Want to join this year’s SFAS assessment team?
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.
Another huge year for Search For A Star, with 2021 data breaking all previous entry records!
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!
Staffordshire breaks record with 100 entrants in Search For A Star 2021, and still 3 weeks left to enter!
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.
Our Finals Day Judges – Search For A Star 2020
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, […]
A Massive Thank You to Our SFASX Assessors
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 […]
2019 SFAS student entry stats + progress summary
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!
Search for a Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 – The Winners!
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 […]
Search for a Star 2018 Meet the Final’s Day Judges
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 […]
Search for a Star 2018 – Finalists Confirmed
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 […]
Meet James: A Sumo Digital Rising Star Winner
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 […]