Games Design and Development

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

Start dates: Apply now for September 2025, November 2025 or January 2026 - visit www.tees.ac.uk/london/studentlife 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.

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 games design and development 1. Industry links: take part in Animex, our annual international animation and games festival featuring experts from Rockstar, Pixar, Disney and Sony. 2. Real-world experience: enter GameJam events, take part in industry competitions and Beta test upcoming games before they are released. 3. Career-ready: our ExpoSeries of events allow you to showcase your skills to industry professionals who are seeking to recruit new and rising talent. 4. Scholarships: you could be eligible for a £9,000 scholarship to support your studies (excluding those applying to the foundation year).

After the course: This degree provides the skills you need for a career in the games industry as well as the generic skills to open up so many other career paths. You can work as a creative director, games designer, scriptwriter, level designer, interface designer and games tester.