Get Inspired Study BA Games Art

If you have a love for games and want to focus your career on a rapidly growing industry, then the University of Bolton has the perfect course for you, a BA Games Art degree. Study in a positive and supportive environment, where our award-winning Student Services and dedicated Employability Team will help you through your degree and into a career you’ll love.

The gaming industry today is worth hundreds of billions of pounds and supports fully professional live competitions where the winners can walk away as millionaires. Game developers are producing games of such stunning visual beauty, creative challenges and immersive addictiveness that people can spend more time in the virtual world than the real one. Not only are people playing the games for their exciting play-throughs but also the Games Art style and graphics, and that’s where you come in.

Basically, games have become everything from a sport to an art form in their own right, competing with every other form of entertainment media in the mainstream. And much like the gamers who play them, games are competing to win.

Let’s look at some of the more extraordinary examples from recent years. Games can be wildly different, ranging from the violently action packed to ones more focussed on mental challenges or even simple emotional reactions.