Program Overview

Games Development (with Foundation Year) BSc (Hons)

Overview

This course prepares you for a wide range of roles in game development, blending game design with hands-on coding and scripting. You develop the technical and creative skills needed to thrive in the games industry.

Course Details

Foundation Year Core Modules

• Case Studies: Analytical review of a text within your area of interest.
• Foundation Game: Create a small game using a contemporary game engine.
• Non-digital Game Development: Explore theories and methods for game and spatial designs in board games, card games, escape rooms, games of chance, collaborative play, and spaces of outside play.
• Visual Scripting Principles: Fundamentals of blocking out assets or levels for initial design in a current game engine complemented with visual scripting.

Year 1 Core Modules

• Game Creation: Skills for game creation using a contemporary game engine.
• Game Programming Fundamentals: Programming constructs that apply to multiple object-oriented programming languages, focusing on C++.
• Gameplay Scripting: Apply core scripting concepts to solve practical development problems and build gameplay elements in a modern game engine.
• Industry Briefs: Work on an individual artefact related to a game experience using a brief set by industry.

Year 2 Core Modules

• Games Business, Marketing, and Publishing: Examine new trends and business models for games development.
• Journeyman: Work with students from across all games courses to develop a game slice in a team.
• Programming for Game Engines: Low-level scripting available in modern game engines.
• Technical Design: Enhance knowledge of technical game design and development, identifying opportunities in production and gameplay experiences.

Optional Work Placement Year

• Work Placement: Spend one year in industry learning and developing your skills.

Final-Year Core Modules

• Advanced Development Techniques: Extend knowledge of modern development techniques and principles commonly used within the games industry.
• Beta Arcade: Experience working as a member of a games development team, in a setup that is as close to industrial practice as possible.
• Games Project: Undertake a large-scale project guided by a member of staff, producing a substantial piece of work related to your course alongside a written report.

Entry Requirements

• Any combination of level 3 qualifications. Each application is considered on a case-by-case basis.

Employability

• This course provides a range of technical and design skills, making you the perfect candidate for a career as an independent games developer.
• Entrepreneurial support from University-based Launchpad helps you to start your career as an independent developer or small company.

Information for International Applicants

• International applicants can find out what qualifications they need by visiting the university's website.

Tuition Fees

• UK applicants: £9,535 a year
• International applicants: £17,000 a year

Duration

• 4 years (5 with work placement)

UCAS Code

• I607 BSc/GDevFY

Start Date

• September

Campus

• Teesside University, Middlesbrough

Accessibility

• The university's Disability Services team provides an inclusive and empowering learning environment and has specialist staff to support disabled students.