Applicants will need to demonstrate sufficient prior knowledge and detail experience of and/or potential in games design, and/or coding and design practice to be able to successfully complete the programme of study. Applicants also need to demonstrate a good knowledge of visual culture and be able to engage in critical discussion.
Applicants are expected to have an honours degree in a subject such as games design, animation, illustration, visual communication or graphic design or a closely related area, and present a portfolio of image-led work and project proposal. The course aims to appeal to art and design graduates who are interested in expanding their experience by investigating emerging areas of games design practice. However, we will consider applicants who have graduated from other related disciplines.
Entry onto the course requires that you have some experience of coding. This maybe HTML/CSS/JavaScript or others such as actionscript, Java, C++ etc. Your level of experience can be quite low, as we will upskill applicants where needed, but you need to be comfortable with learning code and understand key concepts such as 'for loops' and 'conditional if' statements. IELTS 6.5 (or equivalent), with no less than 5.5 in each of the four skills.
