Games Britannia meets the National Videogame Museum for our final day of Tech Week 2022

The Games Britannia Festival brings creativity and technology together, providing schools and colleges with workshops and activities led by games industry experts and academics.

Programming is just one facet of the Games Britannia festival, which incorporates areas of the curriculum as diverse as English, Maths, Computing, Music and Art – all through the exciting field of video game development.

The core of the festival focuses on providing free hands-on workshops aimed at school children and is open to local and national schools including home-schooled pupils. The festival also includes speaker events open to the general public, as well as activities specifically targeted at higher education students wanting to break into the games industry.

In 2022, our festival happened in collaboration with the National Video Games Museum in Sheffield.

BSc and MComp Computer Science for Games students from 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 school children.​​​​​​​

They were accompanied by Andrew Hamilton and Márjory Da Costa-Abreu, both members of staff from the Department of Computing.