Course summary
  • Develop advanced programming skills, using C++ as the core language throughout the course.
  • Use industry-standard APIs such as Microsoft's DirectX, Unity, Unreal, Corona, OpenGL, Android SDK and iOS.
  • Learn about 3D graphics, computer architecture, game engines and game industry business models.
  • Study on a course with industry accreditation from Creative Skillset, TIGA and the British Computer Society.

Study the skills and techniques demanded by the games industry, such as programming, software engineering and optimisation, mathematics and the use of games hardware on desktop, consoles and mobile platforms. Master project management techniques and tools used within the games industry and design your own games in the world's largest PlayStation¨ teaching lab.Ê

Future careers

This Computer Science for Games (Honours) programme from Sheffield Hallam University prepares you for a career in:

  • game software development
  • graphical software design and visualisation
  • applications programming
  • software engineering

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

  • Sumo Digital
  • 3Squared
  • SN Systems
  • Servelec Group
  • Hewlett-Packard Ltd
  • IBM Ltd
  • Citrix
  • ORACLE