BA (Hons) Computer games Design: Story Development(With Foundation Year)

Whether it’s the fun of Super Mario or the horror of Resident Evil that consumes you, this is your chance to convert your passion for playing games into knowledge about how to create and design them. You’ll get the most out of our course if you come with an interest in all kinds of games – board, card, and pen-and-paper – not just digital ones. You’ll be amazed at what you can learn from games like Munchkin or Dungeons and Dragons. We run two games courses at UEL, subtly different but both sharing the same focus on designing games and gameplay.

Foundation Year (If Required)

• Academic Development
• Creative Project
• Analogue Games
• Narrative and Creativity
• Group Film Project
• Professional Development: Mental Wealth

Year 1

• Introduction to Game Design
• Gameplay Development
• Game Studio 1 (Mental Wealth)
• Software Development
• Storytelling for Games
• Documentary: Games

Year 2

• Game Level Design
• Interactive Narrative Design for Games
• Applied Narrative & Gameplay Design
• Game studio 2 (Mental Wealth)
• Game Client Project
• Database Systems

Year 3

• Game Studio (Mental Wealth)
• Rapid Game Prototyping
• Agile Game Development
• Advanced Game Narrative Design
• Dissertation Project

Employability:

We believe our courses are ideal preparation for a career in the games industry – and we can point to a couple of BAFTAs to back it up. After graduating with a computer games degree here, Ashraf Mohammad started working with Rocksteady as a games tester. He has gone on to work on the Batman series of games and was a member of the team who won the ‘Best Gameplay’ and ‘Best Game’ BAFTAs for Batman: Arkam Asylum. He is just one in a long list of our graduates who have made a real impact in the industry. For instance, in the last five years, two have featured in Develop Magazine’s list of the industry’s top 30 most promising young talents.