Sheffield Hallam University Game’s students shining at the Game Republic competition
Our games students have again entered the annual regional games competition Game Republic Student Showcase
, where they competed against 10 other Universities and a total of 80 projects submitted from these, and once again triumphed.
BSc(Hons) Computer Science for Games students from the Subject Group Games and Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computing and BA(Hons) Games Design students from the Department of Media Arts and Communications took part and presented their work to judges from the games industry.
They were supported by Steel Minions in finalising their project for the competition and getting the hardware.
The showreel can be seen here and you will all appreciate how fierce the competition was this year!
We had a fantastic result, with students winning or coming second place in multiple categories:
Award for Game Audio – 2nd Place – Judged by Distinctive Games
Junkyard Pool (Josh Busby, Adam Thomson, Damien Bruce)
Award for Game Technology – 2nd Place – Judged by Red Kite Games
Zool Vulkan Port (Olaf Reimer, Dom Mccollum, Peter Holmes, James Smith)
Award for Game Technology – 1st Place – Judged by Red Kite Games
Labyrinth (Chae Taylor, Casey Kenny, Josh Long)
Award for Best Team – 1st Place – Judged by Rockstar Leeds
Labyrinth (Chae Taylor, Casey Kenny, Josh Long)
They were accompanied by Andrew Hamilton, a member of staff from the Department of Computing and Luke Melville from Steel Minions and also an academic at the Department of Computing.
We are all delighted for them – it demonstrates and acknowledges their skill and dedication.