Games Design and Development Certificate of Higher Education - CertHE

International students: This course is not available for international applicants requiring a Student Visa.

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

This one year Certificate of Higher Education is ideal if you want to experience the benefits of university-level education before committing to study a full degree. We support you all the way - maybe you've been out of education for a while, didn't get the grades first time round or want to retrain in a new field.

Ever played a computer game and thought you could design something better? A games designer makes great ideas become real, designing the rules and structure of a game, and implementing them in a game engine.

You learn by doing, under the guidance of professionals and industry-experienced tutors, alongside fellow students all passionate about this field. Networking opportunities include Animex, our annual high-profile international animation and games festival.

This course is ideal if you want to experience the benefits of university-level education before committing to study a full games design degree. We support you all the way – maybe you've been out of education for a while, didn't get the grades first time round or want to retrain in a new field.

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.