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Games Design (London) at Nottingham Trent University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Nottingham Trent University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Course summary

Have you ever played a video game and wished that the gameplay was less frustrating or the level design more challenging? This course will take your technical skills to the next level as you design game scenarios and work out the gameplay and playability, programming and designing levels with the respective degrees of difficulty and fun. Working with games art and visual effects art students to add visual appeal, you will programme Blueprint games. Working alone, in teams or in industry-focused charrettes, you will develop the digital toolset, technical invention and contextual knowledge to create stimulating and fun games. You will graduate with an industry-ready reel demonstrating your invention and technical prowess. Modules include: Introduction to Level Design Intermediate Programming and Gameplay Games Studio Screen Arts Portfolio Games Entrepreneurship Game Production Graduates will be prepared for a broad range of careers in games design. This could include roles such as level designer, gameplay designer, games UX designer, games writer, graphics programmer, AI programmer, generalist programmer and games tester.

Modules

[Year one]

  • Principles of Screen Arts (40 credit points)
  • Introducing 2D Digital Art (40 credit points)
  • Games Studies (20 credit points)
  • Introducing 3D Digital Art (20 credit points)
[Year two]
  • Processing 2D Digital Art (40 credit points)
  • Processing 3D Digital Art (40 credit points)
  • Games Design Studio (40 credit points)
  • CoLab: Research, Exploration and Risk-taking (20 credit points)
  • Optional module: You will also choose one optional 20-credit module from:
  • 3D Materials and Exploration
  • Storyboarding
  • Character Ideation
  • Experimental Animation
  • Motion Graphics
  • Digital Marketing and Communication
  • Performance for Motion Capture
  • Sound Art & Design
[Year three]
  • Optional Placement Year (Sandwich)*
We have an option for all of our students to undertake a placement year (Sandwich) and allow you to decide whether this is right for you once you have completed years 1 and 2 of your course. This time spent working in industry provides our students with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation. If you are successful in securing a placement you will have the chance to gain an additional Certificate or Diploma in Professional Practice, dependent on duration.
  • If you choose to take the sandwich route option, you will still need to apply for this course with the full-time UCAS code.
[Final year]
  • Games Art Project (60 credit points)
  • Screen Arts Collaboration (40 credit points)
- Games Entrepreneurship (20 credit points)

Assessment method

People excel in different ways, and we want everybody to have the best possible chance of success. On this course you will be assessed on a range of individual and group presentations, and your final year project. Your work in Year Two accounts for 20% of your final degree mark, and your work in your final year accounts for the other 80% Year 1: coursework (100%) Year 2: coursework (100%) Year 3: coursework (93%), practical assessment (7%).

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W207
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
NTU London Campus
Campus code:
L

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

A lower offer may be made based on a range of factors, including your background (such as where you live and the school or college you attended), your experiences and individual circumstances (you may have been in care, for example). This is called a contextual offer and we get data from UCAS to make these decisions. NTU offers a student experience like no other, and this approach helps us to find students who have the potential to succeed here, but may have faced barriers that can make it more difficult to access university. We also consider equivalent qualifications and combinations. Please contact Nottingham Trent University Admissions team for further information.

Student Outcomes

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

The UK Government recently announced an increase to the Home Undergraduate tuition fee from £9,250 (the 2024 entry fee) to £9,535 for 2025 entry. This is subject to Parliamentary approval and is therefore still to be confirmed. The current expectation is that the NTU tuition fee for 2025 entry will be £9,535.
Games Design (London) at Nottingham Trent University - UCAS