Games Design

BSc (Hons) Games Design provides you with the skills you need to become a games designer in the fast-paced modern games industry. This is a hands-on course and from the very start you’ll be designing and coding games as you prepare for an exciting career at the cutting-edge of interactive digital content.

You’ll study across the School of Digital Arts and the Department of Computing and Mathematics with access to our state-of-the-art facilities as you develop the coding and player-centric design skills you’ll need to create games, as well as the required specialist games design techniques. You’ll study all types of industry-relevant games making software, from the programming of game mechanics to high-level design using industry standard game engines. Alongside this, you’ll learn about scene and level composition, the production of game prototypes, and the processes used to design and code games in industry, giving you a well-rounded skill set for your future career.

The course is designed to ensure direct relevance to the computer games industry, and to provide you with opportunities to showcase your work to potential employers. Throughout your studies, you’ll be supported to build a portfolio of work that you can use for future job applications in the games design industry.

With game jams and the potential to take on a work placement to hone your skills, by the time you leave us you’ll be well on your way to becoming a player in the action-packed world of computer games.

This course is available with the option of a foundation year.

Features and benefits

• You will be part of SODA, a £35m investment into specialist spaces with the latest technologies, award-winning teaching, research and networks that will drive the next generation of creative content.

• Gain the knowledge and skills to enter employment as an industry-ready games designer.

• Experience what it’s like to work as part of a professional team, finding solutions to complex problems through group projects.

• Benefit from cutting edge resources and the broad skills base of the SODA community.

• You'll be immersed in a dynamic, thriving creative community, where exciting events and opportunities are constantly unfolding— check out the latest happenings on our news page.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS