Looking back at this year’s winners in more detail, we hear what our industry judges thought of the Games Programming winners. A huge thanks to all of the devs who took the time to sit on our judging panels and interview all of the finalists, and a well-earned congratulations to our winners this year! Search […]
The assessments have been completed and we have our finalists selection for this year’s Search For A Star and Rising Star challenges in Games Programming! Our programming category is the original challenge that we started out with back in 2010, and is designed to help students create a high level portfolio project based on a […]
Check out our Games Programming student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024! For their challenge projects, our student programmers were given a very basic prototype of a rotational puzzle game and tasked with building on the codebase to add new features and mechanics, developed in C++. Everyone is given creative control […]
Congratulations to Robbe Mahieu from Howest DAE, our winner in the Games Programming category in Rising Star 2023!
Congratulations to Luke McFarlane from Abertay University, our winner in the Games Programming category in Search For A Star 2023!
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 […]
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 […]
Check out our Games Programming student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2022! It’s been another great year for our game development category, with another wide range of creative responses to the project brief! For their Search For A Star projects, our student programmers were given a very basic prototype of a […]
We caught up with this year’s Search For A Star Games Programming winner, Francisco Nicolau from the University of Lisbon Instituto Superior Técnico, to find out what it’s been like to win the challenge and what he’s learned since reaching the finals last year. On winning Search For A Star “When I saw the announcement, […]
We caught up with this year’s d3t Rising Star Games Programming winner, Kian Bennett from The University of Portsmouth, to find out what it’s been like to win the challenge & what the win has since led to. On winning d3t Rising Star “My friends and family watched the live stream along with me and […]