I from Creative Media year one.
Join the course only if you have genuine interest, cos you need to
do drawing, software and alot of technical stuff along with the
creative ones. The course quite taxing in terms of amount of
assignment and all, definitely very jialat if you not
interested.
As for Games Design, they do make board games in first year bah.
That i think is for them to learn how games work and all. But they
also learn character design, programming, scripting etc. so it's
not really that bad lah. But this year the cut-off for Games Design
quite high. My friends sometimes slack off by playing DOTA in
class, so yeah. Anyway, hope I answered any questions you may have
about the course.
Before I forget, these two courses along with most design courses
don't have examinations... cos the assignment already counted as
your examination marks.