Ones To Watch 2024
Search For A Star and Rising Star have come to a close for 2024, and our top achieving students and graduates have been announced – in case you missed it, you can check out all of our winners and finalists here :
Search For A Star and Rising Star 2024 Winners
All Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024 Finalists
In addition to all of the exceptional winners and finalists listed above, there were also many people across all categories that produced excellent projects and showcased a range of high-level skills that we’d like to recognise.
Our ‘One To Watch’ award winners have all shown the skills and potential to become excellent game developers, and although they didn’t quite make it into our final few, we’re confident that they’re also following the path into an amazing future using the skills they’ve shown!
A huge thanks to our assessment team for reviewing all of the submitted projects, and for highlighting the skills and talents of these many students!
And as ever, a huge thanks to all of our partners, supporters and contributors from across the games industry – without them we wouldn’t be able to run activities like Search For A Star. Thank you especially to our partner studios d3t and Coconut Lizard, 10:10 Games, Red Kite Games, Furious Bee & Plus Music.
Search For A Star : Final year uni and masters students, graduating in 2024
Rising Star : Undergraduate or college level, graduating in 2025 or later
Character Art
Ones To Watch 2024
Search For A Star
Arnas Klimasauskas
University for the Creative Arts
Candice Dennis
University for the Creative Arts
Harvey Foster
University of Gloucester
Isabel Middleton
Falmouth University
Jordan Bennett
Leeds Beckett University
Kalyan Thupili
University of Hertfordshire
Kuba Krysztofiak
University of Hull
Le Thanh Van Nguyen
Middlesex University London
Martha Horsfield
University of the Arts
Monika Rak
Staffordshire University
Paula Tari Ruiz
University for the Creative Arts
Theodor Obreja
University of Hertfordshire
Tyler Hewitt
University of Huddersfield
Amelia (Yujiujiu) Yang
Middlesex University London
Rising Star
Darnell Brown
University of South Wales
Faith Quick
Priestley College
Giada Lupinetti
Teesside University
Environment Art
Ones To Watch 2024
Search For A Star
Alexandra Caisin
Middlesex University London
Amy Flanagan
University of Central Lancashire
Ben Rodgers
University of South Wales
Bob Griffiths
Escape Studios
Gabriele Mikutyte
Falmouth University
Jack Marston
University of Huddersfield
Malou De Paepe
Howest DAE
Marcel Dumas
Middlesex University London
Olivia Gunn
Falmouth University
Rita Pessoa
Middlesex University London
Sarah Hellawell
University of Huddersfield
Teodora Manolova
University of Huddersfield
Tom Hickling
University of Huddersfield
Tom Lee
University of Huddersfield
Rising Star
Claire Peacey
University of Derby
Dawid Sikora
University of Portsmouth
Edward Small
Warrington & Vale Royal College
Game Design
Ones To Watch 2024
Effie Sampson
University of Central Lancashire
Jack Burrup
Sheffield Hallam University
Jack Mulford
Falmouth University
Jaime Williams
Abertay University
Julia Mascetti
Goldsmiths
Luke West
Abertay University
Natalie Capes
Appalachian State University
Nathan Cooper
University of Hull
Ryan Chaney
University of Central Lancashire
Susie Connaughton
Futureworks
Rising Star
Alex Barnes
Sheffield Hallam University
Jiří Vojtěch
Breda University of Applied Sciences
Meng Zhang
University of Essex
Games Animation
One To Watch 2024
Wimula Kanchela
University of Huddersfield
Congratulations to all of our One To Watch award winners, and to all of this year’s achievements across Search For A Star and Rising Star 💚
