The assessments have been received back and we have our finalists selection for this year’s Search For A Star and Rising Star challenges in Games Programming! We’ll be interviewing all the finalists and revealing the winners of this year’s challenges as part of our Search For A Star finals event, taking place on April 13th […]
The assessments have been received back and we have our finalists selection for this year’s Search For A Star and Rising Star challenges in Character Art! We’ll be interviewing all the finalists and revealing the winners of this year’s challenges as part of our Search For A Star finals event, taking place on April 13th […]
Check out our Games VFX student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! Realtime VFX for games is an area that’s in huge demand across the industry, though it’s still an area that most universities don’t provide any specialisation in. As a result, we rarely see more than a few entries in […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]