This four year honours degree programme is designed to produce graduates with an in-depth knowledge of the essential aspects of games design and development. You will learn the techniques for analysis, design and development of games for diverse platforms including mobile, handheld consoles, personal and tablet computers, games consoles, interactive TV and online games in a variety of computer programming languages. You will produce game designs and implement these through a variety of game engines and frameworks using state of the art technology and specialised hardware. Our hardware facilities include Ireland’s largest Xbox 360 Game laboratory and access to Playstation development kits. LIT is licenced for leading multi-platform game engines to enhance your learning experience. LIT Thurles, a Digital Games Hub, is the home of Games Fleadh, one of Ireland’s most important games programming festivals. Our staff are the creators and on-going innovators of this influential trademark event. Students build extensive portfolios through involvement in Games Fleadh and other events including Global Game Jam, WOWZAPP and Imagine Cup. LIT Thurles alumni have worked on AAA titles such as StarCraft, Wolfenstien, Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. Our campus enterprise centre facilitates and is host to game studios start-ups who are actively supported by Thurels Chamber Enterprise Centre business mentors.

Good reasons to choose Games Design and Development at LIT Thurles · LIT Thurles students have worked on AAA titles including StarCraft, Wolfenstien, Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. · Ireland has a growing indie game developer community and indigenous game studios including Tribal City Interactive, BatCat Games, NeverMind Games (Thurles), Atom Split Games (Thurles). · It’s been estimated by industry representative body Games Ireland that numbers employed within the industry will double over the next two years.