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Staffordshire breaks record with 100 entrants in Search For A Star 2021, and still 3 weeks left to enter!

Staffordshire breaks record with 100 entrants in Search For A Star 2021, and still 3 weeks left to enter!

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

With three weeks still to register, over 700 students from over 100 universities across the UK, Europe & worldwide have already signed up for the Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star challenges.

Posted in Articles, News, Search For A StarAbertay University Birmingham City University De Montfort University Falmouth University SFAS21 Sheffield Hallam University Staffordshire University UCLAN University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield University of South Wales
Chris Woods - Search For A Star Winner Games Animation

Search For A Star Games Animation Winner 2020 : Chris Woods

May 21, 2020May 29, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

Congratulations to Chris Woods from SAE Institute, our Games Animation winner of Search For A Star 2020! Chris reached the finals after creating a great animation sequence for the project stage, impressing our Search For A Star Animation assessors and topping both the Creative and Technical scoreboard! Chris discussed his technical skills, animation knowledge and […]

Posted in Games, Games Animation, News, Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersChris Woods Games Animation Search For A Star SFASX UCLAN
Justyna Kwiatkowska- Sumo Digital Rising Star Winner Games Programming

Sumo Digital Rising Star Games Programming Winner 2020 : Justyna Kwiatkowska

May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

Congratulations to Justyna Kwiatkowska from the University of Central Lancashire, our Games Programming winner of Sumo Digital Rising Star 2020! Justyna topped the project stage with her excellent game development project, The Catgeon, earning her a place in the finals. Our assessors were really impressed by Justyna’s project, ranking it first overall, ahead of even […]

Posted in Games, News, Programming, Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersGames Programming Justyna Kwiatkowska Rising Star SFASX UCLAN
SFASX Leading Games Universities 2020

SFASX Leading Games Universities 2020

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

A key aspect of our Search For A Star challenges is to help improve the links between the games industry and education. We work closely with leading studios to create the challenges, based directly on the skills and knowledge those studios are looking for when hiring graduate and junior developers. By incorporating studio expectations & […]

Posted in News, Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersDe Montfort University Escape Studios Falmouth University Howest DAE SAE Institute Staffordshire University Teesside University UCLAN University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield University of Portsmouth
81 universities across the UK & Europe are signed up for Search For A Star 2019, but there's still time to register!

81 universities across the UK & Europe are signed up for Search For A Star 2019, but there’s still time to register!

December 11, 2018 Dan Dudley 0

See which universities are topping the list of entrants, with just one week left to register students for the 2019 game dev challenges!

Posted in News, Search For A StarGame Development Games University Howest DAE SFAS19 Sheffield Hallam University Staffordshire University UCLAN University of Central Lancashire University of Huddersfield
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 : The Winners

Search for a Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 – The Winners!

April 10, 2018 Alex 0

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 […]

Posted in Art, Articles, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersAdelaide Coldham Boss Alien Cloud Imperium Futureworks Get In The Game Grads In Games Howest Jacob Beckley Jimmy Ghysens Joe Bamber John Green Kial Oliver-Gibson nDreams Newcastle University NHTV Programming Rising Star Robert Arnold Saif Munawar Search For A Star SFAS18 Shannon Symonds Sheffield Hallam University Southampton Solent Sumo Digital UCLAN Unity University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Finalists 2018

The Finalists 2018 – Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Code

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Alex 0

You have already been able to read about some of the amazing video games veterans who have helped assess this year’s submissions. Today, we will introduce our coding finalists. This is the nitty-gritty of games development, turning matrix style lines of alpha-numeric encryption into games you can play. These finalists have been assessed, not only on […]

Posted in Games, News, Search For A StarGames games development Graduates Newcastle University Search For A Star SFAS18 Sheffield Hallam University Southampton Solent University Sumo Digital UCL UCLAN
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Finalists 2018

Search for a Star 2018 Meet the Finalists – VFX

April 2, 2018April 4, 2018 Alex 0

Meet the Finalists – VFX It has been almost 6 months since this year’s Search for a Star started accepting its 1st Round of submissions back in September last year. Now, with Final’s Day almost upon us, we have whittled things down to a handful of amazing finalists. You have already been able to read […]

Posted in Games VFX, Search For A Starfinalists games development Graduates Rising Star Search For A Star SFAS18 UCLAN University of Huddersfield
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Finalists 2018

Search for a Star 2018 – Finalists Confirmed

March 22, 2018March 29, 2018 Alex 0

Search for a Star 2018 – Finalists Confirmed With Final’s Day a little over 2 weeks away we are proud to announce the full list of this year’s lucky challenge Finalists. With months of hard work behind them, these lucky few will progress to Final’s Day, at Sheffield Hallam University. There they will face an expert […]

Posted in Art, Articles, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Search For A StarAbertay University Art ArtStation Bradford University Brunel University finalists Futureworks Media School Graduates Howest Newcastle University NHTV Programming Ravensbourne Rising Star Search For A Star SFAS Finalists SFAS18 Sheffield Hallam University Southampton Solent University Sumo Digital UCL UCLAN University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield UWE
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Meet James: A Sumo Digital Rising Star Winner

March 2, 2018March 2, 2018 Alex 0

While the assessors pour over submissions, write feedback and help put together shortlists we thought we would take a moment look back at one of our recent Rising Star winners. James Hutchison won an interview for the Sumo Digital Rising Star code placement last year, and landed the role! He has been working hard as part […]

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