Have you ever looked at your favourite games and thought how they were crafted? Games programmers are the masterminds behind the gameplay elements, graphics, and audio that make games come alive. It’s a role that demands an exceptional level of technical skill and creativity.

Throughout your journey, you acquire the essential skills and knowledge to become a proficient games programmer, armed with a deep understanding of the games industry. This knowledge and experience will be your ticket to a rewarding career within the world of games. Beyond the classroom, you’ll participate in a range of extracurricular activities, including game jams, hackathons, and networking events with industry professionals.

By the time you complete this course, you’ll be equipped to embark on an rewarding career in the games industry, bringing your innovative ideas and technical expertise to the forefront of interactive entertainment.

The course is structured around the following themes:

• programming and agile software engineering practices
• gaming hardware and platforms (mobile devices and consoles)
• gameplay programming and user interfaces (multimodal interfaces) artificial intelligence
• networked multiplayer games (from social gaming to massively multiplayer games) graphics, animation, physics, and simulation programming.

Top reasons to study this course at Teesside:

• British Computer Society (BCS) academic membership: get free BCS membership to accelerate your career path with CV builder tools, e-learning courses, mentorships programmes, jobs boards and volunteering opportunities.
• Industry links: take part in Animex, our annual international animation and games festival featuring experts from Rockstar, Pixar, Disney and Sony.
• Career-ready: our ExpoSeries of events allow you to showcase your skills to industry professionals who are seeking to recruit new and rising talent.
• Start-up business support: we support you to develop your own business in games through our innovative Power UP Indie Games Accelerator.
• Quality teaching: 90% of BSc (Hons) Games Programming students agreed that staff are good at explaining things (National Student Survey 2023, tees.ac.uk/source)