Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Games Design and Development (Sandwich Year)

Students will explore the multi-faceted world of games design and development, from storyboarding, concept development and prototyping to creative development, quality assurance and testing, enabling students to translate their ideas into playable games. This course focuses on games design and development, aiming to equip students with the skills and knowledge to conceptualise, build and test their own playable games. The concept-to-playable prototype approach aims to give students industry applicable skills. The course aims to equip students with the skills for employment with developers of all sizes, working across various technologies and platforms. On successful completion of this course, students may take on roles ranging from community manager, games producer, or games publisher, to gameplay designer, level designer, UX designer, Quality Assurance (QA) tester or games writer. Students should have developed an understanding of the key priorities for the games industry, such as the recent change in working patterns, equality, diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition and retention, and an understanding of cultural and commercial priorities, by engaging in real-world scenarios and collaborative opportunities and embedding theoretical and applied-practical exploration of sustainability, representation, player experience, and emerging areas of practice.