Games Design

Why choose this course
-Our Games Design BSc is flexible so you can tailor your degree to your own passions, from animation, coding, visual arts, game design, technology, motion capture, acting, soundscapes, writing for games to textual analysis and games studies.

-This is a brand new and exciting course for September 2025. You'll develop the skills to help you make your mark in what has been a rapidly evolving series of global industries that increasingly cross over to almost every area of the creative sector including the games industries.

-You’ll benefit from specialist and multidisciplinary expertise from across the University. Here at Surrey, we have dedicated teaching staff in the areas of animation, coding, visual arts, technology, motion capture, acting, soundscapes, games design, textual analysis, machine-learning and creative writing.

-Studying at the University of Surrey you’ll be in the heart of one of the UK’s largest video games clusters right here in Guildford.

-Benefit from our industry connections and guest lectures with games developers from across the UK and overseas.

-You’ll have the option to take one of our award-winning Professional Training placements that will prepare you for roles in a broad range of games-facing industries as well as the games industries themselves.

What you will study
Our Games Design BSc at Surrey has been built with your employability in mind. Our specialist and multidisciplinary approach incorporates coding, game design, animation, producing, creative writing and/or sound design. All of this maximises students’ options for employability, skills and career routes after graduation.

We have carefully designed our Games Design BSc to respond to and leverage the latest advances in:

-Games engines and Realtime Rendering Technologies
-Games design
-CGI content creation
-Character animation
-2D/3D environment design
-3D modelling and animation
-Realtime VFX
-Visualisation and 2D animation
-Real-time virtual environments
-Performance
-Contemporary game and play-focused narrative
-Screenwriting and broader creative writing specialisms
-Machine-learning and generative-AI techniques
-Level design
-Gameplay programming
-Visual scripting
-Music and sound for games.