This challenging course will teach you how to take the software tools of games design and create new gaming experiences from concept to finished game. Explore code and programming as an industry-sought skill, enabling you to translate an idea into playable prototypes and use software to achieve your design goals and creative direction. Graphics development, storyboarding and the conceptual framework underpinning games design are covered in depth. The course equips students with the skills and knowledge to develop their own game designs from the ground up. Working from original concepts you will develop ideas into playable games and test them to evaluate their experience of play. You'll not only design the visual feedback, but also the player interaction with the game mechanics. This concept-to-game approach is supported by the growing theoretical area of games studies.

The aim of the course is to develop graduates who combine an experimental and innovative approach to design with an understanding of the player experience with critical and analytical skills to be able to develop for a chosen platform. The career opportunities for graduates include games design, level design, content creation, project management, quality management and localisation. Alumni BA (Hons) Games Design graduates have gone on to work within the games industry as designers, producers, developers, 3D/2D content creators, localisation and quality assurance managers. They also excell in roles outside of the games specific industries as flash developers, web developers and 3D modellers. Student Jobs and Careers at UAL We know what it takes to be successful in your chosen field. Your tutors are professionals in their own right and understand what you need to help you establish your career. Student Enterprise and Employability (SEE) are dedicated to helping you build up work-relevant skills, knowledge, experience and networks throughout your time here. You will also benefit from our many relationships with industry, which give our students exclusive opportunities and access to networks and funding.