Overview
The MA Games Design programme at University of the Arts London (UAL) critically examines the concept of play in relation to the practice of games design. You will produce playable prototype gaming experiences and use games design as a means to test critical ideas from broader culture.
What can you expect?
The course is particularly interested in how games design principles are being used more generally and how these ideas impact upon our increasingly digital culture.
MA Games Design will enable you to understand and articulate the unique value of game experience to an increasingly interested design industry and allow you to understand the value of your game experience prototypes.
Building on LCC's resources, in digital, time-based and interactive media, alongside printmaking, graphic design and visual communication, the course encourages experimental and reflective practice that echoes the cross media nature of the design, communication and media industries.
The course also supports progression to research at MPhil/PhD level as well as to advanced self-directed experimental practice.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Design and Prototyping
- Understanding Gaming Experience
- Critical Play and Experimental Development
- Collaborative Unit
- Analysing the Gaming Experience
- Final Major Project and Thesis
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 15 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
Credits
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Disciplines
Design Video Games & Animation View 113 other Masters in Video Games & Animation in United KingdomAcademic requirements
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Honours degree in either games design, animation, illustration, visual communication or graphic design or closely related subject
- Possession of equivalent qualifications
- Prior experiential learning, the outcome of which can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required
- Or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning which, taken together, can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required
- If your first language is not English, you can check you have achieved the correct IELTS level in English
- CV
- Personal statement
- Portfolio
- Study proposal/project proposal
Tuition Fee
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International
25970 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 25970 GBP per year during 15 months. -
National
12700 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 12700 GBP per year during 15 months.
Living costs for London
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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