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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.

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.

Winners of the Tech Fest Student Games Showcase (sponsored by MSI)

Last June, the UTS Games Studio had the opportunity to participate in the second iteration of the UTS Tech Festival, a 2-week event that aims at bringing together current students, academics, industry partners and like-minded tech enthusiasts to take part in an array of activities including hackathons, workshops, industry panels and student showcases.

This year, we joined forces with our student societies (Playmakers and the Gamers Guild) and our industry partners (from Dolby, NVIDIA) to create a unique program full of exciting and diverse game events.

Winners of the Tech Fest Student Game Jam (sponsored by Dolby)

Last June, 60+ of our top-performing students worked very hard on a one-of-a-kind design challenge: create a game where player-player communication is the main mechanic. All in only 48 hours.
To accomplish this, our industry partners from Dolby Laboratories taught us the most advanced features in their latest Dolby.io plugin for Unity.
10 student groups from 6+ very diverse disciplines within the university (IT, Engineering, Music and Sound Design, Games Dev, Computer Science, etc) have competed for 4 unique award categories. 

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