BA (Hons) Games Design and Art

Combine the creative side of games design with essential technical knowledge. If you want to make unique new games and take your ambitious ideas into emerging games markets, platforms and spaces, this is the programme for you. Youll cover design, illustration, character creation, animation and storytelling, as well as coding and digital production.Youll work in your own studios on campus as part of a vibrant, creative environment designed to mirror the collaborative practices of games companies and the creative industries.Youll learn to apply design-thinking to the creation of brand new games and refine them through research-led creative investigation, making, prototyping and user testing.Youll explore the full spectrum of gaming, including screen-based (video) games, augmented and virtual reality game-making, alongside the physical production of products such as location-based games, board games, card games and escape rooms. Youll also cover the emerging fields of purposeful games and serious games, and explore how games can be designed to have social impact and cultural significance.

A-levels- BBB including an art, design, media, humanities or creative IT based subject

A-levels additional information
A Level offers typically exclude General Studies and Critical Thinking.


A-levels with Extended Project Qualification
If you are taking an EPQ in addition to 3 A levels, you will receive the following offer in addition to the standard A level offer: BBC and grade A in the EPQ.

A-levels contextual offer
We are committed to ensuring that all applicants with the potential to succeed, regardless of their background, are encouraged to apply to study with us. The additional information gained through contextual data allows us to recognise an applicant's potential to succeed in the context of their background and experience. Applicants who are highlighted in this way will be made an offer which is lower than the typical offer for that programme, as follows:
BBC including an art, design, media, humanities or creative IT based subject

International Baccalaureate Diploma- Pass, with 30 points overall with 15 points at Higher Level including an art, design, media, humanities or creative IT based subject

IELTS - overall score 6.5 with other component (reading, writing, speaking, listening - 6.0)
TOEFL iBT- 92