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ThinkSpace Education: Video Game Music & Audio

Institution ThinkSpace Education
Department Game Music and Audio
Web https://thinkspaceeducation.com
Email postgraduate@thinkspace.ac.uk
Telephone +44 (0)1243 256049
Study type Taught

Summary

The games industry is one of the fastest expanding areas of media and with it comes unique opportunities for composers and sound designers. MFA Video Game Music and Audio will prepare you to enter the industry as both a video games composer and sound designer, complete with all the skills you need to create and implement fully interactive music and sound design using industry standard game engines and middleware.

During this comprehensive Master of Fine Arts degree course, you will cover the skills taught in both our MA Composing for Video Games and MA Sound Design for Video Games degree courses.

This course covers every aspect of the video game music and audio world, exploring both linear and interactive music as well as sound design. It will prepare you for a career anywhere in the game audio industry, giving you the creative and technical skills from both a composer’s and sound designer’s perspective.

On this course, you will learn:

  • The essential technical and creative skills required to compose music and create sound effects for video games in a fully interactive setting.

  • How to compose for a wide variety of game genres, from mobile puzzle games through to action and racing games.

  • To create and implement weapon, impact, and vehicle sounds.

  • How to use inexpensive field recording equipment to produce atmospheres, spot-effects and Foley, as well as using sounds from commercial sound libraries.

  • To use Wwise to implement your music and audio interactively in functional Unity games, many specially designed or licensed for the course - including commercial releases.

  • Collaborative, business, and remote working skills which are vital in such a connected global industry.

Our teaching staff and mentors are all current working professionals, many involved at the highest level in the business. Here are a few of the many who will be giving you individual feedback, either in writing, during weekly one to one mentoring sessions, or at the student workshops. This doesn’t include visiting lecturers - these are the people doing the teaching.

Call of Duty Infinite Warfare League of Legends Batman Arkham Knight Forza Horizon 2 Resident Evil Warhammer: Total War Lego 2KDrive Metal Gear Rising Cyberpunk 2077 Wolfstein Youngblood Team Sonic Racing Need For Speed Shift Walking Dead Assault

They’ve worked for almost every major game studio, including: Electronic Arts, Blizzard, Bandai, Nintendo, Capcom, Frontier, Dambusters Studios, and many others.

Master of Fine Arts - MFA (PG)

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