Study Details: MA Part Time: 2 years, Full Time: within 1 year (September start), 16 months (January start) or 2 years with advanced practice (September or January start).
Our MA Games Design covers both advanced theoretical and practical strands ensuring you are fully literate in areas such as complex gameplay design, project management, advanced mission design and gameplay implementation.
You develop key transferable skills such as advanced presentation skills and are encouraged to creatively experiment with ways of conveying concepts and information.
The course develops your prototyping skills and knowledge in relation to game design to prepare you for a career in the games industry. You gain advanced practical skills required for complex mission design and implementation, as well as the ability to create advanced gameplay scenarios and professional design documents. You learn to tackle complex game development scenarios and apply advanced game management techniques, ensuring projects are organised in a professional manner from pre-production through production, delivery and project closure. You study advanced concepts relating to optimisation of games and create a game prototype with consideration for industry level design roles.
You will normally have a first degree (2.2 minimum) in a relevant subject such as games design, games development, games programming or computer science. In addition, international students will require IELTS 6.0 or equivalent. For general information please see our overview of entry requirements.
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We prepare you for a career in industry. In addition to your taught classes, we create opportunities for you to meet and network with our industry partners through events such as our ExpoSeries, which showcases student work to industry. ExpoTees is the pinnacle of the ExpoSeries with over 100 businesses from across the UK coming to the campus to meet our exceptional students, with a view to recruitment.
Core modules
Advanced Game Mechanics
Advanced Mission Design
Game Design Optimisation
Game Design Roles
Game Group Project
Games Management
Master’s Project
Advanced practice (2 year full-time MA only)
Internship
Modules offered may vary.
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