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Want to join this year's SFAS assessment team?

Want to join this year’s SFAS assessment team?

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 Dan Dudley 0

With our Search For A Star and d3t Rising Star gamedev challenges well under way, we’ve still got openings for game developers who would like to be a part of this year’s assessment team.

Posted in Articles, Search For A StarAssessors SFAS21
Search For A Star 2021

Another huge year for Search For A Star, with 2021 data breaking all previous entry records!

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 Dan Dudley 0

Continuing our year-on-year growth, we’ve smashed all previous records once again for Search For A Star entries, with over 1200 student registrations for the 2021 challenges!

Posted in Articles, News, Search For A Stard3t Rising Star SFAS21
Staffordshire breaks record with 100 entrants in Search For A Star 2021, and still 3 weeks left to enter!

Staffordshire breaks record with 100 entrants in Search For A Star 2021, and still 3 weeks left to enter!

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

With three weeks still to register, over 700 students from over 100 universities across the UK, Europe & worldwide have already signed up for the Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star challenges.

Posted in Articles, News, Search For A StarAbertay University Birmingham City University De Montfort University Falmouth University SFAS21 Sheffield Hallam University Staffordshire University UCLAN University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield University of South Wales
SFASX Finals Judges

Our Finals Day Judges – Search For A Star 2020

April 15, 2020April 16, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

Next week our Search For A Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star Finalists will be facing our expert industry judges in the final stage of the challenges! This is the culmination of months of work across the 10th anniversary of Search For A Star, with students creating & publishing over 200 gamedev projects across programming, […]

Posted in Articles, News, Search For A StarFinals Day Judges Search for a Star 2020 SFASX
A Massive Thank You to Our SFASX Assessors

A Massive Thank You to Our SFASX Assessors

March 5, 2020March 6, 2020 James Bowers 0

We’d like to extend a massive thank you to all of our SFASX Assessors! It’s always a mammoth 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 Sumo Digital Rising Star literally couldn’t happen […]

Posted in Articles, News2020 assessors Assessors Finals Day Grads In Games Rising Star Search For A Star SFASX Sumo Digital Sumo Digital Rising Star
Search For A Star entry stats 2019 + summary so far

2019 SFAS student entry stats + progress summary

February 20, 2019 Dan Dudley 0

We’re a big chunk of the way into Search For A Star 2019, so here’s a wrap up of the entry stats & leading games universities for this years challenges!

Posted in Articles, News, Search For A StarCloud Imperium Frontier Developments games jobs Get In The Game Rebellion SFAS19 Sheffield Hallam University Sumo Digital
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 : The Winners

Search for a Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 – The Winners!

April 10, 2018 Alex 0

The Search for a Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 challenges have come to a close. 2018 has been one of the best so far, with such a high calibre of students that even getting to the finals was a close challenge, let alone our judges having to make a final decision on the […]

Posted in Art, Articles, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersAdelaide Coldham Boss Alien Cloud Imperium Futureworks Get In The Game Grads In Games Howest Jacob Beckley Jimmy Ghysens Joe Bamber John Green Kial Oliver-Gibson nDreams Newcastle University NHTV Programming Rising Star Robert Arnold Saif Munawar Search For A Star SFAS18 Shannon Symonds Sheffield Hallam University Southampton Solent Sumo Digital UCLAN Unity University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield
Search for a Star 2018 Meet the Final's Day Judges

Search for a Star 2018 Meet the Final’s Day Judges

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 Alex 0

One of the most important features of Search for a Star is the support of games professionals. Their expert knowledge informs the challenges; their feedback on the submissions makes a real difference to entrants, and their years of industry experience make them the perfect judges to conduct the interviews at Finals Day. You have already […]

Posted in Art, Articles, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Search For A StarBoss Alien Creative Assembly d3t Exient Finals Day Furious Bee nDreams Programming Red Kite Games Rising Star Search For A Star SFAS17 SFAS18 Splash Damage Sumo Digital
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Finalists 2018

Search for a Star 2018 – Finalists Confirmed

March 22, 2018March 29, 2018 Alex 0

Search for a Star 2018 – Finalists Confirmed With Final’s Day a little over 2 weeks away we are proud to announce the full list of this year’s lucky challenge Finalists. With months of hard work behind them, these lucky few will progress to Final’s Day, at Sheffield Hallam University. There they will face an expert […]

Posted in Art, Articles, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Search For A StarAbertay University Art ArtStation Bradford University Brunel University finalists Futureworks Media School Graduates Howest Newcastle University NHTV Programming Ravensbourne Rising Star Search For A Star SFAS Finalists SFAS18 Sheffield Hallam University Southampton Solent University Sumo Digital UCL UCLAN University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield UWE
Rising Star 2016 Winner

Meet James: A Sumo Digital Rising Star Winner

March 2, 2018March 2, 2018 Alex 0

While the assessors pour over submissions, write feedback and help put together shortlists we thought we would take a moment look back at one of our recent Rising Star winners. James Hutchison won an interview for the Sumo Digital Rising Star code placement last year, and landed the role! He has been working hard as part […]

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