Lets take a look at our 3D environment student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! Environment art is one of the most popular categories in SFAS and is a huge part of the games industry, incorporating aspects of prop and scene art, level art, textures and materials, lighting and more. Developing […]
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 […]
Our Games Animation student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! Although most uni courses tend to focus only animation for film and TV, realtime games animation is still a hugely important area of study. Good animation brings life to games and is often one of the key things that create the […]
Games Careers Week is nearly here! We are happy to announce that Grads in Games will be hosting a few talks around the theme of Alternate Routes into Game Development as part of Games Careers Week. These talks will focus on individuals who found a unique path into the Game industry, highlighting the different ways […]
We’re starting preparation for our next year’s activities at Grads in Games and are currently open to studio partners for the 2022/23 academic year. Partnering with Grads in Games can be incredibly beneficial for studios, regardless of size. We’ve partnered with Triple-A teams, small independent studios and everyone in-between. This coming year we have some […]
At 9 am on the 22nd of April, students who had taken place in Search for a Star flocked to Sheffield Hallam University for our Finals Day Event! This served as a celebration of all the amazing work submitted to the gamedev competition but also allowed the lucky finalists to have interviews with industry professionals […]
This year saw over 1100 more students registering to take part in Search For A Star and Rising Star and what an achievement each and every individual made by getting a submission In. The dedication of our participants and the quality of their submissions is nothing short of incredible and the finalists & winners of […]
Starting with 1200 registered students, this year’s Search for A Star & Rising Star game development challenges have once again been the largest we’ve ever seen! Each challenge tasks students with completing a game project to an industry brief, either in games programming, environment art, character art, animation or VFX. Projects are reviewed by our […]
Last week the Grads in Games Awards returned with a flurry of winners announcements and congratulations.
It’s been an incredible few months since we opened nominations for the Grads in Games Awards and Today we want to focus on our Student Hero Award presented by Rockstar Games! This Award showcases Current games students who have demonstrated a positive impact on their fellow students over the past 12 months. We want to […]