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Game design

 Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes.From Mario Kart to Minecraft, FIFA to Final Fantasy, video games have played a huge role in many of our lives. Christmas mornings were spent unwrapping, loading up, and getting to know the next best game that year. Coming on leaps and bounds in the past decade, video games have gone from a niche hobby to a multi-billion pound industry of simulation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Far more than a pastime, video games have become a social way of life for people of all ages.

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  What can you do with a game design degree?

  A games design degree will be most useful when applying for these jobs after university:

  • computer games developer
  • computer games tester
  • software developer
  • animator

  But don’t underestimate its use in other sectors too:

  • computer service and repair technician
  • forensic computer analyst
  • IT project manager
  • systems analyst
  • web designer
  • data scientist
  
  
  

  What's it like to study game design?

  Game design is a very vocational course, meaning it’s more focussed on real-world skills and less on academic theory and learning. Everything you’re taught will be useful in your future job, so from the start you’ll be encouraged to think like a games designer or developer. You’ll be given the skills and freedom to develop your own ideas, and part of the curriculum will be to design and prototype your own games. You’ll have to pitch them and develop your skills in digital asset creation, wire-framing, and 3D modelling.

  Game design undergraduates can expect the following tasks during their studies:

  • writing reports and essays
  • attending lectures and seminars
  • hearing from industry speakers
  • creative workshops
  • technical labs
  • placements and industry experience
  • project and group work
  
  
  

Referencing

Game design (2022) Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_design (Accessed: November 2, 2022).

Game design (2022) UCAS. Available at: https://www.ucas.com/explore/subjects/game-design (Accessed: November 2, 2022).

Ghanchi, J. (2021) Ai in game development, ITChronicles. Available at: https://itchronicles.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-in-game-development/ (Accessed: November 2, 2022).