Category: Articles

Microsoft UK : Our Industry Partners

Dan Dudley 0

We’d like to thank Microsoft for working with us to make Search For A Star a success. As part of their involvement with the graduate programming competition, Microsoft Technical Evangelist Lee Stott is kindly giving his time to act as judge for the competition. Microsoft are also generously providing the Microsoft Campus as the venue for the Finals day, a selection of awesome prizes for all finalists, and free publication to the Windows 8 Phone Store for all second stage games development projects.

Search For A Star – The Finalists 2014

Dan Dudley 0

With the final of the 2014 Search For A Star competition taking place at the Microsoft Campus next Monday, let’s take a closer look at this year’s finalists.
These five graduates and masters students have excelled through both the C++ test in round 1 and the game development & publishing project in round 2 to reach the final.

Rising Star 2014 – The Finalists

Dan Dudley 0

With the final round taking place at the Microsoft Campus on Monday, let’s take a closer look at our three Rising Star finalists for 2014; Milcho Milchev, Sam Parras and Sammy Hosny.
Out of over 90 initial entrants, these three second-year students have excelled through the first two stages of the competition to earn their place in the final.

Search For A Star 2014 : Round 3 Finalists Announcement

Search For A Star 2014 : Round 3 Finalists Announcement

Dan Dudley 0

This year’s finalists are seriously good – Over 200 entrants reduced down to an exclusive 5 graduate programmers & 3 second year students

Search For A Star 2014 : Round 2 Game Downloads

Search For A Star 2014 : Round 2 Game Downloads

Dan Dudley 0

After showing off gameplay videos of this year’s Search For A Star entries yesterday, we’ve got a hands-on option for you today – download the game projects onto your Win8 phones to play for yourself! As part of both the Search For A Star and Rising Star competitions, students were required to develop and a game from a […]

Search For A Star 2014 : Round 2 Games Demo Reel

Dan Dudley 0

With the second round of this year’s Search For A Star competition now closed, we’re giving you a video preview of some of this year’s games projects from both the Search For A Star & the Rising Star competitions. We’ve been massively impressed with a lot of the competition entries this year & wanted to share some of them […]

Shooting Star 2013 Winner – James Mintram

Dan Dudley 0

James Mintram, Northumbria University and Lemon Moose Games, has been crowned Shooting Star winner. The newly created category recognises the achievements of young indie studios founded by students. “Search for a star was a great opportunity to put everything I have learned over the last 3 years to the test.” said James. “The second round […]

Search For A Star 2013 Winner – Gavin Jones

Dan Dudley 0

Congratulations to Gavin Jones of the University of Central Lancashire, the 2013 winner of Search for a Star, the industry recognised student games development competition. “Entering Search for a Star seemed a natural decision as an opportunity to apply and demonstrate my abilities”, says Jones. “The second round of SFAS in particular proved both a […]