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Games Programming Projects | SFAS23

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Games Programming Projects | SFAS23

February 28, 2023February 28, 2023 Dan Dudley 0

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 of submissions compared to our previous C# / Unity challenge, the quality level is very high and completing a project is an achievement in itself!

For their Search For A Star projects, our student programmers were given a very basic prototype of a “spot the ball” game and tasked with building on the codebase to add new features and mechanics, developed in C++ and using Unreal Engine 5. Everyone is given creative control of the game design, with the condition that they base their work around the original code.

A huge congratulations to everyone who submitted their projects, and well done to everyone who took part!

The Search For A Star challenges are run by Grads In Games with the support of our headline partner Yahaha, and our studio partners at Cloud Imperium, d3t, 10:10 Games, Red Kite Games, Furious Bee, Escape Technology & our recruitment partners at Aardvark Swift


Search For A Star 2023 Projects

Final year & post-graduate Masters students, graduating in 2023.

Daniel Filby
Joe Bevis
Luke McFarlane
Michael Gebhart
Ryan Cole

Rising Star Projects

Undergraduate students graduating in 2024 or later, or college/school level students.

Dmitrii Kolchin
Robbe Mahieu


Search For A Star 2023
Games Programming Projects


Daniel Filby

Falmouth University

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Joe Bevis

Birmingham City University

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Luke McFarlane

Abertay University

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Michael Gebhart

Cologne Game Lab

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Ryan Cole

Falmouth University

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Rising Star
Games Programming Projects 2023


Dmitrii Kolchin

University of the Creative Arts

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Robbe Mahieu

Howest Digital Arts and Entertainment

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Article By Dan Dudley

Marketing + community + support person. Lots of behind-the-scenes bits here at Grads In Games & with Search For A Star. If you need help with anything, you can usually find me over on the Grads In Games Discord or email dan@gradsingames.com

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