Games Design

The Games Design program, offered by Teesside University, covers both advanced theoretical and practical strands ensuring you are fully literate in areas such as complex gameplay design, project management, advanced mission design and gameplay implementation.

The Games Design program, offered by Teesside University ,develops your prototyping skills and knowledge in relation to game design to prepare you for a career in the games industry. You gain advanced practical skills required for complex mission design and implementation, as well as the ability to create advanced gameplay scenarios and professional design documents.

You learn to tackle complex game development scenarios and apply advanced game management techniques, ensuring projects are organised in a professional manner from pre-production through production, delivery and project closure.

You study advanced concepts relating to optimisation of games and create a game prototype with consideration for industry level design roles.

Career opportunities

We prepare you for a career in industry. In addition to your taught classes, we create opportunities for you to meet and network with our industry partners through events such as our ExpoSeries, which showcases student work to industry. ExpoTees is the pinnacle of the ExpoSeries with over 100 businesses from across the UK coming to the campus to meet our exceptional students, with a view to recruitment.

Courses include:

• Advanced Game Mechanics

• Advanced Mission Design

• Game Design Optimisation

• Game Design Roles

• Game Group Project

• Games Management

• Master's Project