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UTS Student Games featured at the 2023 SXSW Gaming Festival

Earlier this month, 6 student groups from the Bachelor of Games Development at UTS were given the opportunity to showcase their games at the 2023 SXSW Gaming Festival

SXSW Sydney is a week-long event where the tech and innovation, games, music and screen industries converge with culture for unexpected discoveries. It brings together inspired thinkers, creators and innovators from across the world for a series of conferences, festivals, an expo and parties.

Echo Rush wins the Best Student Game Award at SXSW

EchoRush, a second-year student game from the Bachelor of Games Development at UTS, takes the first place at the SXSW Best Student Game competition.

SXSW Sydney is a week-long event where the tech and innovation, games, music and screen industries converge with culture for unexpected discoveries. It brings together inspired thinkers, creators and innovators from across the world for a series of conferences, festivals, an expo and parties.

This award celebrates the creativity, innovation, and dedication of the next generation of developers.

UTS Student Games at the POWERHOUSE LATE: GAMING

Last September, a group of UTS Game Development students had the opportunity to showcase their semester projects at the 2023 POWERHOSE LATE: GAMING event.

This event is aimed at bringing together the games community as well as celebrating the breadth of Australian game innovation through live performances, local game developer showcases, tabletop arenas and immersive game experiences.

The participating games were:

Industry Panel: Your Career on Games Development | UTS Tech Fest 2023

As a part of Tech Fest, UTS Careers hosted four 'Your career in' industry panel events focused on software engineering, robotics, AI and games development. We had 23 industry professionals, the majority of whom were also UTS Alumni, participate as panellists and share their stories, experience and advice with our students.

Thanks Joshua, Claudia, Ailin, Aaron, Harry, Sebastian, George, Jake, for taking time off from work to come to UTS and share their journeys with our aspiring Game Dev students.

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