BSc Computer Games
Colchester, United Kingdom
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English
PACE
Full time
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On-Campus
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Introduction
BSc Computer Games
This is a degree in world-making. You craft stories, characters and plot in order to build imaginary worlds that a player can journey through. Our work is driven by creativity and imagination as well as technical excellence; at Essex you master both game design and computer programming, giving you total control over the worlds you want to create.
Our course gives you the skills to design and specify complex, non-trivial games through focusing on the following areas:
- The mechanics of a game, including gameplay elements and the relationship with story
- The concepts and techniques of computer game programming
- Real and virtual worlds
- Artificial intelligence behaviours for non-player characters
- 2D and 3D graphic effects and game objects (e.g. weapon systems)
At the end of your course, you will be able to create the outline design specification for a computer game of your own design, and to implement a game using industry-standard techniques.
Our School is a community of scholars leading the way in technological research and development. Todayโs computer scientists are creative people who are focused and committed, yet restless and experimental. We are home to many of the worldโs top scientists, and our work is driven by creativity and imagination as well as technical excellence.
Both for entertainment and for more serious purposes such as virtual reality training, computer games, gamification and games intelligences are increasingly important in todayโs world.
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Curriculum
Year 1
- Team Project Challenge
- Mathematics for Computing
- Introduction to Programming
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Introduction to Databases
- Web Development
- Network Fundamentals
- Fundamentals of Digital Systems
Year 2
- Team Project Challenge
- Application Programming
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Game Design
- Computer Game Programming
- C++ Programming
Final Year
- Individual Capstone Project Challenge
- Virtual Worlds
- High-Level Games Development
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
We have many graduates in senior positions in the computer communications industry, as well recent graduates working in IT and computer companies.
Our school has a large pool of external contacts, ranging from companies providing robots for the media industry, through vehicle diagnostics, to the transforming of unstructured data to cloud-based multidimensional data cubes, who work with us and our students to provide advice, placements and eventually graduate opportunities. Read more about computer science and electronic engineering career destinations.
Our recent graduates have gone on to secure impressive roles, including as a Java/Actionscript Developer for Playtech and as an Associate Software Developer for Sky.
Program delivery
BSc Computer Games: 3 years
BSc Computer Games (Including Year Abroad): 4 years
BSc Computer Games (Including Placement Year): 4 years