developmental seminars run where you review and comment on each others work, guided by tutors All of these activities promote learning partnerships between you, your peers and the staff.