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GAM-10011 - Module Specification
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

GAM-10011 - Crafting Games and Worldmaking
Coordinator: Miroslav Spasov Room: CKF06 Tel: +44 1782 7 33298
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Level: Level 4
Credits: 30
Study Hours: 300
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Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

none

Barred Combinations

none

Description for 2025/26

This module will introduce you to the craft of game making, using the latest tools and techniques. You'll learn how to design levels, 2D map making, grey-boxing, and other industry-standard techniques. These skills will enable you to create original and engaging levels for a variety of game situations. You’ll also explore interactive storytelling in games, multimedia projects, reality games, theme parks, and immersive enactments. Dive into the art of gameplay and discover what makes a game captivating!

Aims
To develop students' game making skills.
To introduce students to level design.
To help students obtain understanding of game crafting techniques and apply the appropriate tools.
To introduce students to game-crafting techniques.
To help students develop imagination, creativity and to prepare them for narrative design.
To engage students in story settings as a vehicle for narrative and storytelling, which will help the players feel involved in the game and to motivate them to make the next steps.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Describe key concepts, and both the creative and technical aspects of a game experience: 1,2,3
Identify appropriate elements that form and shape different types of game levels.: 3
Demonstrate proficiency in developing player actions: 1,2,3
Apply their knowledge and skills in worldmaking as an act of creating a canvass.: 3
Demonstrate skills in presenting the narratives and worldmaking: 2
Demonstrate knowledge of games narrative, covering history and some contemporary trends in fiction.: 3

Study hours

24 hours lectures and workshops
24 hours small group tutorials
Independent study:
72 hours of preparation for workshops and tutorials
40 hours of assigned reading individual software-based tasks
40 hours of group tasks
100 hours of preparation for the summative assessment

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Creative Brief weighted 30%
Creative brief
Students will be required to write a 1200-word narrative and storytelling brief for a virtual world. This brief should take into account player actions, offering guidance through elements such as commentary, cutscene narratives, and other interactive components to help players navigate their next steps

2: Presentation weighted 20%
Presentation
Students will make a 15-minute individual presentation on the virtual world they have developed for the creative brief – the narrative and how players will behave and interact in their surroundings.

3: Project weighted 50%
Collaborative Project
A collaborative project in which students will generate and develop ideas, characters, and settings and make and submit a fully developed single level of game prototype that will involve level design, 2D map making, greyboxing, and other standard techniques. They will work in small groups (about 4-5) but they will be assessed individually. Each of the students will be required to submit a written summary of about 1000 words about their contribution to the project.

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 04 December 2025