Check out our Games Programming student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024!

For their challenge projects, our student programmers were given a very basic prototype of a rotational puzzle game and tasked with building on the codebase to add new features and mechanics, developed in C++. Everyone is given creative control of the game design, with the condition that they base their work around the original code.

A huge congratulations to everyone who submitted their projects, and well done to everyone who took part!

Our assessment team of games programmers from across the industry are currently hard at work reviewing all of the project submissions and providing feedback, and the highest achieving students will be chosen to move forward to our finals day event in April.

The Search For A Star challenges are run by Grads In Games with the support of our our studio partners at d3t, 10:10 Games, Red Kite Games, Furious Bee, Steel City Interactive, PlusMusic, our supporting partners at XR Games, The National Videogame Museum and Sheffield Hallam University, our prize providers Adobe, and our recruitment partners at Aardvark Swift

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Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024 Programming Projects

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Search For A Star Programming Projects 2024

Final year & post-graduate Masters students, graduating in 2024.

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Alexander Smith

Glasgow Caledonian University

Gravity Sling

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Jared Carr

Edinburgh Napier University

LockSpinner

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Nikolay Sotirov

University of Portsmouth

Player Is Too OP

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Oluwapelumi Ayeni

Solent University

Water Works

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Oskar Talar

Falmouth University

The Endless Circle

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Sadhana Krish Thanga Jawahar

Queen Mary University of London

Just Another 2D Platformer

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Tanapat Somrid

Abertay University

Pirate Bay

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Rising Star Programming Projects 2024

Undergraduate students graduating in 2025 or later, or college/school level students.

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Ash Henry

Liverpool John Moores University

Scuffed Space Shooters

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Dmitrii Kolchin

University of the Creative Arts

Hotline Dungeon

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Finlay Laidlaw

Abertay University

AURIONNAUT

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Jade Friend

Ravensbourne University

Super Star-ogon

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Stuart Heath

Coventry University

Pickle Engine

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