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📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight concludes with: People’s Choice Award Winner! Sponsored by the Gamebridge Committee and judged by the attendees themselves, this year the award, along with £100 of Steam vouchers, went to Merlin’s Apprentice by Owen Monaghan, of Anglia Ruskin University. In Merlin’s Apprentice, you take on the role of an aspiring wizard who has accidentally transformed the titular mage into a wheel of cheese. You must make the antidote quickly before he is found by the castle cooks and used for the kings supper! It can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/e_2PZzYm

📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight continues with: Best Team Project Winner! Sponsored and judged by Jagex, this year the award, along with £1,000 in prize money, went to Seeing Re(a)d by Ilena P., and Wen Jin (Dan), of the National Film & Television School. In Seeing Re(a)d, you take on the role of a librarian, faced with a group of noisy, inconsiderate patrons. In a moment of pure rage, you sling  'The Life Changing Miracle of Shushing' and discover you possess an extraordinary ability - the ability to imbue people with attributes that is the subject of the book you hit them with. It can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/e5-4aXBH You can follow Dan and Ilena here: Dan: https://lnkd.in/ebsW9tDv & https://x.com/daniel_jin21 Ilena: https://lnkd.in/e2hEQkXv & https://x.com/martianwho

📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight continues with: Beat Team Project Runner Up! Sponsored and judged by Jagex, this year the award, along with £400 in prize money, went to Petal by Charlie Seymour, Garrik Miller, Ethan Nelson, Ryan Eaton, Josiah Hendy, Thomas Rowland, Billy Marsh, Sedat Savas, Stefanie Tischner, Zack Landsman, and Alice Ward, of Falmouth University. Petal is a 2D co-op puzzle platformer following a pair of newly evolved plant beings, exploring an overgrown seed vault lost to time. It can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/eWW-JntR You can follow the team’s work here: https://lnkd.in/erBKNKV7

📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight continues with: 2D Art Excellence Winner! Sponsored and judged by Mooncolony & Lunar Academy, this year the award, along with £500 in prize money, and a Lunar Academy mentorship place, went to Spirit Bound by Kian Condon of Nottingham Trent University. Spirit Bound is a collection of concept and character art for a world powered by spiritual energy, with spirits and humans living alongside each other. It can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/ePmrX95G More of Kian’s work can be found here: https://lnkd.in/e4DG7gYq

📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight continues with: 2D Art Excellence Runner Up! Sponsored and judged by Mooncolony & Lunar Academy, this year the award, along with £250 in prize money, and a Lunar Academy on-demand art course, went to The Verdant Cadaver by Kuba Krysztofiak, of the University of Hull. The Verdant Cadaver is a unique enemy/boss design for a hypothetical Soulslike game project. It can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/eek3GCKH Kuba can also be found here: https://x.com/kubaaa_k

Thank you Frontier Developments. We really appreciate your sponsorship of the Gamebridge Student Games Festival for the second year in a row. Your team was so generous with their time on the day, and we've heard nothing but great things about their interactions with the students and graduates who attended. We couldn't run the event without the support of game companies such as yours! #gamebridge #students

📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight continues with: Design Excellence Winner! Sponsored and judged by Frontier Developments, this year the award, along with £500 in prize money, went to Rope Robot by Scott Ewing, of The University of the West of Scotland. Rope Robot is a third person puzzle / platformer with realistic rope physics. Master the art of rope manipulation as you swing, climb, and solve intricate puzzles to progress through each level. It can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/dN2M_x9V

📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight continues with: Design Excellence Runner Up! Sponsored and judged by Frontier Developments, this year the award, along with £250 in prize money, went to Prison of Husks by Tammy Morley, of Bath Spa University. Like a crossbreed between Sekiro and Demon's Souls, in Prison of Husks you assume the form of a doll and make your way out of a decrepit prison. Emancipation is near, but perhaps you were seeking something else entirely? It can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/ecvNnP33 Tammy can also be found here: https://x.com/Hex0sphere

📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight continues with: 3D Environment Art Winner! Sponsored and judged by Airship Interactive, this year the award, along with £500 in prize money, went to Eternity Gateway by Maria Antonia Georgescu, of the University for the Creative Arts. Eternity Gateway was recognised for the amazing visuals and striking art style, excellent foliage, and for the behind the scenes concepting work. It can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/dQ5KFigq More of Maria’s work can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dqWhUWs2

📣 Award Spotlight! 🕹️ The Gamebridge 2024 Winners Spotlight continues with: 3D Environment Art Runner Up! Sponsored and judged by Airship Interactive, this year the award, along with £250 in prize money, went to Tree House Environment by Rita Pessoa, of Middlesex University. Demonstrating some wonderful foliage skills, with their really lovely trees and plants, and clever use of the technical elements to create the scene, such as runtime virtual textures and splines; Tree House Environment can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/d3StxgcB