Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 24th Jan, 2011 6:37 pm
The international games development competition for students, Dare to be Digital, is now open to entrants for 2011. This is a yearly competition held at the University of Abertay in Scotland. Teams of students from around the world are selected and compete head-to-head for one of three prizes worth £2,500. Who’s eligible? You need to be a team of 5* [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 6th Jul, 2010 5:45 pm
Are you aged 12 to 16 and thinking about video games? Dare ProtoPlay are running a video games studio workshop from 13th to 15th August. It will take you through how a video game is created, what technology is involved and let you create your own characters, as well as a small “piece of animated game” o.O Places are still [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 9th Feb, 2009 10:40 am
Games development competition Dare To Be Digital (previously covered here) is now open to applicants. This is the 10th year of Dare and to celebrate, they’re throwing their metaphorical doors open to the community. There are two formats for the competition this year, Do and Dream. Do is the traditional development competition. Teams of 5 students or recent graduates are [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 24th Jul, 2007 2:21 pm
As mentioned previously, the games developed in 2007′s Dare to Be Digital competition will be showcased at this year’s Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival. The festival this year will run from 13th to 14th August. The programme has now been announced, with thirteen events spread across two days. And that’s not even counting Dare Protoplay. Here are the bits I found [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 26th Apr, 2007 12:36 pm
Last year I wrote a couple of posts on the Dundee-based games development competition for students, Dare To Be Digital. This year’s contest is now accepting entries from London and the South East of England. For those living elsewhere, I do apologise for not covering this earlier. The Irish and Scottish application deadline was apparently 11th April 2007. There doesn’t [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 19th Aug, 2006 7:53 am
The results for this year’s Dare To Be Digital competition (as previously covered here) were announced last night. The big money prizes were… Most Commercial Potential – Artisan with Metalheads (Go Tommy!) Greatest Innovation and Creativity – Log2 n with Flux Best Use of Technology for Product Delivery – Rule of Thumb with Gal Ex: Spacial Delivery Best use of [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 10th Aug, 2006 11:12 am
It’s close to the end of Dare to be Digital, the ten-week-long international game-development competition for university students. Competitors have been working steadily on their designs for the past nine weeks and if the developer diaries are anything to go by, they’re under some serious pressure. Twelve-hour days, weekend working – sounds like they’re doing a great job of modelling [...]
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