Indie Game Development MA (Online)

Key points

Course overview

Learn to produce vibrant and engaging experiences for gamers on this dynamic online MA course. You’ll analyse the principles of the creative process, from early ideation and prototyping through to full production, release, and post-release content. Supported by an experienced cross-disciplinary team of industry practitioners, including tutors working in professional game development roles, you’ll learn to integrate design tools, programming languages, game engines, specialist middleware, and frameworks into your game development practice.

Why study this course at Falmouth?

  • Apply the principles of design and creativity to generate novel experiences and own the Intellectual Property (IP) of any games you produce
  • Develop digital and non-digital prototypes and playable games, exploring the use of games across a range of application domains, including gamification and serious games
  • Use methods from business and analytics to better understand how people engage with indie games and games companies
  • Collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and expand your professional networks at optional in-person events

Careers

Falmouth’s game development graduates have worked as:

  • Game developers at companies such as MediaTonic, Firesprite, Creative Assembly, Project Gamechanger and Rare
  • Creative AI specialists at companies including Ultrahaptics, Solutionpath and Bewsign
  • Researchers and developers at companies such as Facebook
  • Designers, developers, programmers and analysts at companies such as Facebook
  • Doctoral researchers in artificial intelligence and/or data science, sponsored by the likes of Google

 

Graduates have a track record of producing successful indie games. Published titles include: Get Packed by Moonshine Studio, Soria by Polargryph, SAI by Studio Mutiny, RoBoats by Animal Puree, Kick Your Astronaut by SquirrelSoft and Karate Krab by Liquid Sapling. Visit Falmouth’s Games page to find a selection of real games that Falmouth students have collaborated on.

Entry requirements

An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification is desirable. However, candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply.

For more information regarding equivalent international qualifications and Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) please use the links on this page to contact the university.

English Language Requirements

If your first language is not English, you’ll need to take an English Language test. Falmouth accept:

IELTS – minimum overall score of IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.0 in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening

TOEFL iBT (online test) – minimum of 88 overall and at least 21 in all 4 components

LanguageCert (online test) – a High Pass from the ESOL B2 Communicator test in reading, writing, speaking and listening (2 parts)

The university also accept a range of other recognised English language qualifications.

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