Games Design (Top Up)

Hugh Baird College
Undergraduate BA (Hons) Blended learning (full-time) 1 Year Computer games and animation

UCAS Points

240 points

About this course

The BA (Hons) Top up in Games Design aims to further enhance skills and career opportunities in the games industry.

This course has been designed to build on existing design related experience and help further develop and support students to fulfil their ambitions and function professionally in the design arena.

The entire focus for this course will be on developing a proposal for a game, culminating in your Honours Project.

On the top up course, you will enhance your passion for high level ideas generation in your chosen pathway and will develop the links between technology and the user. The course also helps you undertake the professional networking possibilities communicating with leading industries in your field to set the fundamental foundations needed to ‘go it alone’ or as part of a team when you graduate.

You may have the opportunity to work on live projects from the games industry, working to real deadlines and expressing your own creative ideas and skills through your project work; all using the latest games software.

Core aspects of your work will be visualisation and digital modelling and you will develop a rich portfolio that will showcase your skills.

Entry Requirements

UCAS Tariff Points 240 points

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

2141 Web design professionals
3131 IT operations technicians
2139 Information technology professionals
2134 Programmers and software development professionals
2136 IT quality and testing professionals
3132 IT user support technicians

Course Details

Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Study Mode
Blended learning (full-time)
Duration
1 Year
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Liverpool
Scheme
Undergraduate
Subjects
Computer games and animation