Games Design BA (Hons)
Teesside University, Middlesbrough
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**Course overview**: Ever played a computer game and thought you could design something better? Or been so gripped by one that you wish you had come up with the idea? Then think about a course in games design. The games designer makes great ideas become real, designing the rules and structure of a game and implementing them in the game engine. It involves working with many different people, understanding the roles of specialists who need to work together to create games. You develop 2D and 3D ...Read more


Course overview

: Ever played a computer game and thought you could design something better? Or been so gripped by one that you wish you had come up with the idea? Then think about a course in games design. The games designer makes great ideas become real, designing the rules and structure of a game and implementing them in the game engine. It involves working with many different people, understanding the roles of specialists who need to work together to create games. You develop 2D and 3D design skills alongside an appreciation of game mechanics and its relationship to game play, including conceptual, story, character, level and visual design. You also study game engines and industry technologies and compare their capabilities.


Top reasons to study this course

1. Industry links: take part in Animex, our annual international animation and games festival featuring experts from Rockstar, Pixar, Disney and Sony.2. Real-world experience: enter GameJam events, take part in industry competitions and Beta test upcoming games before they are released.3. Career-ready: our ExpoSeries of events allow you to showcase your skills to industry professionals who are seeking to recruit new and rising talent.4. Start-up business support: we support you to develop your own business in games through our innovative Power UP Indie Games Accelerator.


After the course

: This degree offers the skills you need for a career in the games industry and provides generic skills which open up numerous other career paths. Some of our graduates have been recognised as being among the world's best young games development talent, and feature in Develop magazine's annual 30 under 30. Employment opportunities include creative director, games designer, scriptwriter, level designer, interface designer and games tester. Graduates from our games degrees have gone on to work as level designers, junior game designers, mission designers and artists in a wide range of companies including 3rd Dimensions, Atomic Planet, Bizarre Creations, Creative Assembly, Eutechnyx, Halch, Media Molecule, Microsoft Rare, Naughty Dog, Ninja Theory, Frontier Rebellion, Rockstar North, Sega, Streamline, Supermassive Games, Traveller's Tales, Ubisoft, Venom, Virtual Playground, Volatile, Weta Digital and many more.

Key stats

CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2024
62nd
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2024
92nd
Computer Science
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 - 85 = 15% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
15%
Employment rate
Employment rate
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85%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Computer Science graduate salary at this uni
£17,000
UK Computer Science graduate salary
£20,000
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Scottish Higher

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UCAS Tariff:

96 - 112 Grades / Points required

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Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017):

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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

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Must include art or design subject.

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Art & Design.

Must include art or design subject.

Art & Design or Design & Technology or Graphical Communication.

Popular A-level subjects

Computer Science

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

Mathematics
26%
Computing
24%
Information & Communication technology
22%
Art & Design
20%
Media Studies
15%
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England

£9,250 per year

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Students from Scotland

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Students from Wales

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

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£17,000 per year

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£17,000 per year

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Teesside University, Middlesbrough
Teesside University, Middlesbrough , Tees Valley

Based on its vibrant campus in the heart of Middlesbrough in North East England, Teesside University is a friendly, modern...

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Teesside University, Middlesbrough
Borough Road Middlesbrough Stockton-On-Tees TS1 3BX United Kingdom
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