BA (Hons) Games Design
Futureworks
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Do you love games and have a curiosity for the creative and technical decisions that bring them to life? At Futureworks, our games design degree will prepare you for this exciting and fast-moving industry. Our graduates are now working with games developers such as Supermassive Games, Sumo Digital, Rockstar, Rebellion Games, Ubisoft, d3t, Codemasters, Lucid Games, Team17, Cloud Imperium Games to name a few.Game MechanicsCreative ThinkingScriptingGame History and Theory3D ModellingGame ...Read more

Do you love games and have a curiosity for the creative and technical decisions that bring them to life? At Futureworks, our games design degree will prepare you for this exciting and fast-moving industry. Our graduates are now working with games developers such as Supermassive Games, Sumo Digital, Rockstar, Rebellion Games, Ubisoft, d3t, Codemasters, Lucid Games, Team17, Cloud Imperium Games to name a few.

Game Mechanics

Creative Thinking

Scripting

Game History and Theory

3D Modelling

Game Development

Why Choose The Games Design Degree at Futureworks?

All our teaching staff are very active in the games industry. They have experience developing award-winning games with AAA games development companies. What this means for you is that we have great connections in the real world – connections that you can use to start building your professional network, before youve graduated.

It also means that you can be confident that the skills and techniques you learn are relevant to todays industry.

With outstanding guest lectures and workshops, and the opportunity to work on live project briefs, this degree will ensure that you gain the experience to give your games career a flying start.

One aspect of this course that is particularly loved by past students are the small class sizes. This allows our tutors to provide lots of personalised one-to-one mentoring, allowing you to develop the skills that will be important in your preferred specialisms.

Being part of the Futureworks family means you also get to work with film and audio students, and collaborate on a range of interesting and innovative projects.

Your Games Design Career Opportunities

This Games Design degree provides a fantastic springboard into the games industry for future Games Designers, Level Designers, Prop and Asset Modellers, or even into Production Management roles. Were proud to say that past students are currently working throughout the industry, from major game companies to small independents – or even start your own company like one group of Futureworks students did (Torque Studios) to enter a national competition. They won the competition, picking up a £25,000 prize which helped fund their first game which was nominated in the BAFTA games awards.

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Design Studies
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 90 = 10% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
10%
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75%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Design Studies graduate salary at this uni
£16,000
UK Design Studies graduate salary
£18,000
What students say
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Johnathan
23 Feb 24

I love the university that I’m currently studying at, they are a small university so that means you can have 1on1 with your teachers as often as you need, the location is easy for..Read more

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Joseph
21 Feb 24

This is a great university and course to come to if you are coming to university for a good education, this uni feels very focused on providing a great education for their..Read more

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£17,000 per year

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Futureworks
Riverside, New Bailey St Manchester M3 5FS United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Deansgate  0.2 miles away
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