We caught up with this year’s Search For A Star Games Programming winner, Francisco Nicolau from the University of Lisbon Instituto Superior Técnico, to find out what it’s been like to win the challenge and what he’s learned since reaching the finals last year. On winning Search For A Star “When I saw the announcement, […]
We caught up with this year’s Search For A Star Games VFX winner, Sam Mayson from the University of Hertfordshire, to find out what it’s been like to win the challenge and what they’ve learned since reaching the finals last year. On winning Search For A Star “I’m absolutely bloody chuffed that I’ve won! After […]
We caught up with this year’s d3t Rising Star Character Art winner, Gia Han Lam from Howest DAE, to find out what it’s been like to win the challenge and what she’s learned from the process. On winning d3t Rising Star “It was quite surprising! I was watching the livestream together with a few friends […]
With over 1200 students registering to take part this was always going to be one of the biggest editions of Search For A Star and d3t Rising Star. We’ve seen an exceptionally high bar of quality this year & some truly inspirational work from students hoping to soon start a career in videogames, and we […]
We caught up with this year’s d3t Rising Star Games Animation winner, Martin Pech from University of South Wales, to find out what it’s been like to win the challenge & what advice he’d pass on to future entrants. On winning d3t Rising Star “I was just overwhelmed — I wasn’t even expecting to be […]
We caught up with this year’s Search For A Star Games Animation winner, Sankalp Sharma from Stafforshire 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 “It feels amazing to win! There was so much competition, everyone has […]
We caught up with this year’s d3t Rising Star Games Programming winner, Kian Bennett from The University of Portsmouth, to find out what it’s been like to win the challenge & what the win has since led to. On winning d3t Rising Star “My friends and family watched the live stream along with me and […]
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! […]
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 […]