Modules

YEAR 1 In your first year, you'll learn what it takes to make a game, including asset creation, project management and pipelines, pitching ideas, and considering theories about what games are and how they engage players. You'll jump into the world of computing, get comfortable using digital tools such as Unity and Unreal and get to grips with the foundations of game development by learning the basic principles, roles, and tools used in the game development pipeline. Modules ● Development Foundations ● Data Fundamentals ● Multidisciplinary Teamwork ● Principles of Computing ● Digital Creativity ● Individual Programming Project YEAR 2 In the second year you will advance your programming skills and experience through a combination of solo and collaborative projects. You'll be tasked with creating a whole game world for production, exploring the relationships between games and players, and be encouraged to work collaboratively with other students from across the institution taking your skills across disciplines to produce a cross-discipline project that utilises skills and disciplines across Game Art and Game Programming. Modules ● Advanced Game Programming ● World Building: Pre-production ● Game Form and Player Experience ● World Building: Production ● Collaboration YEAR 3 Equipped with a greater sense of autonomy, you will use your third year as an opportunity to develop greater intellectual freedom, both as an individual but also in tackling a challenge in collaboration with others. You'll prepare yourself for the job market by building a professional game portfolio, as well as developing your commercial awareness and entrepreneurial mindset; be that setting up your own business, establishing yourself as a freelancer or being an employee with high utility within a business or organisation. Modules ● Professional Portfolio ● Experience Design ● Future Skills ● Major Collaboration ● Future of Games Programme structures and modules can change as part of our curriculum enhancement and review processes. If a certain module is important to you, please discuss it with the Course Leader.