BA (Hons) Game Design And Development

This award-winning innovative course will allow you to learn all the key aspects of game design and development. In the first semester of your first year, you will be introduced to the core skills of team game development as well as the unity game engine.

In the second semester of your first year, you will then focus fully on game design and development gaining specialist skills but still with opportunities to collaborate with students on other courses in the creative technologies in subsequent years of study. You will be taught by lecturers with more than 20 years’ of experience in the games industry offering you the sought-after practical experience of working creatively and collaboratively at the forefront of tech advances.

Real-world application of your skills is essential, and you will develop valuable employability skills that are desired by the industry. On completion of the course, you will have the opportunity to showcase your creative production in the creative technologies show which evidences to employers that you are ready for a career in an ever-changing digital and technological landscape.

Why study Games Design and Development at LSBU?

• 100 percent of students feel that teaching staff made the subject engaging. (National Student Survey 2024). This course  has been nominated in the Higher Education category for the TIGA Games Industry Awards, 2024.Ranked 4th in the UK for graduate prospects in Art and Design (The Complete University Guide by Subject, 2025).We are a centre of excellence for virtual and augmented reality games research in London, offering development experience in pervasive gaming.Get access to high-spec game systems and tools at our bespoke game development labs.Learn the skills you need to create, release and promote your own games, using design, code, art, animation/modelling, audio, level design, character creation and production.
• Benefit from our connections with Eurogamer, BAFTA, Sony, Eidos, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Nintendo, and video game magazine publishing houses including Future and Imagine.Choose to focus on specialist skills in design and development.

112 UCAS points
Or equivalent level 3 qualifications.

• If you do not meet the entry criteria above we also review any previous skills, knowledge or experience you have gained outside of your education and are happy to talk through any extenuating circumstances you feel relevant.

Missing English and Maths qualifications?

• If you do not have the required English and Maths qualifications needed to satisfy the entry requirements for this programme, we have courses available at our partner College that you can take to upskill in these areas.

Advanced entry

• If you have already completed some studies at another university, we may be able to consider you for advanced entry. Please see our advanced entry page for more information.

Course Content

In this course, you’ll learn the essential skills required to work in the games industry, as well as develop your creativity under the guidance of passionate games industry experts.

• You’ll learn the technical side of making games and about the gaming industry too – acquiring the creative and organisational skills specific to game production and leadership roles. You can expect to create games for a wide range of gaming platforms: computer games, arcade games, gaming consoles, mobile games and online multiplayer gaming. We’ll cover game and level design, life drawing and anatomy, character design, animation, sound design, scriptwriting, 3d modelling, and motion capture – all culminating in a major independent project.

Careers
Employability Service

• At LSBU, we want to set you up for a successful career. During your studies – and for two years after you graduate – you’ll have access to our Employability Service, which includes:
• An online board where you can see a wide range of placements: part-time, full-time or voluntary. You can also drop in to see our Job Shop advisers, who are always available to help you take the next step in your search.
• Our Careers Gym offering group workshops on CVs, interview techniques and finding work experience, as well as regular presentations from employers across a range of sectors.

Our Student Enterprise team can also help you start your own business and develop valuable entrepreneurial skills.

• The UK was estimated to be the 5th largest video game market in 2017, where the country’s 32.4 million gamers will spend $4.2 billion this year (Newzoo). There is also expanding cross-linking between the games and film industry globally. Read more about the UK games industry.
• This course will set you up for a design-related career in the games industry, or game- related jobs in connected industries such as journalism and PR. Recent graduates have become designers, character and environmental artists, and scriptwriters.
• Want to hear more about our graduates? Games alumnus Ari Shirazi shares his story of building a career in the games industry; from being a games-obsessed toddler to a Technical Designer at Sony – and on working on some of the world’s most popular video games.

Experience

• During the course we encourage you to engage with outside professional bodies as a means of increasing your profile and gaining experience. Our students have worked with TT Fusion, Crytek, THQ, Electronic Arts, Buena Vista (Disney's game development arm), Square Enix, Sega and PlayGen.
• One group of our first-year students was commissioned by the BBC to produce freelance games content. And a group of our second-year students was successfully placed in the highly prestigious Dare to be Digital festival, sponsored by the BBC, Channel Four, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, the Scottish Executive and Rockstar.
• As one of the most established games courses in the UK, over the past ten years we’ve developed an exceptional international network of contacts. Our lecturers coordinate the London Chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and while on the course students’ work on international game development projects with organisations such as UNICEF.