IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each skill
Build your technical and creative skills and prepare for a career in video game design, with a focus on virtual reality gaming.
This games design and development degree combines all the aspects of theory, practice and technology essential to your future career. You'll learn games programming and discover the creative aspects of the games industry through practical projects. Our pathway in virtual reality gives you a chance to focus on an exciting and fast-growing sector within gaming.
This degree is ideal preparation for careers in the thriving video games industry. Graduates have been employed in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality focused companies, such as the award-winning Rewind, Sky VR, and architects Arup, as well as smaller independent studios.
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Year 1
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
Games and Interactive Systems (30 credits)
Object Oriented Programming for Games and Digital Media (15 credits)
3D Modelling (15 credits)
Digital Media Design (15 credits)
Programming for Games and Digital Media (15 credits)
Digital Media Technology (15 credits)
Mathematics for Computer Science (15 credits)
Year 2
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
Games Design and Development (30 credits)
Installation Development Project (15 credits)
Principles of Virtual Reality (30 credits)
Group Project (30 credits)
Research Methods for Games and Digital Media (15 credits)
Year 3
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
Advanced Games Design and Development (30 credits)
Final Year Projects (60 credits)
Advanced Virtual Reality (30 credits)
Former Games and Digital Media students have secured placement years at Disney, Space Ape Games, Nickelodeon, and Warner Brothers.
Career destinations include the independent and mobile games sectors as programmers, modellers and designers, the Augmented, Virtual and Mixed reality developers, UI and UX designers for digital media and games, games content creators and deliverers, back-end developers and content managers.
Recent positions secured by Games Design and Digital Media graduates include Motion Capture Technician at The Imaginarium Studios, Serious Games Developer at Arup, Software Engineer at Bossa Studios, and Creative Product Specialist at Celtra.
Insurance - Single: 300 (£) per year
