We caught up with this year’s Search For A Star Character Art winner, Tristan McGuire from Solent University, to find out what it’s been like to win the challenge & what the win has since led to. On winning Search For A Star “My initial reaction as I was watching the stream was just, Wow! […]
As part of this year’s Games Careers Week we trialled a new online careers fair format for Grads In Games, since we haven’t had a chance to run anything in-person over the past year. In previous years, we’ve run a careers fair alongside our Grads In Games Student Conference and the Search For A Star […]
If you missed out on this year’s student conference during Games Careers Week, we’ve started to make recordings of the talk sessions available. This year’s conference featured an exceptional range of speakers, all dedicated to providing students with tips, guidance and information to help start a career in games, all based on actual experience. From […]
Starting with 1200 registered students, this year’s Search for A Star & d3t Rising Star game development challenges have once again been the largest we’ve ever seen! Each challenge tasks students with completing a game project to an industry brief, either in games programming, environment art, character art, animation or VFX. Projects are reviewed by […]
We’ve had another fantastic year for Search For A Star, with 225 games projects created by students from across the UK and Europe. We’re now reaching the final stage of the challenges, and are pleased to reveal our finalists for 2021! These students have shown high level skills and created exceptional projects over the course […]
Welcome Mark Flanagan, Education Program Manager at Epic Games, to this year’s Grads In Games Student Conference! Mark is the latest confirmed speaker for the Grads in Games Student Conference on March 29th, and will be sharing insight into the next generation of Unreal Engine technology! Mark is the Education Program Manager at Epic Games […]
It’s been hinted at a few times over the past couple of weeks and you may have noticed the news sneaking out into a few places, but we’re incredibly pleased to officially announce that Grads In Games is now operating as an independent not-for-profit company! This move has been in the works for quite some […]
We’re very pleased to welcome Zoë Sams, Tools Programmer at Rockstar North, to this year’s Grads In Games Student Conference! Zoë is the latest confirmed speaker for the Grads in Games Student Conference on March 29th, and will be sharing experiences of combating impostor syndrome, and from her career in the video games industry at […]
We’re very pleased to welcome Jessie Thomson to this year’s Grads In Games Student Conference! Jessie is an Animation Programmer at Cloud Imperium Games, working across AI and animation. The latest confirmed speaker for the Grads in Games Student Conference on March 29th will be sharing experiences from their career in the video games industry, […]
We’re very pleased to welcome Fawzi Mesmar to this year’s Grads In Games Student Conference! Fawzi is the Head of Design at EA DICE, with a prestigious 18 year career across numerous leading titles.