Course summary
This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. Overview Our award-winning Computer Games Production degree course will help you achieve your dream of becoming a computer games producer or project manager. You’ll also develop the essential business expertise to start your own indie games studio and tackle the challenges that arise – from funding and protecting your innovative ideas, to team and project management, marketing, and leadership. By working with fellow students from our Computer Games Technology degree course, you’ll gain experience in all areas of game development. Our course emphasises collaboration and has strong ties with the South Coast games industry, so you'll have many opportunities to work with games companies, culminating in a year-long shippable development project in your final year. The independent games industry is skyrocketing. According to Ukie, the trade body for the UK games industry, video games contributed a record £2.91 billion to the UK economy in 2019 and the pandemic has created a huge revenue opportunity. Now’s the golden time to make your mark. Course highlights
- Learn current industry standards by studying modules created with eminent games companies such as Rare
- Build your industry contacts by collaborating with games companies
- Learn from a teaching team with a mix of managerial experience and industry expertise
- Attend guest lectures by industry speakers to increase your industry knowledge
- Take advantage of a self-employed placement year to gain valuable professional experience
- Showcase your work at our annual Graduate Show to attract potential employers and the wider public
- Black Rock
- Climax
- Codemasters
- Creative Assembly
- d3t
- Electronic Arts
- Frontier
- Jagex
- Kwalee
- Rebellion
- Sony
Modules
Full time modules Year 1 Core modules in this year include:
- 3D Modelling (20 credits)
- Art Skills for Games (20 credits)
- Coding and Scripting for Games (20 credits)
- Game Development (20 credits)
- Games Design and Context (20 credits)
- Production Studio (20 credits)
- Leadership Development (20 credits)
- Student Enterprise for Games (20 credits)
- Commercial Asset Production for Real Time (40 credits)
- Design and Visual Research for Cinema and Game (20 credits)
- Design Games (20 credits)
- Designing for Animation (20 credits)
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice (20 credits)
- Gameplay Programming (20 credits)
- Maths for Games (20 credits)
- Program Consoles (20 credits)
- Programming Application Programming Interfaces (20 credits)
- Prototyping and Iterating Game Designs (20 credits)
- Final Year Project (40 credits)
- Group Leadership, Management and Production Skills: Part One (20 credits)
- Group Leadership, Management and Production Skills: Part Two (20 credits)
- Advanced Graphics Techniques (20 credits)
- Create Worlds (20 credits)
- Designing User Experiences and Interfaces (20 credits)
- Games Research (20 credits)
- Implementing Game Audio (20 credits)
- Motion Capture Applications (20 credits)
- Programming AI for Games (20 credits)
- Psychological Theory for Game Designers (20 credits)
- Targeting Platforms (20 credits)
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- The Independent Game Developers' Association
How to apply
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:
- I601
- Institution code:
- P80
- Campus name:
- Main Site
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 120 - 128 points
A level - ABB - BBB
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 25 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H3, H3, H3, H3 - H2, H2, H3, H3, H3
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
T Level - M
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
---|---|---|
IELTS (Academic) | 6 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. |
PTE Academic | 54 | An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill. |
TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components |
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
EU | £9535 | Year 1 |
England | £9535 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9535 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9535 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9535 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9535 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £9535 | Year 1 |
International | £17900 | Year 1 |
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
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP