As you’ll no doubt already be aware, COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is causing delays and issues for events across the industry. This year the Grads in Games Awards were due to be part of the BGI’s GamesEd20 conference, on April 16th at the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield. It has now been made public that GamesEd20 has been moved back to September 7th […]
We’d like to extend a massive thank you to all of our SFASX Assessors! It’s always a mammoth task to get so many student projects marked with actionable feedback, and every year we’re humbled to see the industry step up to the challenge! Search for a Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star literally couldn’t happen […]
It’s been a record-breaking year for the Grads in Games Awards! We’ve had some truly outstanding nominations, which means that we needed top-tier games industry professionals to preside over the judging period. We put out the call and these lovely people (that you can see below) stepped up to make a difference, by recognising those […]
Well; that was unexpected! Grads in Games Awards nominees are now all in and recorded. Not only did you come out in force to vote for those working incredibly hard in games industry education, you broke our all-time record for submissions! It’s heartwarming to see so many messages of support for lecturers, students, studios and […]
Founded back in 2003, Sumo Digital have since grown to eight studios worldwide! The most recent addition to their team being Sumo Warrington in the North West. This new location is headed up by Scott Kirkland, a BAFTA nominated developer with 23 years of industry experience. Their India-based studio, Sumo Pune, celebrates its thirteen-year anniversary […]
Velocity WS started producing professional workstations in 2018. Their vision for their workstations come from 12 years of supplying bespoke server solutions to businesses all over the globe, through their parent company Server Case UK. Across both companies, their servers and workstations are hand-crafted specifically to order. Their industry accredited technical team are passionate about […]
The Grads in Games Awards are back for 2020. Designed to recognise the work of universities, academics, students and studios in improving and encouraging graduate employment in the games industry; the Grads in Games Awards are the first of their kind. Every year we come into contact with thousands of students who are looking to […]
TT Games are world-renowned for their critically acclaimed work on the LEGO games series. Established in 2005, TT Games has grown to include multiple studios and its own publishing arm, which have all been responsible for the release of over 30 LEGO games. TT Odyssey, originally TT Brighton, was launched in 2018 specifically to focus […]
Today we’re looking at another amazing studio partner for our Search for a Star game-dev challenges. nDreams is an employer committed to growth and development of talented game makers, from grass-roots through to senior staff. nDreams are an award-winning virtual reality developer and publisher. As one of the biggest and most experienced VR studios in […]
BossAlien and NaturalMotion Games are a valued partner of Grads in Games and have been supporting us for a number of years. They also joined us as guest speakers on the Get in the Game university tour for 2019. The studios have always shared our passion of supporting graduate game developers who are entering the […]