Games Design and Development Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

Location: This Teesside University award is delivered at our London Here East campus, part of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Start dates: Visit https://www.tees.ac.uk/london/ for details.

Course overview\
Ever played a computer game and thought you could design something better? We’re sure you can. A computer games designer makes great ideas become real, designing the rules and structure of a game, and implementing them in a game engine. You work with so many different people, understanding the roles of specialists who need to work together to create games.

Study here and you develop your 2D and 3D design skills. You also develop an appreciation of game mechanics and its relationship to game play including conceptual, story, character, level and visual design. And you study game engines and industry technologies and compare their capabilities.

Top reasons to study this course

* Industry links: take part in Animex, our annual international animation and games festival featuring experts from Rockstar, Pixar, Disney and Sony.

* Real-world experience: enter GameJam events, take part in industry competitions and Beta test upcoming games before they’re released.

* Career-ready: our ExpoSeries allows you to showcase your skills to industry professionals who are looking to recruit new and rising talent.

* Start-up business support: we support you to develop your own business in games through our Power UP Indie Games Accelerator.

Employability\
This course provides the skills you need for a career in the games industry and well as the generic skills to open up so many other career paths. Some of our graduates have been recognised as being among the world's best young games development talent, and featured in Develop magazine's annual 30 under 30. You can work as a creative director, games designer, scriptwriter, level designer, interface designer and games tester.

Graduates have gone on to work as level designers, junior game designers, mission designers and artists in a range of companies including 3rd Dimensions, Atomic Planet, Bizarre Creations, Creative Assembly, Eutechnyx, Halch, Media Molecule, Microsoft Rare, Naughty Dog, Ninja Theory, Frontier Rebellion, Rockstar North, Sega, Streamline, Supermassive Games, Traveller's Tales, Ubisoft, Venom, Virtual Playground, Volatile, Weta Digital and so many more.