You will enhance your skills in researching and designing a game franchise from an analytical perspective. You will research game theory, ratings, and Genres before looking at a game franchise's history and predicting its future. This is key to developing your design mind when approaching game creation, making sure you have taken these elements into account.
Intent: Building on the analytical view, you will research games with
Implementation: Research tasks and pitching the future of a series
Impact: Fundamental skill building, which can be used in future projects when looking at deepening the design of your game
Industry: Game Design, Game Researcher, Game Reviewer
Soft skills: Problem solving, research
Maths and English: Write-ups and analysis of content
Date issued: 09/09/25
Final submission: 20/09/25
Resubmission: 11/10/25
Work will be assessed in the form of tasks completed on your site and followed by a final assessment. Only the work on your college site will be assessed so it is vital you upload all work, including any development and mistakes.
It is expected all work is reflected on.
Genres research (U4 1.1, 1.2)
Ratings research (U4 1.1, 1.2)
Game Theory (U4 1.1, 1.2)
Game History (U4 2.1)
Game Future (U4 2.2, 1.3)
Own views on subjects (U4 1.3)
Assessors:
Daniel Wiltshire
Richard Pitham-Cole
More information can be found on the UAL website here