BA (Hons) Game and Level Design Bachelor's degree at Middlesex University

Gain an overview of common industrial games design processes, understand theory around audience research and persona-based design, become familiar with key concepts relating to developing game mechanics, effective game play, and level design, identify and describe basic game play elements, and document and present a paper-based prototype that links to the design and analysis.

Apply theory and game history to contextualise Games Design, develop lines of inquiry and argument through engaging in game design and player experience theory, prototype a game idea using paper and other materials, use appropriate social research methods to playtest prototypes, and reflect on game play experiences to inform understanding around user experience.

Cultivate teamwork skills by engaging in collaborative efforts to design and develop a basic game prototype, enhance game design, development and management skills through practical projects, develop practical understanding of project management within team environments, and encourage evaluation and response to the requirements of established brief.

Provide hands-on experience in producing a variety of digital prototypes with scripting, offer practical experience of technical games design, experience with asset workflows associated with constructing games, and cultivate ability to reflect on game development and encourage critical analysis.

Cultivate deeper understanding of how to make a persuasive prototype, foster technical understanding of developing and implementing games across multiple platforms, provide practical experience in applying user experience design to develop requirements and constraints of cross platform development, and develop and enhance technical skills including software development skills for cross platform delivery and source control tools.

Develop critical skills by examining a range of topics associated with games culture, teach how to assess the construction of games produced for non-entertainment contexts, and enable you to devise gameplay and mechanics for non-entertainment contexts.

Introduce principles of environmental storytelling and architectural level layout and design, narrative structures to critically frame the design of game worlds and individual levels, and making game prototypes using both environmental and other storytelling techniques.

Build upon existing game design, development and management skills, engage with a professional brief from industry, create appropriate professional documentation in response to industry brief, evaluate and respond to the requirements of an intellectual property and audience, and work as part of a team to design and develop an advanced game prototype.

Provide understanding of storytelling in new mediums related to games including XR, articulate the challenges of creating coherent virtual architectural spaces to suit mechanics and gameplay, develop coherent spatial and environmental worldbuilding using environment, text, voiceover and sound, and understanding of emergent and non-linear narrative and challenges in spatialized games particularly XR.

Identify and deliver a piece of research from sustained and creative engagement with both a range of research methods and an area of game production, understand the processes needed to run a professional project and demonstrate industry ready skills, critically evaluate project work within the context of theory, history and existing practice, communicate ideas challenges and solutions, and apply academic reading and analysis to areas of Games Design research.

Develop an awareness of professional games development workplace environments and the current recruitment process, manage professional development portfolio to help with career planning, demonstrate a body of work in games design and development, and work independently to make decisions in dynamic professional contexts.

Propose and produce a project that represents the culmination of the skills and knowledge developed, create and project manage the making of a game or substantial game component from initial idea to persuasive prototype, problem-solve challenges related to game development using agile methodologies and rapid prototyping, and approach the creation of a game by evaluating appropriate design methodologies and technologies.