Games Design (Hons) University of Surrey

Overview

Develop your technical skills across coding, digital production and graphics, animation and audio, with a course that puts you at the heart of this dynamic sector. 

The  Games Design (Hons) program at University of Surrey  will focus on game design game narratives, settings, infrastructures and effects, possibilities and scenarios. Students will work on gameplay, interaction and playability as well as designing levels within games, visual effects and soundscapes.

Career

The university offers careers information, advice and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to the alumni for three years after leaving the University.

The games industry is part of the wider creative media sector and we have seen employment in the creative industries grow at five-times the rate of the rest of the UK economy since 2011. 

Games that people play need to be built, updated and maintained by games experts and as a result games-related skills are in high demand all over the world. 

This course will equip you with the knowledge, skills and expertise which will open up opportunities not only within the games industry itself but also in an exciting set of existing and emerging areas. For example: virtual production, Realtime Animation and VFX, Gen-AI content creation and more. The core competencies you can develop in areas such as animation, 3D environment creation, digital and video game design and production, and prototyping, continue to be very much in demand across a range of media sectors.   

The digital creative-related roles/jobs this course will prepare you for include: 

• Computer games designer/developer/programmer
• Computer games tester/analyst
• Game artist
• Games writer
• Game sound designer 
• Software developer
• AI programmer
• Technical animator
• UX/UI designer.