Course summary

Launch your games industry career with this master’s course, designed for creatives from all backgrounds. Gain hands-on experience in the full game development process, collaborating with teams to design, build, and market innovative, playable games. Key course content includes:

• Studio-based learning and mentoring: collaborate in a studio model with guidance from industry and academic mentors to build professional skills and networks. Industry engagement: gain insights through mandatory field trips to Royal Leamington Spa game studios, and optional field trips and masterclasses at game studios further afield.

• Comprehensive games production: experience the full development pipeline while honing specialist skills in your chosen area.

• Our holistic approach to real-world learning is designed to develop your agility as a practitioner. We’ll teach you how to flex across a range of roles in small, independent game studios and become a skillset-specific practitioner with an understanding of the wider workflow in large game studios.

• You will have access to state-of-the-art facilities, including experimental immersive studios and digital and electronic hacklabs.

• You will benefit from a strong academic base with links to gaming companies in ‘Silicon Spa’ - the nearby hub of game developers in Royal Leamington Spa.