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Risk Management for Game Development Students
Introduction
Learn the practical production skills that improve team projects, final-year work, and employability.
Game development degrees place significant emphasis on teamwork, production discipline, and deliverable quality. This learning ecosystem provides clear, practical training aligned with the challenges students face in real projects and professional environments.
What Students Will Learn
Aligned with the 12-week academic module, students gain skills in:
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Identifying and classifying risks across disciplines
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Analysing and prioritising risks using structured frameworks
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Creating effective mitigation plans
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Communicating risk clearly to peers and lecturers
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Managing uncertainty across the game lifecycle
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Preparing studio-ready production artefacts
These skills directly improve performance in team projects and capstone modules.
Why This Matters for Your Degree
Students often struggle not because of technical or creative weakness but because of production problems.
Common failure patterns:
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Unclear scope
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Late integration
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Missing prototypes
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Miscommunication
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Overproduction
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Technical assumptions
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Ambitious features without feasibility checks
This programme teaches the habits and tools that prevent these failures.
What You Will Produce
By the end of the module, students create a professional set of portfolio artefacts:
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A complete risk register
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Mitigation plans
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Weekly update slides
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Lifecycle mapping for their project
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Reflective commentary showing production discipline
These artefacts demonstrate readiness for junior producer roles, QA leadership, and team coordination positions.
Topics Covered (High Level)
Foundations (Weeks 1–2)
Why risk exists in games; risk types; classification; common patterns.
Process and Methods (Weeks 3–7)
Structured identification, analysis, mitigation, monitoring, and communication.
Risk Categories in Depth (Weeks 8–10)
Technical, engineering, design, art, production, scheduling, operational, team, and organisational risks.
Advanced Topics (Week 11)
Governance, product management, platform compliance, data privacy, security, and mobile considerations.
Lifecycle Integration (Week 12)
Concept → Pre-production → Production → Alpha → Beta → Launch → LiveOps.
Students learn how risk evolves across the entire development process.
Who This Is For
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Undergraduate and postgraduate game development students
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Final-year teams preparing a major project
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Students seeking production-oriented roles
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Anyone wanting to understand team, scope, scheduling, or technical risks
No prior production experience is required.
Student Access Options
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Through your university (module-aligned delivery)
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Via the accompanying online course
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Through community or Discord channels provided by the Game Production Academy
Students benefit from structured templates, worksheets, and ongoing guidance.
Next Steps for Students
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Enrol in the online course for extended training (Coming soon)
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