Digital Creative

Skills for Games Design, Development, and Immersive Tech

More than one-fifth of businesses currently face a digital skills gap. With more than 70% of job listings requiring digital skills of one form or another, the digital skills gap is ever becoming a digital skills chasm.

Digital skills promise to offer a future skills currency, enabling higher performance, enhanced brand awareness, and greater collaboration benefits for all sectors. Digital skills can be divided into digital user skills, coding and programming, and data analytics and learning programmes are available to suit all levels and abilities.

Explore learning opportunities to develop digital skills by selecting one of the tiles below.

Upcoming Programmes in Digital Creative

Games Developer Foundry Wales

Skills Bootcamp

Digital Skills

Beginner

Hybrid

Bridgend

9 months

Rolling Entry Points: March – December 2023

Always dreamed of working in the Gaming Sector? Now you can make that dream a reality by applying to attend the Games Developer Foundry Wales. Develop your programming skills in C# and learn to develop in Unity, the world’s most popular gaming engine. Once you’ve got to grips with the basics, you can choose to specialise in either Games Design, modelling visual and audio elements, or Games Development, where you’ll build new worlds and optimise the game’s code. This is a part-time, hybrid programme designed to fit in around your busy schedule.

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Professional Upskilling

Digital Skills

Intermediate

Hybrid

Cardiff

5 weeks

Starting 01 September 2023

Learn how to deploy custom software solutions in a cloud hosted environment using the most popular Cloud Service Provider on the market. Deploy databases, serverless functions and websites all within a fully scalable pay-as-you-go service. Work towards AWS Cloud Practitioner certification with this five-day programme with the Cloud Practitioner exam included.

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Games Entrepreneurship Foundry

Skills Bootcamp

Digital Skills

Intermediate

Advanced

Hybrid

Bridgend

12 weeks

Starting 11 September 2023

If you’ve got an idea for a game, or you’ve developed a game but you’re not sure how to take it to market, apply to join the Creative Entrepreneurship Foundry. Become your own boss, and collaborate with creative and programming professionals to develop and publish your own game, pitch to investors and learn the basics of growing a successful digital business.

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Skills Bootcamp in Games Development

Digital Skills

Skills Bootcamp

Beginner

Intermediate

Hybrid

Bristol

10 weeks

Starting 16 October 2023

Always dreamed of working in the Gaming Sector? Now you can make that dream a reality by applying to attend the Skills Bootcamp in Games Development. In this intense, fulltime bootcamp, you’ll develop your programming skills in C# and learn to develop in Unity, the world’s most popular gaming engine. In this module, you’ll build new worlds and optimise the game’s code. You’ll practise pair programming and collaborative software development using a range of professional tools and software packages. Did we mention there’s a guaranteed interview at the end?

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