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

Gain an overview of common industrial games design processes. Understand the theory around audience research and persona-based design as it relates to initial design and testing. Become familiar with the key concepts relating to developing game mechanics, effective game play, and level design. Identify, describe, and develop basic game play elements. Document and present a paper-based prototype that links to the design and analysis.

Apply theory and game history to contextualise Games Design in relation to a variety of creative practices. 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. 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 your game design, development and management skills through practical projects. Develop your practical understanding of project management within team environments. Encourage you to evaluate and respond to the requirements of established brief, fostering critical thinking, problem-solving.

Provide you with hands-on experience in producing a variety of digital prototypes with scripting. Offer practical experience of technical games design. Enable you to experience with asset workflows associated with constructing games. Cultivate your ability to reflect on the game development, encouraging critical analysis and self-assessment to enhance learning outcomes and personal growth.

Cultivate a deeper understanding of how to make a persuasive prototype. Foster a technical understanding of developing and implementing games across multiple platforms to further the creative and commercial possibilities of games design. Provide practical experience in applying user experience design to develop the requirements and constraints of cross platform development. Develop and enhance existing technical skills including software development skills for cross platform delivery and source

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

Principles of environmental storytelling and architectural level layout and design. Narrative structures to critically frame the design of game worlds and individual levels. 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. Work as part of a team to design and develop an advanced game prototype.

Understanding of storytelling in new mediums related to games, including XR. The ability to articulate the challenges of creating coherent virtual architectural spaces for to suit mechanics and gameplay. An appreciation and experience developing coherent spatial and environmental worldbuilding using environment, text, voiceover and sound. 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 to demonstrate industry ready skills. Critically evaluate project work within the context of theory, history and existing practice in the field to and effectively communicate outcomes. Communicate ideas, challenges and solutions in the field of study to demonstrate independent, respo

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

Propose and produce a project that represents the culmination of the skills and knowledge you have 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. Approach the creation of a game by evaluating appropriate design methodologies and technologies to support the idea. Collaborate with, manage, and engage other people w