SFAS 2024 | The Finalists
We’ve had another fantastic year for Search For A Star, with over 200 games projects created by students from across the UK and Europe. We’re now reaching the final stage of the challenges, and are pleased to reveal our finalists for 2024!
These students have shown high level skills and created exceptional projects over the course of a few weeks, across programming, art, design, animation and VFX. Many of the students in this list will undoubtedly become future stars of the games industry and we’re eager to help them on that journey.
In April, they will all be invited to interview with a panel of games industry professionals, discussing their projects, their skills and their ambitions for the future, before our judges will decide on the winners of this year’s Search For A Star & Rising Star.
We’d like to extend a massive thanks to everyone who has helped these students get this far, including our partners at Aardvark Swift, d3t and Coconut Lizard, Red Kite Games, 10:10 Games, Furious Bee, PlusMusic and Steel City Interactive. We’d also like to thank our supporters at XR Games, the National Videogame Museum and Sheffield Hallam University, and our prize providers Adobe.
Our development teams have been invaluable in the process, and we thank our programming challenge developer Lizi Attwood of Furious Bee, and our Design challenge developer 10:10 Games. We also couldn’t have done it without the hard work of our assessment team in reviewing all of the projects received.
Search For A Star 2024
Final year & post-graduate Masters students, graduating in 2024.
Rising Star 2024
Undergraduate students graduating in 2025 or later, or college/school level students.
The Finalists
Games Programming Finalists 2024
Alexander Smith
Glasgow Caledonian University
Henry Ha
The Developer Academy
Maggie Amaro
Instituto Superior Tecnico – ULisboa
Oluwapelumi Ayeni
Solent University
Tanapat Somrid
Abertay University
Ash Henry
Liverpool John Moores University
Dmitrii Kolchin
University for the Creative Arts
Finlay Laidlaw
Abertay University
Jade Friend
Ravensbourne University
Stuart Heath
Coventry University
Games VFX Finalists 2024
Alex Konosonoks
Staffordshire University
Faith Hamill
Falmouth University
Joseph Stanley
Futureworks
Mishel Soghoyan
University of Hertfordshire
Rohith Guruvayurappan
Anglia Ruskin University
Evan Goddard
Futureworks
Games Animation Finalists 2024
Brendon Chadwick
Falmouth University
Corin Astles
University of the West of England
Leona Thompson
Teesside University
Martin Karazarwe
Middlesex University London
Philip Do
Middlesex University London
Adam Fakla
Futuregames
James Picton
Teesside University
Maja Bogdanienko
Breda University of Applied Sciences
Environment Art Finalists 2024
In partnership with d3t and Coconut Lizard
Ben Moylan
Escape Studios
Berenika Zemanek
Abertay University
Elvinas Mikulin
Escape Studios
Jesse de Groot
Howest DAE
Maria Georgescu
University for the Creative Arts
Asher Maddocks
University of South Wales
Cameron Margetts
University of South Wales
Ieva Palubeckyte
Middlesex University London
Jacob Foster
University of South Wales
Ruta Katkevica
Howest DAE
Character Art Finalists 2024
Ben Clancy
University for the Creative Arts
Charlie Shrehorn-Middleton
University of Hertfordshire
Christiane Schaper
Howest DAE
Emily Marshall
Futureworks
Tuomas Paul
Howest DAE
Christopher Hotson
Solent University
Jean Carlo Jurado Hernandez
Middlesex University London
Joseph Tagsa
University of Hertfordshire
Samuel Wood
Falmouth University
Zahra Tilling
University of Hertfordshire
Game Design Finalists 2024
Charles Django Cornell
Abertay University
Ian O’Flaherty
Brunel University London
James Percival
Falmouth University
Scott Cadman
Sheffield Hallam University
Tom Colebrooke
University of Oxford
Harvey Jones
University of Huddersfield
Jonathon Mayes
AP Hogeschool
Olesya Panyushkina
Manchester Metropolitan University
Oliver Scott
Staffordshire University
Robert Turner
Falmouth University
Congratulations to everyone who has made it to the final stage of the challenge. Reaching this point is an exceptional achievement and one to be very proud of!
