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MSc - Master of Science
Stoke-on-Trent Campus
Part Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
Get a flying start in the games industry! As a game creator and designer, this is an opportunity for you to enhance your skills and build a portfolio of work to make an impact in modern video game design. Games designers have an impact on virtually every aspect of a game, from system design through to improving the immersive experience for players. Our MSc in Computer Games Design will place you at the heart of the action. You’ll dive into design theory and practice, the latest research and industry trends, and learn how to manage your own projects. You’ll also get to focus on the area you want to specialise in for a career. Whether it’s gameplay interactions, how characters move, quest design, open world environments or another aspect of design, the choice is yours. Our multi award-winning games department is one of the largest in the UK and you’ll be taught by leading experts with years of experience in games design and academia. You will also be able to tap into our industry links, including guest talks from games designers. On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: MSc Computer Games Design
Explore core competencies for delivering high impact projects within Games Development. Managing a project, moving forwards with concepting and communicating requirements, having a clear awareness of dependencies at multiple levels of your team requires advanced leadership skills. Research method aims to develop the necessary skills and knowledge for formulating a research problem and deliver it as a substantive proposal or work.
Master your games world, build the underpinning structures tying mechanics and player experience together. In this module you will analyse existing game systems, breaking down what makes them tick and then propose new systems that complement the existing games goals developing in-depth knowledge of systems design.
Explore your own Project, within your chosen field and skills. Demonstrate the culmination of your development towards industry ready talent with support and guidance of a supervisor.
Game feel is the intangible, tactile sensation you'll master in this module. Commercial games are frequently highly polished experiences that feel good to play, in this module you will learn how to breakdown the components of these games and apply the lessons to your own games to create polished, great feeling portfolio items.
In Advanced Prototyping you'll build a series of prototype assets for your portfolio. You'll work using contemporary industry style approaches and software to solve Games Design challenges using advanced research and problem solving.
Games are increasingly becoming the focus for research due to their cultural and economic impact on modern society. However, there are many different types of approaches and methods than can be applied to understanding games or those that play games. Advanced games design involves the process of design and create games, as well as exploring new areas of game design through research. In this module, we also use scientific methods to create and study effective and engaging games.
Students will learn the professional skills required to foster innovation and creativity in gaming industries. Topics include innovation and intellectual property; fundraising strategies and models; contracts, work-rates, and business ethics. The overall goal is for students to gain an understanding of the importance of developing and owning intellectual property and the characteristics and benefits of working in small production teams.
