Our approach to teaching has been specifically designed to support students who are keen to make games, but who haven’t yet built the full range of technical and creative skills required. We’ll teach you these skills with a focus on collaboration and team projects. In the first semester of each year, you’ll learn a variety of practical development skills (perhaps in GameMaker, Unity, Unreal, 3D modelling and animation, 2D animation, narrative, theory, and industry production skills – dependent on the modules you select), and then in the second semester, you’ll apply these skills to make a game (or series of games). By teaching this way you’ll get a chance to learn the skills and then apply them practically to make several projects, and in doing so you’ll develop many transferrable skills that are in demand for employment in games but also a wide range of related industries. Our students quickly become confident in developing and articulating ideas, forming and managing teams to complete projects, and then showing these games to the industry and public at the many different game expos and industry events that we take part in. Our students have demoed their games at A.MAZE Berlin, EGX Rezzed, UK GAMES EXPO, and many other regional events. All of our students are UKIE members, giving them access to essential industry information and support, and we are a Tranzfuser local hub, meaning that we support students in partnership with industry to follow their dreams to start up new games studios.
Our staff are passionate about games, passionate about supporting students, and passionate about the potential of your game project ideas. The staff and students on the degree are part of a wider community of creative practitioners in the School of Creative Arts and Industries that includes performers, composers, producers, game designers, photographers, and dancers, and we hope you’ll take advantage of the opportunity to gain inspiration from this diverse group to help expand and enhance your own creative practice.
You can see some student work from the School here: School of Creative Arts and Industries
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We're always keen to hear from potential students, please do get in touch if you have any questions about the course, want to visit one of our many open-day events, or want to tell us about the cool things that you're working on and the things you want to make in future.