This year was the biggest yet for Search For A Star. Over 800 students applied to take part in the competition, and our art branch grew substantially to accommodate the interest generated from its first year. It’s been little less than a month since the competition has ended and we’re already hearing some great things from […]
From left to right, Kyle Hobdey, Ian Goodall, and Alfred Norton Search For A Star 2017 is now well and truly over for another year! We had a great time meeting all the students and studios involved and we hope to see you again next year. Before our Code winners, Kyle Hobdey from the University of Central […]
After months of hard work and fantastic projects 22 art finalists from around the UK and Europe arrived at the University of Hertfordshire for the 7th annual Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Art Finals Day! Finalists underwent an industry-styled interview in front of a panel of experienced specialist judges […]
Yesterday we held our 7th annual Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Code Final’s Day competition! Ten finalists from all over the UK and Europe travelled to Staffordshire University for a day of interviews, networking and presentations by representatives from leading UK studios including Sumo Digital, Playground Games and Boss Alien. […]
We’re excited to announce that Frontier will be present at both Search For A Star Code and Art Finals Day. Founded in 1994, Cambridge-based Frontier is one of the games industry’s leading independent developers. With over 300 staff, Frontier are able to design, develop and publish genre defining games such as Zoo Tycoon, Elite […]
Code Finals Day is quickly coming up! The competition will be opening it’s doors at 9am at Staffordshire University, where our panel of code judges will be meeting our finalists for the first time. If you want to join in on the day, you can still book your free tickets here! Search For A Star […]
. 2017 has been the biggest year yet for Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star. The second year running our art competition has seen 219 talented artists submitting work for our first round of the competition! . Our amazing round two industry judges have donated their valuable time and marked all our […]
Today we’re happy to announce our Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Code finalists! This year was the biggest yet, with 405 programmers completing our first round C++ Hacker Rank test. Our fantastic round two judges have spent their time playing some amazing games and delving deep into our students’ code to […]
Just today, a number of our Search For A Star & Rising Star winners, Sam Bang, Rachel Cabot and Anthea van Leeuwen were given an honourable mention in the 2017 Develop 30 Under 30 list. To have your hard work recognised alongside many other young, dedicated individuals who’re all making a big impact in the […]
Our sister site Grads in Games have been busy with our Search For A Star competition – a record breaking 118 students have submitted a range of games, 3D artwork, animations and VFX work for the second round of Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star. Over forty members of industry have come together […]