Winners of the 2024 Tech Festival Student Game Jam (sponsored by MSI)
Earlier this month, 40+ of our top-performing students worked very hard on a one-of-a-kind design challenge. create a game that fits these themes: Cats / Kittens, Abstract and You can't stop
11 student groups from 6+ very diverse disciplines within the university (IT, Engineering, Music and Sound Design, Games Dev, Computer Science, etc) have competed for 6 unique award categories.
- Best Game Overall that Fits the Themes
- Most Innovative Game / Creative Use of Themes
- Best Visuals / Audio
- Most Intuitive / Pickup-and-Play Game
- Judges Favourite
- Most Promising
.. And the winners are:
Best Game Overall that Fits the Themes
Keyboard Catastrophe
by Samuel Coa, Stephen Roberts, Nathan Kyle Galang, Huynh Phuong Anh Nguyen, Harrison Clark
Most Innovative Game / Creative Use of Themes
Cyber Kitty
by Jansen Chandra
Best Visuals / Audio
Euclideo
by Sergio Sfarc Iglik, Ezekiel Jayden Paterno
Most Intuitive / Pickup-and-Play Game
Kitten Calamity
by Cookie Cherith, Evelyn Willow, Tom Howarth
Judges Favourite
Nightmare: Sweet Dreams Are Made of Cheese
Jessie Mancer
Most Promising
by Adivishva Mohan, Niclas Rogulski, Divij Seedat, Matthew Lapinski
Congratulations to you all !!
Media Gallery
To see a recap of day 1, day 2 and the wrap-up session, please click on the links below:
Special thanks:
Ivy, Tommy and Nick from MSI Australia
This student-oriented activity aimed at:
- Creating new spaces for our students to develop expertise in audio and game development in a non-traditional manner.
- Explore ways of integrating industry-relevant content into our curriculum.
- Closing the gap between our students and our industry partners.
- Showcasing the capability of our current students to industry partners and exposing them to industry related “problems”.
- Increasing the visibility of the UTS Games Studio and our discipline.
- Engaging with our current and past students.
- For more information on future events and the UTS Games Studio, visit us on http://gamesstudio.org