Ever played a terrible game and thought you could design something better? Or been so gripped by one that you wish you had come up with the idea? Then think about a course in computer games design. The games designer makes great ideas become real, designing the rules and structure of a game. It involves working with many different people, understanding the specialists who need to work together to create games. You develop 2D and 3D design skills alongside an appreciation of game mechanics and its relationship to game play, including conceptual, story, character, level and visual design. You also study game engines and industry technologies and compare their capabilities. *This course has a Foundation Year for applicants who don’t meet the requirements for Year 1 entry. Limited places are available. More about the Foundation Year Games and Animation

This specialist degree offers the skills you will need for a career in the games industry and provides generic skills which open up numerous other career paths. Future employment opportunities include creative director, games designer, scriptwriter, level designer, concept/storyboard artist, interface designer and games tester. Graduates from our games degrees have gone on to work as level designers, junior game designers, mission designers and artists and in a wide range of companies including 3rd Dimensions, Atomic Planet, Bizarre Creations, Blitz Games, Codeworks, Eutechnyx, Halch, Media Molecule, Microsoft Rare, Streamline, Frontier Rebellion, Rockstar North, Sega, Streamline, Traveller's Tales, Ubisoft Reflections, Venom, Virtual Playground, Volatile, Weta Digital and many more.