Computer Games Production BSc (Hons)

You'll gain an appreciation for the knowledge and skills required to effectively manage and operate a business. Topics covered include core concepts in business studies, understanding the business environment, different forms of business structures, business strategy and planning, enterprise, innovation, and entrepreneurship. You'll also delve into basic financial statements, key financial ratios, costs, budgeting, an introduction to marketing concepts, and creating marketing plans.

You'll focused on developing student ability to translate ideas to hand drawings and sketches as an important part of the design process. Successful completion of this module indicates that you will  have obtained a good understanding of and ability to apply the requisite basic Design Concepts knowledge and skills.

Collect, assess and evaluate a variety of data required to undertake a design project.

Understand the structure of the design through transformation and convergent stages. The principal phases from consideration of market need through specification, conceptual designs, feasibility, detail design to manufacture, modification, development, use and retirement.

The module introduces candidates to the interesting challenges that ICT presents today and covers many anchor points that may serve as a bridge to their interests and lifestyles.

It also means you understand the value of scholarships, allowing you to move on to postgraduate programs at the University of Portsmouth.

Completing this module demonstrates a strong understanding and application of essential mathematical skills.

Successful completion of this module indicates that students have obtained a good understanding of and ability to understand and rationalise aspects of emerging New Media; and indicates that students have obtained a good understanding of and ability to apply the requisite basic understanding and critical thinking skills to enable them to proceed to a range of programmes at the University.

Completing this module will allow you to demonstrate a strong understanding of programming concepts and the ability to apply basic programming knowledge and skills.

The module will give students the basic tools to conduct research using either qualitative or quantitative methodologies.

It will also enhance comprehension and interpretation of the mechanics of argumentation; the ability to effectively evaluate the rationale of argument and evidence to support claims; assess the credibility of sources made in claims; and formulate and deliver both verbally and in writing well-structured and critically reasoned arguments and opinions.

You’ll practice various modeling techniques, from box modelling to sculpting. Master the art of asset creation that meets specific project requirements.

By assessing basic principles and their impact on final results, you’ll develop advanced technical skills. With your creative thinking and understanding of procedures, you'll excel in 3D roles and unlock new possibilities.

By practising texture and movement rendering techniques using analogue mediums, you’ll develop your drawing prowess.

By the end of the module, you’ll be able to bridge principles of visual communication with emerging tools for crafting emotive digital worlds.

You’ll work with different programming languages and APIs to show your understanding of technical terms. You’ll also master the control of game behaviors and data variables.

By recognising patterns in syntax, you’ll be able to write or forecast code outcomes accurately, establishing essential skills for creating functional game systems and mechanics.

You’ll test code and asset creation techniques aligned to brief specifications and actively identify and resolve product issues from visual bugs to interactive mechanics.

The collaborative context requires coherent documentation and excellent team communication.

By the end of the module you’ll be equipped with project lifecycle experience - from aligned ideation to an optimised, playable game demo.

Learn how gameplay mechanics, storytelling, and level design work together by studying successful games.

By looking at important academic sources, you’ll improve your academic writing skills and come up with original game concepts.

This module is ideal for developing your own design approach and generating marketable ideas for the entertainment industry.

By analysing case studies across game creation sectors, you’ll gain insight into economic and cultural drivers of success and failure.

You’ll use specialist abilities from art to engineering and have the invaluable opportunity to enrich your technical literacy - creating pieces of work as a team that are aligned to industry priorities.

In this module, you’ll work with others to explore game ideas from concept to execution. Learn how to do market research, business strategy, marketing planning, and pitching with lecturers’ guidance. Work on team projects and presentations to assess the usefulness of game concepts and plan for their commercial success.

By the end, you’ll have the entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration skills, and industry knowledge to set up your own studio or prosper in one.

You’ll evaluate communication strategies and lead discussions that align desired outcomes with audience needs.

By analysing management styles and work-life philosophies, you’ll devise balanced, ethical frameworks to enrich sustainable practices. With critical reflection, you’ll be equipped to champion inclusive spaces where all voices are valued - driving innovation through unity.

You’ll research, design, and develop a character and environment following an industry-standard brief. Create model sheets and mood boards to guide your 3D workflow and visualise your concepts as you take your asset from concept to finish. Finally, you will use professional real-time techniques to create a demo reel that shows your technical excellence.

This module will equip you with practical experience and key skills in creating triple-A game assets, VR/AR content, and other real-time 3D applications.

In this module, you'll generate and evaluate ideas that bring narrative concepts to life.

In the design process, you'll express your vision through composition, observation, and interpretation. Experiment with software to advance your surfacing, lighting, and rendering techniques, then use your new technical and creative skills to craft an animated short through performance and visual storytelling.

With this module, you can transform a story from page to screen using 3D animation and visualisation abilities. By the end, you'll have valuable experience in creating captivating characters and animated worlds.

You'll gain familiarity with common code patterns and mechanisms for implementing interactivity, guided by code analysis and experimentation.

Through programming challenges, you'll apply your skills to build small-scale yet engaging gameplay prototypes.

This module provides the core technical knowledge to start realising your visions as playable game experiences.

By evaluating different programming approaches, you'll develop the implementation skills to advance your game projects from concept to playable prototype.

You'll investigate major game engines and collaboratively evaluate their potential.

Choosing an appropriate technology, you'll undertake a hands-on project to build a small-scale game interface.

Through this focused task, you'll gain practical experience working with industry-standard tools.

By the end, you'll have developed core technical knowledge to start interfacing games using professional APIs.

Apply design theories and professional methods to produce playable versions of games across various genres. By testing these games and thinking critically, you’ll spot what’s working and what’s not, then hone your games bit by bit.

You’ll thoroughly analyse how to make games fair and exciting, discover how game elements can lead to new gameplay, and learn how to polish the game rules and play. You’ll take a game idea all the way to a refined prototype that’s ready to be turned into a digital game.

This module will boost your abilities in coming up with ideas, making paper prototypes, testing games, and refining them — all crucial skills for a budding game designer.

Above all, you’ll see how making prototypes quickly and getting user feedback lead to better games.

You'll gain familiarity with common code patterns and mechanisms for implementing interactivity, guided by code analysis and experimentation.

Through programming challenges, you'll apply your skills to build small-scale yet engaging gameplay prototypes.

This module provides the core technical knowledge to start realising your visions as playable game experiences.

By evaluating different programming approaches, you'll develop the implementation skills to advance your game projects from concept to playable prototype.

Apply design theories and professional methods to produce playable versions of games across various genres. By testing these games and thinking critically, you’ll spot what’s working and what’s not, then hone your games bit by bit.

You’ll thoroughly analyse how to make games fair and exciting, discover how game elements can lead to new gameplay, and learn how to polish the game rules and play. You’ll take a game idea all the way to a refined prototype that’s ready to be turned into a digital game.

This module will boost your abilities in coming up with ideas, making paper prototypes, testing games, and refining them — all crucial skills for a budding game designer.

Above all, you’ll see how making prototypes quickly and getting user feedback lead to better games.

Through a study exchange overseas, you'll manage tasks and projects relevant to your course, working independently or collaboratively as part of a team.

The experience enables you to showcase your talents on a global stage while reflecting on your personal growth. With enhanced employability prospects, you return home with a new perspective to inform your practice.

It will help develop your practical knowledge and collaborative abilities to thrive in the film and games industries.

You’ll use drawing to capture animal forms, structure, texture, and proportions. Relating visual research to the design process, you’ll develop industry-standard workflows, put your skills into practice through industry-led briefs and create professional-quality concepts and assets.

You can immerse yourself in the production pace and pipelines of entertainment studios through collaboration in a simulated studio environment.

You’ll finish this module with real-world creative experience and a portfolio of your design talents.

Join a team of creative students and do a project together. Try new things and see how they can help you.

You’ll also grasp how to use your skills with others. Sometimes you’ll be a leader, sometimes a helper. Talk about your ideas and learn from them. You’ll make something to show what you learned and share it with others.

This module helps you gain new skills and understand other fields. You’ll be a smart and creative person, ready to solve real-world problems.

You’ll choose learning tasks that add up to 60 hours, like internships, volunteering, research, or remote study that match your career plans. Workshops will help you make meaningful goals and think about what you’ve accomplished. Through this, you’ll grow the knowledge, skills, and qualities you need to thrive in the workplace.

By looking at your growth through active participation and reading, you’ll become a perceptive, eager job-seeker who stands out.

By evaluating concepts from algebra to trigonometry, you’ll grasp their integration and solve technical challenges to elevate product capabilities and optimise performance.

You’ll develop your problem solving skills through industry-inspired exercises, as this module provides crucial analytical foundations that are transferrable to programming roles - where mathematical fluency intersects with code to create dynamic interactive experiences.

You'll learn standard console hardware, software, and workflows. Create optimized software under console restrictions and use profiling tools for smooth gameplay. Develop pro-grade games with console dev kits, APIs, and documentation. This module upgrades console development skills for success in the games industry.

Get ready to ideate, plan, and execute games — tailored to market needs — to thrive as a game designer in industry.

As part of the design process, you’ll analyse game genres to understand mechanics, systems, and documentation. From that, you’ll create professional design documents for an original game concept and enrich your concept by evaluating commercial contexts to consider target platforms and audiences. In the last stage, your ideas will come to life through a digital prototype, presenting your gameplay and innovation.

By completing this module, you’ll gain first-hand experience of taking a game from concept to playable build.

Demonstrating project management and problem-solving skills, through critical analysis and experimentation, you'll produce a body of work that advances knowledge in your discipline.

Communicating scholarly outcomes with impact, you'll demonstrate your knowledge and abilities, drawing together your learning into a compelling self-directed showcase.

This is the culmination of your degree journey - proving your readiness for professional and academic challenges ahead.

Putting methodologies into practice, this module develops adaptable leadership and communication abilities — empowering you to set direction and motivate groups to achieve shared goals.

You'll get essential experience for coordinating projects involving creative programmers and artists. You'll oversee schedules, resources and workflow, emerging as a collaborative producer ready for industry challenges.

Building on prior project experience, you'll evaluate approaches to optimise outcomes for stakeholders. You'll cement your ability to strategically manage creative undertakings.

Analysing wider leadership models to hone your own style and strengths, you'll reflect on successes and areas to grow.

As part of your games industry training, you will work on a project that aligns with your career aspirations. This could involve creating 3D characters and worlds, designing original artwork or animating game levels. You will have the freedom to unleash your creativity and showcase your skills by incorporating real-world elements into your game designs.

In addition, you will learn to make informed design decisions through independent study and proactive feedback, rather than relying solely on classroom instruction. By analysing professional works, you will be able to evaluate your own creations and ensure they meet industry standards.

By the end of this module, you will have built a portfolio that demonstrates your readiness to embark on a career in game development, with projects that reflect your ambitions.

You will use creative applications in game development software and Adobe Creative Suite, learn to design user experiences (UX) and user interfaces (UI), discovering the principles of interaction design.

You'll explore the ethical considerations you need to craft Creative Technology projects, and create a product to apply and demonstrate your understanding in this hands on module that puts the user first.

Through lectures and discussions, you’ll explore academic perspectives, covering analytical, cultural, and design approaches. You’ll think critically about old and new ideas, using theories such as Huizinga’s ‘magic circle’ to examine game structures, content, and players. You’ll also focus on how to research games, using various methods to understand them in context.

By the end, you’ll be able to study games academically. This knowledge is great for your final-year projects, further study, or jobs in game production, journalism, user testing, and research and development.

You’ll end up with a firm grasp of games as a cultural form, preparing you for an industry or academic career in games.

You’ll learn to use game data like player input, physics, and game states to design reactive soundscapes that adapt as you play. Explore how to create non-linear music and sounds that can be generated on the fly. Pick up industry skills in audio middleware to build systems that can mix and switch sounds dynamically.

Make and produce your own music and sound effects that work well with interactive elements. Use coding to create your own audio plugins. Show off your technical and artistic skills with an interactive audio project in a game engine.

This intense training in a specialised area will give you expertise that game studios really want.

The module also gives you valuable experience in managing projects as you turn your sound ideas into reality. Challenge what’s possible in game audio and let your creativity soar.

You will work on an artefact, either in a group or independently.

These artefacts will allow students to demonstrate their understanding of the fundamental concepts of game systems.

Delve into the latest algorithms, rendering, and development tools that drive interactive media. Use real-life examples and exercises to examine the technologies shaping the future of games, animation, and more. Get tips from leading graphics researchers and develop the advanced skills you need to be innovative — whether in business or academic work.

Once you finish, you’ll be set to use the latest graphic techniques to make your own virtual worlds. This module will motivate you to keep pushing the envelope.

In this fascinating module, you’ll delve into this enthralling next-gen realm. Explore the latest techniques for digitally capturing human motion and seamlessly applying it to 3D character animation.

Join us in our futuristic mocap studio and master the entire process — from capturing data to animating it using industry software. Experts will guide you as you critically assess different technologies and develop skills to preserve the authenticity and nuance of performances.

By the end, you’ll have firsthand experience with this powerful storytelling tool, widely used to create captivating virtual characters in films, games, and beyond. Your creativity will soar as you explore the boundless possibilities of bringing digital worlds to life.

You’ll look at basic psychology ideas, like how people think, feel, and act, and how they relate to player experiences. Delve into perception, memory, rewards, and social interactions, and how to use them to make fun gameplay and powerful stories. By testing theories and principles, you'll get better at analysing how game elements impact psychology. Most of all, you’ll find out how human psychology affects player engagement and enjoyment. This knowledge will help you make design choices based on scientific theory.

In the end, this module gives you a psychological toolkit to create amazing, unforgettable player experiences.

By producing platform-specific demos, you’ll use suitable languages and asset optimisation techniques to critically assess hardware capabilities and audience priorities.

You’ll gain insight into commercial programming challenges, and this will enable strategic consideration of economic factors when proposing content across emerging channels.

During this module, you'll spend 6 months working on your own business venture, then 3 months gaining industry experience. This opportunity allows you to apply what you've learned in a practical setting while exploring different career options. You'll also have the chance to develop professional relationships and expand your network.

Assess your personal strengths and weaknesses to set goals for the future. Throughout the module, you'll demonstrate increasing independence while still valuing the support of others. Gain a broader understanding of the world through real-world experiences and insights. Additionally, you'll earn valuable credits for your CV and enhance your skill set.

By the end of this module, you'll graduate with the practical experience that employers are seeking.

This experience lets you learn firsthand how to set up and run a small business. You’ll absorb professional practices and business situations that matter to your entrepreneurial goals. Make important connections while working independently within set rules. Think deeply about your strengths, weaknesses, criteria for success, and future plans.

This opportunity is useful for your career. It lets you use what you’ve learnt in your degree in the real world and helps you understand your capabilities.

After finishing this placement and the related assessments, you’ll get more credits for your sandwich degree. This practical experience is a valuable step in developing an entrepreneurial way of thinking.

You’ll spend 24–48 weeks at a chosen company, learning from professionals and helping out with actual projects. Gain confidence, knowledge, and skills by taking on more responsibility with gradually less help. As you progress, you’ll make professional connections and think about how you’re doing. Take in what you learn about how industries and businesses work.

This placement is an ideal chance to grow in your career. By using what you’ve learnt in a workplace, you’ll understand more about your own strengths, what you need to work on, and your plans after you graduate.

After this placement and the related assessments, you’ll get extra credits for your sandwich degree. This practical experience is a valuable part of your education.

Complete relevant tasks demonstrating your specialised skills and independence.

Gain global perspective, reflect deeply on personal growth, and build valued transferable abilities for professional life after university. Return home with experiences that inspire your practice and understanding of art’s global connectivity.

Evaluating international contexts, you'll critically relate on-site activities to your disciplinary knowledge, gaining global insights. Working independently overseas, you'll complete relevant assignments, refining skills transferable to future creative studies and practice.

Upon returning, thoughtful reflection will reveal your personal growth as you process new worldviews and cross-cultural competencies. This invaluable opportunity provides a chance to broaden your creative knowledge while developing adaptability as a global citizen.

You’ll practice various modeling techniques, from box modelling to sculpting. Master the art of asset creation that meets specific project requirements.

By assessing basic principles and their impact on final results, you’ll develop advanced technical skills. With your creative thinking and understanding of procedures, you'll excel in 3D roles and unlock new possibilities.

You’ll work with different programming languages and APIs to show your understanding of technical terms. You’ll also master the control of game behaviors and data variables.

By recognising patterns in syntax, you’ll be able to write or forecast code outcomes accurately, establishing essential skills for creating functional game systems and mechanics.

Learn how gameplay mechanics, storytelling, and level design work together by studying successful games.

By looking at important academic sources, you’ll improve your academic writing skills and come up with original game concepts.

This module is ideal for developing your own design approach and generating marketable ideas for the entertainment industry.

By practising texture and movement rendering techniques using analogue mediums, you’ll develop your drawing prowess.

By the end of the module, you’ll be able to bridge principles of visual communication with emerging tools for crafting emotive digital worlds.

You’ll test code and asset creation techniques aligned to brief specifications and actively identify and resolve product issues from visual bugs to interactive mechanics.

The collaborative context requires coherent documentation and excellent team communication.

By the end of the module you’ll be equipped with project lifecycle experience - from aligned ideation to an optimised, playable game demo.

By analysing case studies across game creation sectors, you’ll gain insight into economic and cultural drivers of success and failure.

You’ll use specialist abilities from art to engineering and have the invaluable opportunity to enrich your technical literacy - creating pieces of work as a team that are aligned to industry priorities.

In this module, you'll generate and evaluate ideas that bring narrative concepts to life.

In the design process, you'll express your vision through composition, observation, and interpretation. Experiment with software to advance your surfacing, lighting, and rendering techniques, then use your new technical and creative skills to craft an animated short through performance and visual storytelling.

With this module, you can transform a story from page to screen using 3D animation and visualisation abilities. By the end, you'll have valuable experience in creating captivating characters and animated worlds.

You'll investigate major game engines and collaboratively evaluate their potential.

Choosing an appropriate technology, you'll undertake a hands-on project to build a small-scale game interface.

Through this focused task, you'll gain practical experience working with industry-standard tools.

By the end, you'll have developed core technical knowledge to start interfacing games using professional APIs.

Apply design theories and professional methods to produce playable versions of games across various genres. By testing these games and thinking critically, you’ll spot what’s working and what’s not, then hone your games bit by bit.

You’ll thoroughly analyse how to make games fair and exciting, discover how game elements can lead to new gameplay, and learn how to polish the game rules and play. You’ll take a game idea all the way to a refined prototype that’s ready to be turned into a digital game.

This module will boost your abilities in coming up with ideas, making paper prototypes, testing games, and refining them — all crucial skills for a budding game designer.

Above all, you’ll see how making prototypes quickly and getting user feedback lead to better games.

It will help develop your practical knowledge and collaborative abilities to thrive in the film and games industries.

You’ll use drawing to capture animal forms, structure, texture, and proportions. Relating visual research to the design process, you’ll develop industry-standard workflows, put your skills into practice through industry-led briefs and create professional-quality concepts and assets.

You can immerse yourself in the production pace and pipelines of entertainment studios through collaboration in a simulated studio environment.

You’ll finish this module with real-world creative experience and a portfolio of your design talents.

Get ready to ideate, plan, and execute games — tailored to market needs — to thrive as a game designer in industry.

As part of the design process, you’ll analyse game genres to understand mechanics, systems, and documentation. From that, you’ll create professional design documents for an original game concept and enrich your concept by evaluating commercial contexts to consider target platforms and audiences. In the last stage, your ideas will come to life through a digital prototype, presenting your gameplay and innovation.

By completing this module, you’ll gain first-hand experience of taking a game from concept to playable build.

By evaluating concepts from algebra to trigonometry, you’ll grasp their integration and solve technical challenges to elevate product capabilities and optimise performance.

You’ll develop your problem solving skills through industry-inspired exercises, as this module provides crucial analytical foundations that are transferrable to programming roles - where mathematical fluency intersects with code to create dynamic interactive experiences.

In this module, you’ll work with others to explore game ideas from concept to execution. Learn how to do market research, business strategy, marketing planning, and pitching with lecturers’ guidance. Work on team projects and presentations to assess the usefulness of game concepts and plan for their commercial success.

By the end, you’ll have the entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration skills, and industry knowledge to set up your own studio or prosper in one.

You’ll evaluate communication strategies and lead discussions that align desired outcomes with audience needs.

By analysing management styles and work-life philosophies, you’ll devise balanced, ethical frameworks to enrich sustainable practices. With critical reflection, you’ll be equipped to champion inclusive spaces where all voices are valued - driving innovation through unity.

You’ll research, design, and develop a character and environment following an industry-standard brief. Create model sheets and mood boards to guide your 3D workflow and visualise your concepts as you take your asset from concept to finish. Finally, you will use professional real-time techniques to create a demo reel that shows your technical excellence.

This module will equip you with practical experience and key skills in creating triple-A game assets, VR/AR content, and other real-time 3D applications.

Through a study exchange overseas, you'll manage tasks and projects relevant to your course, working independently or collaboratively as part of a team.

The experience enables you to showcase your talents on a global stage while reflecting on your personal growth. With enhanced employability prospects, you return home with a new perspective to inform your practice.

You'll gain familiarity with common code patterns and mechanisms for implementing interactivity, guided by code analysis and experimentation.

Through programming challenges, you'll apply your skills to build small-scale yet engaging gameplay prototypes.

This module provides the core technical knowledge to start realising your visions as playable game experiences.

By evaluating different programming approaches, you'll develop the implementation skills to advance your game projects from concept to playable prototype.

Join a team of creative students and do a project together. Try new things and see how they can help you.

You’ll also grasp how to use your skills with others. Sometimes you’ll be a leader, sometimes a helper. Talk about your ideas and learn from them. You’ll make something to show what you learned and share it with others.

This module helps you gain new skills and understand other fields. You’ll be a smart and creative person, ready to solve real-world problems.

By evaluating concepts from algebra to trigonometry, you’ll grasp their integration and solve technical challenges to elevate product capabilities and optimise performance.

You’ll develop your problem solving skills through industry-inspired exercises, as this module provides crucial analytical foundations that are transferrable to programming roles - where mathematical fluency intersects with code to create dynamic interactive experiences.

You’ll choose learning tasks that add up to 60 hours, like internships, volunteering, research, or remote study that match your career plans. Workshops will help you make meaningful goals and think about what you’ve accomplished. Through this, you’ll grow the knowledge, skills, and qualities you need to thrive in the workplace.

By looking at your growth through active participation and reading, you’ll become a perceptive, eager job-seeker who stands out.

You'll learn standard console hardware, software, and workflows. Create optimized software under console restrictions and use profiling tools for smooth gameplay. Develop pro-grade games with console dev kits, APIs, and documentation. This module upgrades console development skills for success in the games industry.

Demonstrating project management and problem-solving skills, through critical analysis and experimentation, you'll produce a body of work that advances knowledge in your discipline.

Communicating scholarly outcomes with impact, you'll demonstrate your knowledge and abilities, drawing together your learning into a compelling self-directed showcase.

This is the culmination of your degree journey - proving your readiness for professional and academic challenges ahead.

As part of your games industry training, you will work on a project that aligns with your career aspirations. This could involve creating 3D characters and worlds, designing original artwork or animating game levels. You will have the freedom to unleash your creativity and showcase your skills by incorporating real-world elements into your game designs.

In addition, you will learn to make informed design decisions through independent study and proactive feedback, rather than relying solely on classroom instruction. By analysing professional works, you will be able to evaluate your own creations and ensure they meet industry standards.

By the end of this module, you will have built a portfolio that demonstrates your readiness to embark on a career in game development, with projects that reflect your ambitions.

You will use creative applications in game development software and Adobe Creative Suite, learn to design user experiences (UX) and user interfaces (UI), discovering the principles of interaction design.

You'll explore the ethical considerations you need to craft Creative Technology projects, and create a product to apply and demonstrate your understanding in this hands on module that puts the user first.

Through lectures and discussions, you’ll explore academic perspectives, covering analytical, cultural, and design approaches. You’ll think critically about old and new ideas, using theories such as Huizinga’s ‘magic circle’ to examine game structures, content, and players. You’ll also focus on how to research games, using various methods to understand them in context.

By the end, you’ll be able to study games academically. This knowledge is great for your final-year projects, further study, or jobs in game production, journalism, user testing, and research and development.

You’ll end up with a firm grasp of games as a cultural form, preparing you for an industry or academic career in games.

You’ll learn to use game data like player input, physics, and game states to design reactive soundscapes that adapt as you play. Explore how to create non-linear music and sounds that can be generated on the fly. Pick up industry skills in audio middleware to build systems that can mix and switch sounds dynamically.

Make and produce your own music and sound effects that work well with interactive elements. Use coding to create your own audio plugins. Show off your technical and artistic skills with an interactive audio project in a game engine.

This intense training in a specialised area will give you expertise that game studios really want.

The module also gives you valuable experience in managing projects as you turn your sound ideas into reality. Challenge what’s possible in game audio and let your creativity soar.

You will dive into essential AI concepts, from academia to industry, and practice making AI alone or in a group. You will get to use methods like pathfinding, decision trees, and machine learning to create more engaging games. Additionally, you will explore various strategies for AI challenges in games and learn how to create realistic characters through advanced knowledge and reasoning.

By completing this module, you'll gain genuine experience in enhancing AI for more engaging games. Your skills will be in high demand for jobs in AI and game creation.

Putting methodologies into practice, this module develops adaptable leadership and communication abilities — empowering you to set direction and motivate groups to achieve shared goals.

You'll get essential experience for coordinating projects involving creative programmers and artists. You'll oversee schedules, resources and workflow, emerging as a collaborative producer ready for industry challenges.

Building on prior project experience, you'll evaluate approaches to optimise outcomes for stakeholders. You'll cement your ability to strategically manage creative undertakings.

Analysing wider leadership models to hone your own style and strengths, you'll reflect on successes and areas to grow.

Delve into the latest algorithms, rendering, and development tools that drive interactive media. Use real-life examples and exercises to examine the technologies shaping the future of games, animation, and more. Get tips from leading graphics researchers and develop the advanced skills you need to be innovative — whether in business or academic work.

Once you finish, you’ll be set to use the latest graphic techniques to make your own virtual worlds. This module will motivate you to keep pushing the envelope.

In this fascinating module, you’ll delve into this enthralling next-gen realm. Explore the latest techniques for digitally capturing human motion and seamlessly applying it to 3D character animation.

Join us in our futuristic mocap studio and master the entire process — from capturing data to animating it using industry software. Experts will guide you as you critically assess different technologies and develop skills to preserve the authenticity and nuance of performances.

By the end, you’ll have firsthand experience with this powerful storytelling tool, widely used to create captivating virtual characters in films, games, and beyond. Your creativity will soar as you explore the boundless possibilities of bringing digital worlds to life.

You’ll look at basic psychology ideas, like how people think, feel, and act, and how they relate to player experiences. Delve into perception, memory, rewards, and social interactions, and how to use them to make fun gameplay and powerful stories. By testing theories and principles, you'll get better at analysing how game elements impact psychology. Most of all, you’ll find out how human psychology affects player engagement and enjoyment. This knowledge will help you make design choices based on scientific theory.

In the end, this module gives you a psychological toolkit to create amazing, unforgettable player experiences.

By producing platform-specific demos, you’ll use suitable languages and asset optimisation techniques to critically assess hardware capabilities and audience priorities.

You’ll gain insight into commercial programming challenges, and this will enable strategic consideration of economic factors when proposing content across emerging channels.