If you’re hoping to make a career out of your passion for video games, then game design could be the right program for you. You’ll learn how to design the next best selling game and market it to consumers across the world.
Once just a fun hobby, video games have now transformed into a multi-billion pound industry. You’ll study every stage of the game design process, including original concepts, prototype development, testing, and evaluation. As well as honing your technical skills in coding and programming, you’ll consider the theories behind successful games.
Studying abroad is the best way to truly understand the global scale and influence of the games industry. You’ll learn about the interests and behaviors of different cultural markets, and see how consumer trends vary around the world.
Game Design program structure
- Character animation techniques
- Scripting for games
- Theory of games design
- Concept and design
- Prototype development
- Games engine creation
- Algorithms and data structures
- 3D modeling
Future game design careers
- Games developer
- Games programmer
- Games tester
- Animator
- Software developer
- Web designer
- Data scientist
- Systems analyst