Overview

During this Video Game Composition and Orchestration programme of ThinkSpace Education, you will cover the skills taught in both our Composing for Video Games and Orchestration for Films, Games, and Television degree courses.

Key facts:

Video Game Composition and Orchestration is an advanced degree that prepares you to write technically demanding, interactive music that you will learn to implement in the game using industry standard middleware such as FMOD and Wwise. You will learn to realise your scores as both professional grade sampled mock-ups and prepare them for live orchestra. You will learn to write for live players, prepare scores for a variety of applications and correctly manage Pro Tools sessions.

On this course, you will learn:

How to work in an adaptive and interactive genre, tackling challenges unique to video games.
To orchestrate awe-inspiring live and sampled orchestral game music.
To produce professional-quality scores using Sibelius or Finale and record-ready Pro Tools sessions.
What the market expects, what producers and directors are buying right now, and how to deliver market-focused music.
About each section of the orchestra, taught by some of the world’s top film music session players.
How to use FMOD to implement your music and sound design interactively in fully functional Unity games, many specially licenced for the course, including commercial releases.

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Game Audio Technology
Writing for Strings and Woodwind
Game Music and Audio
Advanced Game Music
Elective
Final Major Project or Dissertation

Basic Pro Tools
Sampling Technology
FMOD
Cinematic Sound Design
Work and Money
Audio Post Production
Advanced Sibelius

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months
Part-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-08 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Horsham, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Game Design Sound Engineering Music Composition View 4 other Masters in Sound Engineering in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Your portfolio (where applicable)
The Application Form
Your covering letter
Application Tasks
Supporting evidence and academic documents
Submitting your application

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

9050 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

9050 GBP / year

≈ 9050 GBP / year

Funding

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