This specially designed degree offers students the opportunity to study Game Design together with Professional Writing. In common with all our Creative Studies and Media courses, this degree is structured around a balance between theory and practice.The BA in Professional Writing with Game Design will equip students with a solid grounding in the critical and practical skills they will need to pursue a writing career. Students will be encouraged to explore professional writing with special emphasis on innovation and inquiry. Students on this pathway will focus especially on writing for computer games and will learn the narrative, genre and construction techniques, traditions, and theory that inform interactive fictions and game writing. Students will develop skills in working across disciplines to design and produce innovative and creative game stories.For the Game Design element of the degree, practical work - with game engines or physical game materials - is integrated with opportunities to engage critically with theories of gaming culture, mechanics, narratives and aesthetics. Together these provide students with the insight needed to produce games that are both immersive and engaging. During the course, you will have the opportunity to create games in many formats, including: 2D platforms games, 3D games, board game and collectable card games. ‘Play’ will be used in teaching and development aspects of the course.