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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

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Lee Backhouse, BTEC student

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