Games Design and Development (Virtual Reality), BSc Hons

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Duration

    3 Years

Build your technical and creative skills and prepare for a career in video game design, with a focus on virtual reality gaming.


This games design and development degree combines all the aspects of theory, practice and technology essential to your future career. You'll learn games programming and discover the creative aspects of the games industry through practical projects. Our pathway in virtual reality gives you a chance to focus on an exciting and fast-growing sector within gaming.

This degree is ideal preparation for careers in the thriving video games industry. Graduates have been employed in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality focused companies, such as the award-winning Rewind, Sky VR, and architects Arup, as well as smaller independent studios.

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About this course

Former Games and Digital Media students have secured placement years at Disney, Space Ape Games, Nickelodeon, and Warner Brothers.

Career destinations include the independent and mobile games sectors as programmers, modellers and designers, the Augmented, Virtual and Mixed reality developers, UI and UX designers for digital media and games, games content creators and deliverers, back-end developers and content managers.

Recent positions secured by Games Design and Digital Media graduates include Motion Capture Technician at The Imaginarium Studios, Serious Games Developer at Arup, Software Engineer at Bossa Studios, and Creative Product Specialist at Celtra.

112 UCAS points from A-Levels (we also accept UCAS points from alternative Level 3 qualifications including: BTEC Nationals, the International Baccalaureate and Scottish and Irish Highers)
AND YOU WILL ALSO REQUIRE:

GCSE English (Language or Literature) AND GCSE Maths at grade 4/C or above. We also consider equivalent qualifications in English and Maths at Level 2, in place of GCSEs.

What you should know about this course
For eight consecutive years we've been shortlisted by TIGA for Best Educational Institute
This course will help you gain the valuable skills employers are looking for with our dedicated games and digital media lab.
Develop distinctive and creative concepts for a variety of VR platforms and technologies.
This specialist pathway will allow you to explore the theory, technology, and practice of games development, as well as its application to the design and development of virtual reality.
The University of Greenwich has a long-standing relationship with the British Computer Society (BCS), which accredits our computing degree programmes. As this programme was extensively updated in 2019, it has a current designation of Initial Full Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP) accreditation for the 2019 intake. The accreditation status is expected to be confirmed in autumn 2022 after the first cohort of students graduate. Students will be kept updated on the status of this. In the very unlikely event that this does not progress as expected the university will support students with individual BCS membership applications at the point of graduation.

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Subjects

  • Production
  • Media
  • Oriented Programming
  • Object oriented Programming
  • Programming
  • Industry
  • Technology
  • Systems
  • Project
  • 3D
  • 3D Modelling
  • Virtual Reality
  • 3d training
  • Design
  • Installation
  • Object-oriented training
  • Object oriented training
  • Options

Course programme

Year 1

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.

  • Games and Interactive Systems (30 credits)
  • Object Oriented Programming for Games and Digital Media (15 credits)
  • 3D Modelling (15 credits)
  • Digital Media Design (15 credits)
  • Programming for Games and Digital Media (15 credits)
  • Digital Media Technology (15 credits)
  • Mathematics for Computer Science (15 credits)
Year 2

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.

  • Games Design and Development (30 credits)
  • Installation Development Project (15 credits)
  • Principles of Virtual Reality (30 credits)
  • Group Project (30 credits)
  • Research Methods for Games and Digital Media (15 credits)
Year 3

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.

  • Advanced Games Design and Development (30 credits)
  • Final Year Projects (60 credits)
  • Advanced Virtual Reality (30 credits)

Additional information

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Games Design and Development (Virtual Reality), BSc Hons

£ 9,250 VAT inc.