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University of Skövde Master in Games User Experience

University of Skövde

Master in Games User Experience

Norrmalm, Sweden

1 Years

English

Full time

15 Jan 2026

31 Aug 2026

SEK 135,000 / per semester *

On-Campus

* first instalment: SEK 67,500 | EU/EEA Citizens are not required to pay tuition fees

Key Summary

    About: The Master in Games User Experience focuses on understanding player behavior and designing engaging game experiences. The program delves into user research, usability testing, and interface design, equipping students with the skills to improve games based on user feedback.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can explore various career paths such as game designer, user experience researcher, or usability analyst in the gaming industry, helping to create more immersive and enjoyable gaming experiences.

Introduction

Sweden is a leading nation in the global game industry, and Skövde is the leading Swedish city in which to study game development. Here you will find four master's programs in games, eight bachelor's programs covering all disciplines of game development, extensive game research, a successful game incubator, and last but not least, a large number of game companies. All these activities are located in the middle of Skövde and united under the umbrella of Sweden Game Arena. As a master's student in games user experience, you will become part of this ecosystem and benefit from a competitive advantage in a career within the international game industry.

About The Program

The Games User Experience master's program is aimed at applicants with a bachelor's degree in any of the many areas involved in game development. You will gain not only a theoretical and practical understanding of the experiences and emotions games elicit in their players, but, more importantly, how to examine and evaluate them. Students who graduate from the program can move on to work with game design and game user experience studies in game companies, or apply to Ph.D. programs in most countries. However, it is also possible to stay in Skövde and pursue a career in games.

The focus of your studies

Developing games is about creating engaging experiences for players. The growing ubiquity of games in society and culture means that new and diverse user groups are playing games. This has led not only to new opportunities, but also many new challenges for game developers. One of these is to better understand how players interact with games and in what ways these interactions can be studied, understood, and improved. Working with games user experience will involve working with interaction design, research methodology, human-computer interaction, and game development in order to fully be able to unpack peoples' experiences of playing games.

To put it briefly: the Games User Experience program provides you with knowledge about how to analyze and understand what happens when people play games. What feelings are invoked? How can we better understand the players´ reactions? How can we make games more accessible and engaging for new audiences? In this rapidly growing field of expertise, researchers and developers are continuously trying to figure out how best to answer the big question: "why is this fun?"

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