We’re very happy to welcome back our founding partner Lizi Attwood and Furious Bee, joining GiG for the 2023/24 academic year! As well as being a talented programmer and expert consultant in her field, Lizi plays a leading role in our Search For A Star & Rising Star code challenges, and has been a core […]
We’re very happy to welcome a new partner in PlusMusic, joining GiG for the 2023/24 academic year! PlusMusic is pioneering adaptive music technology for games, helping developers to create unique soundtracks that adapt to gameplay. Their middleware tool provides the opportunity to deconstruct and seamlessly reassemble soundtracks into new and exciting combinations, at a runtime […]
We’re very pleased to have longstanding partners Red Kite Games returning to GiG for the 2023/24 academic year! Red Kite Games have been involved with both our Get In The Game careers events and Search For A Star gamedev challenges for many years now, and have been an integral part of Grads In Games from […]
We’re very pleased to have 10:10 Games returning as a partner studio for the 2023/24 academic year. 10:10 Games are a big supporter across both our Get In The Game careers events and throughout the Search For A Star gamedev challenges, and have previously provided first roles to several people from across our GiG community. […]
We’re very pleased to have the returning support of long-term partners d3t once again, joining us for the 2023/24 academic year. Over the years we’ve worked closely with d3t across both our Get In The Game careers events and throughout the Search For A Star gamedev challenges. We look forward to continuing that this year, […]
Starting with 1100 students signing up to take part across 6 categories, this year’s Search for A Star & Rising Star game development challenges have been one of the largest we’ve ever seen! Each challenge tasks students with completing a game project to an industry brief, which are then reviewed by our team of industry […]
We’d like to extend a massive thanks all of our Search For A Star Assessment Team! It’s always a huge task to get so many student projects marked with actionable feedback, and every year we’re humbled to see the industry step up to the challenge! Search for a Star and Rising Star literally couldn’t happen […]
Congratulations to Robbe Mahieu from Howest DAE, our winner in the Games Programming category in Rising Star 2023!
Congratulations to Alicia Figueiredo Amaral from the University of Huddersfield, our winner of the Character Art category in Rising Star 2023!
Congratulations to Tom Verbeeck from Howest DAE, our winner of the Environment Art category in Rising Star 2023!