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Creative Media Production & Technology – Games Design & Development

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Getting Ahead

Digital Games Design & Development UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma at South Downs Campus

This work will help you get to grips with some of the key concepts involved in this course and the media industry. Building these foundations now will put you in good stead when you begin your course in September.

a ps4 controller, headphones, laptop and iphone on a desk

Capture, in collage form (either digital or physical), your favourite video games and systems/consoles to play them on.

Piskel is a free online editor for animated sprites and pixel art. You can create animations in your browser, rework existing example sprites and create your own new sprites. Experiment with this to see if you can create five new characters for a fictional 2D game called ‘The Battle’.

Write 250 words to explain your characters and your design choices.

Resources

Meet your Lecturers

  • games lecturer tom belbin

    Tom Belbin

  • Calum Teeling

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Your Learning Space

I’m really happy and pleased with my grades. I really loved my time at the college, I have also made lots of friends, it’s a really nice place to be, I don’t want to leave.

Lauren Piper, A Level student

My courses were all especially interesting, I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. All of my lecturers were extremely knowledgeable and I have learnt a lot from them.

Lottie Warren, A Level student

I overcame a couple of barriers by working really hard to get the top grades. My experience was really good, with the course and the lecturers, the residentials and activities, together it was all really good. I had really great teaching support, I could always go to the lecturers and speak to them if I needed to.

David Stenning, Public Services student