I'm Stewart, I’m the program director of the
BA Game Design course here at the University of Hull.
And on the course, you'll be doing a lot of practical work.
There's no exams involved at all.
We are just making sure that our students on the course
are making games and they're having a fun time doing it.
You'll be using all the latest game engines like Unreal Engine and Unity,
and you'll be making kind of 3D artwork that will go into those games.
When we designed the program, we collaborated with employers
within the sector because we wanted to make sure
that our graduates were employable and had the skills that they needed.
And one of the things that they came back to us
was that they wanted them to work in team projects and have a good team skills.
And so we work with...
we have a lot of collaboration in our projects.
So students are working together to make games, but also they identified
that they want graduates to have what's known as a T-shaped skill set
where they have one particular specialism, for example, 3D modelling,
but they can also jump on to other aspects of game design, such as
scripting in engines or animation or 2D art or UI design.
And that's really helpful for particularly kind of
smaller studios where they need people to jump onto different projects.
And so our program allows you to kind of develop that specialism
whilst also being exposed to all these other aspects of game design.
We’ve had a really lot of good graduate success from the course.
One of our graduates is a game designer at a studio based in Leeds,
and he was working on Hogwarts Legacy and he was kind of making some of the
missions where you're on the broomstick and those kinds of things.
We also have a recent graduate who came first place
in the game design category for the Game Republic Student Showcase.
And this is a regional kind of competition of other institutions
with similar game design courses.
And it's a real testament to the potential
talent that our students can have at the end of the course that they
you know, they came first place in that.
If you want to find out more about the game design course
or see some examples of work created by our students, visit
the University of Hull website or come and talk to us on one
of our upcoming Open Days.