Become a confident and daring indie game developer, producing vibrant and engaging experiences for gamers

Do you have the artistic vision and ambition to create original indie games? Integrate design tools, programming languages, game engines, as well as specialist middleware and frameworks into your game development practice. Analyse the principles of the creative process, from ideation and design through to delivery and dissemination. Explore business models used by indie games studios to see how you could start up your own. If you already have a business idea, get it off the ground with help from a mentor.

The course is part of Falmouth’s Games Academy, one of the largest dedicated game development studio spaces of any UK university. In 2020 it was featured in The Princeton Review as one of the top 50 games schools in the world. The Academy is full of people working in all aspects of the games industry, creating real games and digital products every day. We primarily use Unity as our game engine, but have expertise that spans a wide range of tools.

As an MA Indie Game Development student, you'll benefit from our 'doing it for real' approach. On Falmouth Flexible’s MA Indie Game Development, you’ll:

• Design and implement digital and non-digital games
• Apply the principles of design and creativity to generate fun and playful experiences
• Learn to use industry-standard platforms for making games and adapt to their technical constraints
• Apply primary and secondary research methods drawn from game studies and the broader design science literature
• Use methods from business and analytics to better understand how people engage with games and game companies
• Adopt both technical and arts perspectives as part of a design thinking process to deliver novel games
• Collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, an increasingly important skill in the games industry
• Practice game design across a range of application domains, including gamification and serious games
• Keep and control the Intellectual Property (IP) of any games you produce