RS23 Games Programming Winner : Robbe Mahieu
Congratulations to Robbe Mahieu from Howest DAE, our winner in the Games Programming category in Rising Star 2023!
SFAS23 Games Programming Winner : Luke McFarlane
Congratulations to Luke McFarlane from Abertay University, our winner in the Games Programming category in Search For A Star 2023!
Search For A Star | Games Programming Finalists 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 […]
Games Programming Projects | SFAS23
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 […]
Games Programming Projects | SFAS22
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 […]
Francisco Nicolau: Search For A Star Games Programming Winner 2021
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, […]
Kian Bennett : d3t Rising Star Programming Winner 2021
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 […]
Games Programming Projects | SFAS21
It’s been another excellent year for Search For A Star in the Games Programming category! Working from a simple base project, students from universities across the UK & Europe have flexed their coding muscles & produced a range of excellent games As with the other categories, this years work has been of a very high […]
SFAS 2020 – Where are they now?
We catch up with Search for a Star 2020 Programming winner Matthew Lowe!
Sumo Digital Rising Star Games Programming Winner 2020 : Justyna Kwiatkowska
Congratulations to Justyna Kwiatkowska from the University of Central Lancashire, our Games Programming winner of Sumo Digital Rising Star 2020! Justyna topped the project stage with her excellent game development project, The Catgeon, earning her a place in the finals. Our assessors were really impressed by Justyna’s project, ranking it first overall, ahead of even […]