Games Development

Games development production is the discipline concerned with managing the complex, multi-disciplinary process of making a video game, ensuring that the creative work of programmers, artists, designers and other team members is coordinated effectively toward a finished, playable product. Creating a game, as Huddersfield's own description notes, requires multiple skillsets from programmers, artists and other team members, and production designers are the professionals who bridge those gaps, creating technologically innovative experiences by managing people, schedules, workflows and the technical infrastructure that makes collaborative game development work.

At the University of Huddersfield, this three-year programme includes a foundation year, giving you additional preparation before the main degree, and a sandwich year and work placement opportunities, providing structured routes to develop professional experience in game development studios or related environments. You will study project management for game development, the game development pipeline, agile and other development methodologies, quality assurance, scheduling and resource planning, alongside technical understanding of the tools and processes used across programming, art and design in game production. The programme develops your ability to understand what every role in a studio does and to manage the coordination between them, which is the specific skill that producers bring to development teams.

Game production is a role that requires both technical literacy and people skills, the ability to understand what a programmer or artist needs to do and to create the conditions in which they can do it effectively. It is one of the most important and sometimes underrecognised roles in game development.

Graduates go on to work as junior producers, associate producers, project coordinators, QA leads and production managers in games studios of all sizes, from independent developers to major publishers. The management and coordination skills the degree develops also transfer to production roles in adjacent creative industries. Further study in game development or production management is an option for those seeking additional specialist expertise.