Games Art & Design

Join our Games Art and Design degree course and start on your path towards a career in the booming UK video game industry.

Designed for ambitious students, this programme focuses on character and environment design, emphasising visual narrative and play.

Our inspiring staff will guide you to develop the creativity needed for success in games design. As part of our dynamic School of Art and Media, you’ll enjoy a community that values experimentation and creativity.

The course includes engaging lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, and field trips. Graduate with the skills to research, develop, and produce professional-standard work for this fast-paced industry.

TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE THIS COURSE
- The course covers games mechanics and architecture, and experimental image making, visual effects, asset creation and concept art.

- You’ll learn storytelling through imaginative projects using linear and non-linear narratives.

- Games design is explored in response to contemporary culture and society.

- There is a final year placement module giving you the chance to make industry connections and gain valuable experience

- There are opportunities to collaborate with other disciplines including music, sound art and design.

- We take an experimental approach and blur the boundaries between digital and analogue processes.

- You will be learning in a city with a thriving digital industry with opportunities for building connections.

- We integrate theory and practice, so you graduate with a strong foundation in both fields.

- Your lecturers are a team of industry professionals.

- You will use specialist software and equipment.

- You will learn how to work to client briefs to collaborating with other disciplines, to self-promotion and use of social media.

- You'll be able to choose your own creative path through the degree with support from our dedicated course team.