Career pathway

Since the order to accomplish in becoming a writer for games in an established company requires a bachelor’s degree or some professional experience; Brunel University London teaches creative writing for games - as well as games design. 
The course is taught by:

This course will help you to develop your creative writing skills and focus on how they relate to games design and game play. You’ll learn about the application of traditional story and narrative design and how it applies to games design and gameplay.

Your learning will come through lectures, workshops, seminars, play sessions and tutorials. You’ll also use the online forum to discuss, share and develop your knowledge. You’ll gain confidence in sharing your ideas, giving and receiving feedback and working individually as well as in a multi-disciplinary team.

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On the students’ first year, they’re first introduced to the fundamentals of games design and its mechanics, then through the year, they begin learning about drama, poetry, then fiction. I personally agree with this method of teaching as it’s a form of a warm-up for the students to understand the forms of the English language and literature in writing traditionally - which would then benefit for writing for games. 

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Then in their second year, they begin to learn about the mechanics and economics, concepts and analysis of games design. Students are also offered optional courses of games development, game user experience and research, game genres, setting and world design, writing contemporary poetry, writing journalism, writing the short story, screenwriting, horror, sci-fi and fantasy, creative writing for therapeutic purposes, and life writing. 
Even though some of the optional courses do not hold the background of writing for games, students could still take a different route in their career that could perhaps be related to games. However, for students taking any of the options that don’t appear related to games, can use the advantage of the courses to extend further knowledge about games in writing proficiently with a background of advanced skills. This is also an advantage for the students to use in their future projects in their third year and in their progressed careers in the games industry or any other career within the aspect of media. 

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And finally, in their third year, the classes merge into a group by learning the compulsory courses about, theory of games design, commercial games, experimental games, games assets, game based learning, major game project, team project, traditional games, design, business and development, game analysis, people, communities and cultures, and creative writing special project. With these courses, they begin to further understand the concepts and responsibilities of a writer for games through these major projects. 
For the optional courses, the courses are the same, except there are additional courses:
Psychogeography, creative industries, writing film and television, writing modern fiction, writing comedy, and performance poetry. Similarly, like in the second year, these are advantages to the students’ developed knowledge of the optional or compulsory courses they chose from the second year. For example, if a student chose to study horror, sci-fi and fantasy and then also chose writing modern fiction or writing film and television, the student would be well-developed for the creative media industry to create epic, fantastic films of one of the three genres.

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For students who have applied for this course and learning it will effectively learn how to write for games proficiently in a manner where they ready enough to face and join the games industry as a games writer.