Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games
The Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games has links with companies informing the contents of its courses, which range from games programming at the science and technology end to narrative-based animation at the arts end.
All the courses are Skillset accredited with the Institute being awarded Skillset Media Academy status. The Institute’s teaching spaces are like the studio environments used by modern creative companies – games programmers work alongside animators and visual artists, and sound technologists create content for computer games and other interactive media products.
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