MA Composing for Video Games
$12950
Part Time - 24 Months (15 hours/week)
Part Time - 36 Months (8 hours/week)
This course prepares students to go into the industry as video game composers, assistant composers or as a member of an audio team.
On this course, you will learn:
- To compose music for a wide variety of different game genres, from mobile puzzle games through to action and racing games.
- Different ways of creating an interactive strategy to allow the score to respond seamlessly to the gameplay.
- Collaborative and remote working skills, which are vital in such a connected global industry.
- To use FMOD to implement your music interactively in fully functional Unity games and game levels, many specially designed or licenced for the course, including commercial releases.
- Business skills to help you produce a winning portfolio that will help you into a new career.
- Different ways of creating an interactive video game experience, allowing the score to respond seamlessly to gameplay.
That’s how most of our future students start: an informal conversation about where you are and where you want to be. No pressure, just getting to know you and how we might be able to help.
Get in touch with Tim Johnson the course manager (and film composer).
Teaching Staff
Our tutors are all current working professionals, many involved at the highest level in the business.
The tutors who will be giving you individual feedback, either in writing or at the student workshops, have composing and orchestration credits including:
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Need for Speed
- SimCity
- Bioshock 2
- Mass Effect 3
- Batman: Arkham Origins and hundreds more.
They’ve worked for every major film and game studio and networks and production companies including Blizzard, Nintendo, Capcom, Frontier, Dambusters Studios, 2K Games and many others.
Student Stories
Our recent students have gone on to work at Mojang, Creative Assembly, Frontier, Dam Busters and many more. Our graduates have worked on the score for Spiderman PS4 and scored the latest Battlefield 1 Apocalypse trailer.
Full Time - 12 Months (30 hours/week)
Part Time - 24 Months (15 hours/week)
Part Time - 36 Months (8 hours/week)
Finance
Students will be required to pay a deposit on enrolling. For more information on this, visit the Student Finance page.
postgraduate@thinkspaceeducation.com
To find out more about the application process, visit the Applications page.
ThinkSpace serves an incredibly valuable function by connecting the practice of media music from the industry with the newest research on the topic coming from university academics.
I would recommend Professional Media Composition to any composer who simply wants to be better at their job, whatever their experience level.