A hugely appreciated prize sponsor for 2018 is Wacom, who have generously provided several exceptional prizes for the winners of the art challenges. Want to know what our 2018 art winners think of their Wacom prizes? Let’s take a look at what they’ve received… Wacom Intuos Pro Our Search for a Star Character Art & Environment […]
Introducing our new Grads In Games partner Gamer Camp who are sponsoring our Search For A Star competition. Created and staffed by industry veterans, Gamer Camp is a unique finishing school for game developers (including coders, artists, designers and producers), designed to give graduates the skills and experience the games industry demands. Endorsed by the the […]
Grads In Games is thrilled to partner with PlayStation First for our Search For A Star competition. PlayStation First is Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) Global Academic Program, designed to inspire and encourage the new wave of developers to create games across all PlayStation platforms. Universities signed up to PlayStation First can access PlayStation […]
nDreams are the UK’s largest developer and publisher of virtual reality games and experiences. Their journey began in 2006 when they quickly established themselves as the leading publisher in PlayStation Home and as a developer of several major alternate reality games. When the Oculus Rift and Sony’s Project Morpheus burst into existence in 2013, they […]
HackerRank is a community platform which ranks programmers based on their coding skills, allowing engineers to hone their skills and companies to find top engineers. Previously working as software engineers, founders Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi built automatic CodeChallenges as a means of singling out the best coders in the recruitment process, and this ultimately […]
Atomhawk Design are a leading visual development and design studio, specialising in games, films and digital media. Their impressive client roster features big names like Marvel, Disney Interactive, BBC, Warner Bros Games, Song and Microsoft Studios. Some of the exciting projects they’ve worked on to date include Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mortal Kombat X, Dead […]
Furious Bee are passionate about making games, and helping others make them too. Although the team is made up of just two people, Technical Director Lizi Attwood and Creative Director Ross Mansfield have over 30 years’ industry experience between them, and have worked on top games titles like Call of Duty: Strike Team and CSR […]
Supporting partner Edge Case Games are the masterminds behind works like Strike Suit Zero, a dog-fighting, space combat game. In their own words, they have their heads so far in the clouds, all they can see is stars! Made up of around 25 developers, many of which games industry experts, the Guildford-based studio is continuing to […]
Staffordshire University joined our Grads In Games initiative this year as a host for our first ever Search for a Star Art finals & conference day event. Founded in 1914, Staffordshire University are situated at the heart of the UK, with two campuses in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Established as one of the top universities for […]
Exient Games are a leading independent video game developer, who have worked with the likes of EA Games, Sony and Activision, and contributed to big titles like Need For Speed, Angry Birds Transformers and Angry Birds Go! Founded in 2010 and based in Oxford, Leamington Spa and Malta, Exient specialise in both original and contract titles […]