Our 2019 Grads in Games awards shortlist is here! We’ve had a truly fantastic response to the awards this year, it’s been a record year for nominations, increasing by 24% from 2018. You really have helped us to highlight and celebrate all the super studios, amazing academics, star students and upstanding universities with your nominations.

The awards were set up for the stand out stories you all have about the individuals who really went that extra mile, the studio who gave you your first job and was more supportive and nurturing than you could’ve ever imagined. Or, maybe it’s the university that could not have prepared you more for life in the games industry or perhaps the person that you just wanna say “my dream wouldn’t be complete without you in it” to quote from The Princess and the Frog, as your dream of becoming a professional gamedev wouldn’t have come true without them.

It’s a way to say thank you and to share those stories, personally I think being nominated for an award or potentially winning one is better than any thank you I’ve ever received!

However clichéd it may seem it’s a close one this year as all the nominations we received were so deserving.

We’ll be presenting the awards as part of our Search For A Star finals and conference day on the 17th April in Sheffield, which is open to all games studios, universities and games students.

If you’re a Student/Academic, you can book your ticket here.

If you’re from a studio you can book your ticket here.

Full details on the category criteria can be found at gradsingames.com/awards

*Drum roll* The nominees are…

The Grads in Games Awards

Nominees 2019

Academic Award

Chris Headleand, University of Lincoln

Dave Moore, Sheffield Hallam University

Gareth Bellaby, University of Central Lancashire

Matthew Novak, University of Huddersfield

Neil Gallagher, University of Hertfordshire

Educational Institution

Birmingham City University (Gamer Camp)

Breda University of Applied Sciences

ESNE, University School of Design, Innovation and Technology

National Film & Television School

University of Huddersfield

Wrexham Glyndwr University

Core Tech Programmer

in partnership with d3t

Daniel Gomez-Casan, Abertay University

Friedel Verpoort, Howest DAE

Hakeem Bux, University of East Anglia

John Green, University of Central Lancashire

Technical Artist

Bailey Martin, Solent University

Ben Ashcroft, University of Hertfordshire

Ivo Van Roji, Breda University of Applied Sciences

Oliver Dawes, University of Saint Andrews

Graduate Employer

Creative Assembly

d3t

Firesprite

Frontier

nDreams

Outplay

Red Kite Games

Ubisoft Reflections

Graduate Impact

Adam Da Rocha, Ten Hut Games

Andrew Hamilton, VTRON

Dale Green, Red Kite Games

Jake Missing, nDreams

Liam Sorta, Unity

Megan Brown, Frontier Developments

Nicolas Taylor, Ubisoft Reflections

Stephen Ikor, nDreams

Stephen Norgate, Sports Interactive

Thomas Keen, Atomhawk

Industry Collaboration

Doncaster University + Revolution Games

Huddersfield University + Red Kite Games

National Film and Television School+ Supermassive Games

Sheffield Hallam + Sony/ Playstation First

Multiple + Sports Interactive

Multiple + Ubisoft Coding Campus

Student Game

in partnership with Epic Games

Blast the Past
Horschule Darmstadt

Philipp Stenger : Game Designer/Engineer
János Weyhknecht : 3D Artist/Vision keeper
Marvin Spahn : 3D Artist
Nicholas Nickel : 3D Artist
Kylan Lenderink : Sound
Lucca Riitano : Sound
Isabell Starke : Voice

En Garde!
Rubika Supinfogame

Adrien Poncet : Game director, producer & sound designer
Valentin Capitaine : Game designer & AI designer
Corentin Mangé : Level designer & level builder
Sylvain Schmück : Gameplay programmer & 3C designer
Pierre Chapelet : Gameplay & AI programmer
Tim Guthmann : Animator, technical artist & level artist
Anaïs Simonnet : Character artist & level artist
Julien Fenoglio : Art director, concept artist & level artist

Lyra: The Traitor Lyngrave
University of Hertfordshire

Callum Tweedie-Walker
Alec Thomas

Misfolded
National Film and Television School

Timothy Kaufmann : Game Designer and Developer
Tom Dexter : Producer
Stephanie Taylor : Composer
Ioannis Spanos : Sound Designer
Gagandeep Kalirai : 2D Artist and Animator
Xanthe Bodington : Graphics and Titles
Rose Harvey : Marketing
Emilie Dubois : Social Media

Office Hustle
Breda University of Applied Sciences

Design: Bart-Jan Boersma, Jente van Rooij, Mees Wendels, Menno Verdonk, Sven Zondag
Programming: Marnix Kuijs, Stefano Lazzaroni, Vasilen Alexandrov
Art: Danielle Viljoen, Réka Horváth, Max Vetter

Project Falcon
University of Plymouth

Liam McFadyen – Creative Director

Student Hero

Chris Ross, University of Lincoln

Harriet Frayling, Birmingham City University

Huw Owen, Wreham Glyndwr University

James Moorby, University of Central Lancashire

Max Duffy, University of Central Lancashire

Michael Dixon, University of Derby

Oliver Hopley, University of Hertfordshire

Ellie Brown, Zachray Cundall & Helen Andrzejowska (Ocean Spark Studios), University of Huddersfield

We’d like to give you all a huge thank you for all your nominations and the shortlisted as we literally could not do the awards without you! Keep on developing the next generation of gamdevs.

I hope you can join us for the awards on the 17th April, full details and tickets are linked below!

If you’re a Student/Academic, you can book your ticket for the awards here.

If you’re from a studio you can book your ticket here.