Ready to start turning your game ideas into reality and build the foundation for a career in game design? Then this is the module for you.

You’ll cover key principles like game objects, rules, mechanics, goals and conflict.

You’ll learn to apply these concepts by developing your own game ideas and bringing them to life in engines like Unity and Unreal.

With hands-on experience you'll build environments, prototype mechanics, and learn essential scripting skills.

You’ll also dive into production tools like iterative design and documentation. Giving you the skills to create and manage your own game projects.

Take the first step toward shaping the future of gaming today.

Develop your 2D design skills to help you develop and produce media projects from lens-based to videogames. Explore the use of concept art in pre-production and develop practical experience of generating 2D video game assets.

The creation and implementation of effective audio is central to game design –supporting dramatic story-telling, immersion, interactivity, game mechanics, as well as emotional and physiological engagement. In this module you will explore some of the creative and technical challenges faced when designing and implementing game audio. The knowledge and skills you acquire in this module will help you to use audio more effectively in your own game projects and will inform future collaborative work with audio practitioners and interdisciplinary creative teams.

As media students, you will develop your creative thinking and problem-solving skills through learning the principles and practice of 3D Design. You will learn the basics of modelling, textures, 3D painting and rendering, and design your own 3D animation and portfolio.

This module will introduce the ideas, techniques and working practices to realise complete game ready video game environments. By creating your own game environment, you will explore game engines from an art perspective, how to create game ready assets, learn about lighting principles, texturing, 3D, and develop an understanding f environment art pipelines as well as enhancing your creative thinking skills and problem solving abilities. At the end of the project you will have a piece of work that you can display in your portfolio which will help you on your journey into the gaming industry.

In order to create innovative and original game experiences, it’s important to understand where games came from and the current landscape of the games industry. In this module you will explore the historical, social and political contexts of games, play and design. We’ll look at how to analyse games, how games get made, the people that make them and games from a consumer perspective. The module will perform analysis on video games and its industry including topics such as gender, representation, misogyny in video games, Law, ethics, regulation and censorship. will consider sustainable game development practices and generate original concepts for game designs that could “change the world”.

This module is designed to introduce the ideas, techniques and working practices to create particle and visual FX for video games. You will explore how to create VFX for environments, animations and gameplay scenarios as well as developing creative thinking skills important for artists who want to break into the gaming industry.

Choose your own specialism and work with other students from various disciplines as you work together to develop a complete game project. The module presents the opportunity to learn from one another, to develop new skills and apply fresh approaches. Practice important skills such as team work, project management and communication as you work collaboratively to produce a high quality game project that can be used as a portfolio piece upon graduation.

Excessive guidance markers, compasses and mini maps can often feel contrived in video games. A well designed level should be able to guide the player using the landscape and the game environment. Find out how you can do this in your own games as we explore principles and theories of level design and put them into practice by making a 3D version of an imagined game world. In this module you will look at generating suitable level designs and prototyping them in a level blockout. We will explore building 3D environments using geometry and terrain and adding interaction through scripting game logic to enhance the players journey.