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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Futureworks (Manchester)
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
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 you’ve graduated.
It also means that you can be confident that the skills and techniques you learn are relevant to today’s 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. We’re 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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