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News, articles, insights & updates on Grads In Games’ annual Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star game development challenges.

Game Design Projects | SFAS23

Game Design Projects | SFAS23

March 24, 2023 Dan Dudley 0

Check out our Game Design student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! This year and for the first time, we’ve introduced a Design challenge to Search For A Star! Developed by our partners at 10:10 Games, the Design challenge asked students to create a prototype based around an original game design […]

Posted in Game Design, Projects, Search For A Star10:10 Games Game Design SFAS23
Character Art Projects | SFAS 2023

Character Art Projects | SFAS 2023

March 7, 2023March 23, 2023 David Heath 0

Lets take a look at our 3D Character Art student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! Character Art is always one of our most popular disciplines for entries and this year is no different! As one of the core three gamedev subjects Character art is an instrumental part of Games Development. […]

Posted in Art, Projects, Search For A StarCharacter art SFAS23
3D Environment Projects | SFAS 2023

3D Environment Projects | SFAS 2023

March 2, 2023March 8, 2023 David Heath 0

Lets take a look at our 3D environment student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! Environment art is one of the most popular categories in SFAS and is a huge part of the games industry, incorporating aspects of prop and scene art, level art, textures and materials, lighting and more. Developing […]

Posted in Art, Projects, Search For A StarEnvironment Art SFAS23
Games Programming Projects | SFAS23

Games Programming Projects | SFAS23

February 28, 2023February 28, 2023 Dan Dudley 0

Check out our Games Programming student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! This year we decided to focus purely on C++ coding for our programming challenge, as it’s the primary language that most studios are looking for from graduate coders. While the increased challenge caused a significant drop in the number […]

Posted in Games, Programming, Projects, Search For A StarGames Programming SFAS23
Games Animation | SFAS23

Games Animation | SFAS23

February 21, 2023 Dan Dudley 0

Our Games Animation student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! Although most uni courses tend to focus only animation for film and TV, realtime games animation is still a hugely important area of study. Good animation brings life to games and is often one of the key things that create the […]

Posted in Games Animation, Projects, Search For A StarGames Animation
The Big Search For A Star Round-Up 2022

The Big Search For A Star Round-Up 2022

May 4, 2022May 13, 2022 Harry Stainer 0

At 9 am on the 22nd of April, students who had taken place in Search for a Star flocked to Sheffield Hallam University for our Finals Day Event! This served as a celebration of all the amazing work submitted to the gamedev competition but also allowed the lucky finalists to have interviews with industry professionals […]

Posted in News, Search For A Starchallenge Finals Day gamedev Grads In Games Partners Search For A Star
Search for A Star Finals Day 2022: Finalist Recap

Search for A Star Finals Day 2022: Finalist Recap

April 28, 2022May 16, 2022 Harry Stainer 0

This year saw over 1100 more students registering to take part in Search For A Star and Rising Star and what an achievement each and every individual made by getting a submission In. The dedication of our participants and the quality of their submissions is nothing short of incredible and the finalists & winners of […]

Posted in News, Search For A Star2022 awards Challenges gamedev Search For A Star
Search For A Star & Rising Star presented by Rockstar Games 2022: The Winners

Search For A Star & Rising Star presented by Rockstar Games 2022: The Winners

April 27, 2022May 16, 2022 Harry Stainer 0

Starting with 1200 registered students, this year’s Search for A Star & 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 our […]

Posted in Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersSearch For A Star SFAS22 Winners
Character Art Projects | SFAS22

Character Art Projects | SFAS22

February 16, 2022February 24, 2022 Harry Stainer 0

Today we take a look at our Character Art student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2022! Character Art is always one of our most popular disciplines for entries and this year is no different! As one of the core three gamedev subjects Character art is an instrumental part of Games Development. […]

Posted in Art, Projects, Search For A StarCharacter art SFAS22
Games Programming Projects | SFAS22

Games Programming Projects | SFAS22

February 16, 2022March 21, 2022 Dan Dudley 0

Check out our Games Programming student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2022! It’s been another great year for our game development category, with another wide range of creative responses to the project brief! For their Search For A Star projects, our student programmers were given a very basic prototype of a […]

Posted in Games, Programming, Projects, Search For A StarGames Programming SFAS22

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