Why study Games Design & Development?

Games Design & Development will introduce you to the genres, trends and emerging technologies at the cutting edge of the computer games industry.

You will explore core concepts such as design, media assets and development. Working with the latest software programs, you’ll learn about digital planning & design, creation of media assets, and development & testing, which are important techniques for working in Games Development.

As well as improving your computational thinking skills, the course will also help you to develop employability skills and core skills through collaborative enterprise activities.

 

 

Career Pathways

See what career areas this subject could lead to:

• Applications developer
• Concept artist
• Game artist
• Game designer
• Games developer
• Multimedia programmer
• Multimedia specialist
• Software engineer
• VFX artist

 

For more information see the SQA Games Design & Development page.