Games Design (Top Up) - BA (Hons)

Hugh Baird College

The BA (Hons) Top up in Games Design aims to further enhance skills and career opportunities in the games industry.This course has been designed to build on existing design related experience and help further develop and support students to fulfil their ambitions and function professionally in the design arena. The entire focus for this course will be on developing a proposal for a game, culminating in your Honours Project.On the top up course, you will enhance your passion for high level ideas generation in your chosen pathway and will develop the links between technology and the user. The course also helps you undertake the professional networking possibilities communicating with leading industries in your field to set the fundamental foundations needed to ‘go it alone’ or as part of a team when you graduate.You may have the opportunity to work on live projects from the games industry, working to real deadlines and expressing your own creative ideas and skills through your project work all using the latest games software.Core aspects of your work will be visualisation and digital modelling and you will develop a rich portfolio that will showcase your skills.

FACULTY OF DESIGN INDUSTRIES