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Search For A Star Code Finalists Announced!

March 22, 2017September 19, 2017 0
Posted in Games, News, Search For A StarCode Search For A Star

Search For A Star Code Finalists Announced!

March 22, 2017September 19, 2017 Joey Relton 0

Today we’re happy to announce our Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Code finalists!

This year was the biggest yet, with 405 programmers completing our first round C++ Hacker Rank test. Our fantastic round two judges have spent their time playing some amazing games and delving deep into our students’ code to ultimately choose five Search For A Star and five Rising Star students to move onto the Finals Day interviews.

There’s certainly a range of games in this year’s Search for a Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Code finals. All students were given the same base framework game to work from, yet the results couldn’t be any more different! We’ve got everything from sheepherder games to gladiator style fighters and sci-fi arcade games!

We’re proud to present this year’s finalists along with their creations – all of which are free to download and play!

Search For A Star 2017 Code Finalists

James Hutchison – University of Central Lancashire

Bloxz 

 

Kyle Hobdey – University of Central Lancashire

Star Wrangler

 

Nick Chilvers – University of Huddersfield

Galactic Defence

 

Robert Chisholm – University of Hull

Epic Quest 

 

Witek Gawłowski – Goldsmiths University

Go Sheeps 

 

Sumo Digital Rising Star 2017 Code Finalists

Alfred Norton – University of York

CAPSULE OF VENGEANCE: A bitter pill for cuboids 

 

Gualtiero Vercellotti – the University of the West of England

Bomb Repulsion 

 

Huw Talliss – University of York

Intersect 

 

Jakub Janas – Aberystwyth University

Space Adventure 

 

Neil Osbaldeston – University of Central Lancashire

Cube Invasion 

Article By Joey Relton

A Hearthstone fanatic who also happens to be the Content Manager for Grads in Games. Continuously working to help grads break into the games industry and perfect my chocolate raspberry brownie recipe. @JoeyRelton

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