Computer Games MSc

<strong>This course is temporarily suspended for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 academic years.</strong><br/><br/>Both for entertainment and for more serious purposes such as virtual reality training, computer games, gamification, and games intelligences are increasingly important in todays world. This is your opportunity to turn your passion into a career.<br/><br/>At Essex we specialise in virtual worlds, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and high-level games design and development. On our course, you develop both theoretical and practical knowledge of computer games. Our flexible approach allows you to fill gaps in your knowledge and brush up on a variety of languages, making sure youre ready to bring your designs to life.<br/><br/>You explore topics including:<br/><br/><br/>- game design<br/><br/><br/>- game AI<br/><br/><br/>- 3D games development<br/><br/><br/>- mobile app programming<br/><br/><br/>- physics-based games<br/><br/><br/>Our School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering is a community of scholars leading the way in technological research and development. Todays computer scientists are creative people who are focused and committed, yet restless and experimental. We are home to many of the worlds top scientists, and our work is driven by creativity and imagination as well as technical excellence. Thats why we are ranked 6th in the UK for research power in computer science (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021).