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 The projects include impressive feline dungeon crawler, The Catgeon by Justyna Kwiatkowska, a survival […]
In yet another record-breaking year, we received 49 project submissions for Character Art across both Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star! The standard of quality also reached a new high, with excellent & inventive characters created across both tiers, including Beccy Collins’ Overwatch-inspired JetPack Cat, Pearse McKenna’s Alien Explorer, Madelaine Kendall-Murray’s sinister […]
Since we first launched the Games VFX challenge in 2017, it’s been a struggle to get a large number of entrants. VFX for games isn’t something that most universities cover and there’s only a few that really go into any detail on games-specific VFX. As a result, it’s also one of the few areas where […]
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 […]
The winners of the Grads in Games Awards will be announced on April 16th, on the evening of the GamesEd conference, at the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield.
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 […]