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 As with the other categories, this years work has been of a very high […]
Three excellent webinars last week with our Get In The Game careers events, spanning games art and programming! This week Dan, Andy & Rebecca from the Grads In Games team covered just what it takes for students to get their career started in the games industry, and were joined by guest speakers Greg Booker, Game […]
Three excellent webinars this week with our Get In The Game careers events, spanning games art, programming, animation and VFX! This week Andy & Rebecca from the Grads In Games team covered just what it takes for students to get their career started in the games industry, and were joined by guest speakers Louise Andrew, […]
Two more webinars last week with our Get In The Game careers events, both with a huge number of artists and coders joining us & setting a new record for Q&A sessions! This week Andy & Dan from the Grads In Games team covered just what it takes for students to get their career started […]
Only two webinars this week with our Get In The Game careers events but still just as busy. We’ve now run seven in total over the past three weeks, speaking to nearly 2000 students! This week Becky & Andy from the Grads In Games team covered just what it takes for students to get their […]
For our tenth anniversary we’re taking the final stage of Search for a Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star online! We’ll be announcing the winners of SFASX live on Monday 27th April at 6pm (17:00 UTC) in a livestreamed event. As well as the winners, we will highlight this year’s participants, projects and game studio […]
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 […]
So, you’re at University studying 3D Character or Environment Art, VFX, Animation, Programming, Comp Sci or Game Design, right? You might not be thinking about it just yet, especially not in your first or second year, but you’re going to be hoping to get your first role in the games industry pretty soon aren’t you? You’ll […]
The Search for a Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 challenges have come to a close. 2018 has been one of the best so far, with such a high calibre of students that even getting to the finals was a close challenge, let alone our judges having to make a final decision on the […]
One of the most important features of Search for a Star is the support of games professionals. Their expert knowledge informs the challenges; their feedback on the submissions makes a real difference to entrants, and their years of industry experience make them the perfect judges to conduct the interviews at Finals Day. You have already […]