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

Cat Climber

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