Course Overview

This award-winning innovative course will allow you to learn all the key aspects of game design and development. There will be an inter-disciplinary first semester where you will work collaboratively on real world projects with students studying media production, music and sound design and photography & imaging to enhance your digital media production skills and to develop your ability to work effectively in a team and on project planning.

In the second semester of your first year you will then focus fully on game design and development gaining specialist skills but still with opportunities to collaborate with students on other courses in the creative technologies in subsequent years of study. You will be taught by lecturers with more than 20 years’ experience in the games industry offering you the sought-after practical experience of working creatively and collaboratively at the forefront of tech advances.

Real-world application of your skills is essential, and you will have the opportunity to work with external clients and game publishers. On completion of the course you will have the opportunity to showcase your creative production in the creative technologies show which evidences to employers that you are ready for a career in an ever-changing digital and technological landscape.

General Eligibility

• A Level BCC or;

• BTEC National Diploma MMM or;

• Access to HE qualifications with 9 Distinctions 36 Merits or;

• Equivalent level 3 qualifications worth 106 UCAS points

• Applicants must hold 5 GCSEs A-C including Maths and English or equivalent (reformed GCSE grade 4 or above)

Part Time Work Details

20 hours work permit for international students

Language Requirement

• We welcome qualifications from around the world. English language qualifications for international students: IELTS score of 6.0 or Cambridge Proficiency or Advanced Grade C.