It’s almost time for the Search for a Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star Finals and Conference Day 2018!

This year we're being hosted by Sheffield Hallam University, as Grads in Games presents another jam-packed day of talks and informal sessions with games industry professionals from disciplines including:

• Animation
• VFX
• 3D Art
• Programming
• Recruitment

The event is completely FREE to all students, lecturers & academics involved in games-related courses.

Thanks to event sponsors Playtonic & Edge Case Games, Finals Day attendees will receive Steam Codes for platformer Yooka-Laylee and a Starter Pack for space combat title Fractured Space.

The conference day will include a series of speaker presentations with Q&A sessions, industry and academic roundtable discussions, informal networking sessions, plus exhibitors on hand to chat to you about the industry and your career from studios including:

• Sumo Digital
• d3t
• Red Kite Games
• And more!

Conference Speakers include:

Claire Boissiere - Conspexit Games
Claire is an industry veteran, a producer & production manager for award-winning and BAFTA nominated titles including the original LittleBigPlanet, and also led Sony's creative collaboration with J K Rowling.

Jake Missing - nDreams
Jake is the 2017 Search For A Star Environment Art winner & a Sheffield Hallam University Masters graduate, now working in the games industry as a Junior 3D Artist.

Ethan Bruins - Unity
Ethan is a Technical Evangelist intern at Unity & student game developer, as well as being a Sumo Digital Rising Star entrant from Southampton Solent University.

Philip & Andrew Oliver - Rebellion
The Oliver Twins have been an inspirational feature of the UK games industry for over 30 years, with their names on hundreds of titles. They're now on a brand new adventure with Rebellion.

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Our Search for a Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star finalists will be put through their final interview, assessed by our panel of industry veterans, and all hoping to be announced as this year’s winners. We would love to see all of the competition entrants there along with all your coursemates. Come along and cheer for your coursemates and peers!

This event is one not to miss!

We are thrilled to be able to offer this event once again, but we couldn’t do it without the help of our fantastic partners Sumo Digital, Boss Alien, nDreams, d3t & Red Kite Games. For more info on any of these studios, you can check out their profiles at www.gradsingames.com.

If you represent a studio or publisher and would like to attend this event, please email rachel@aswift.com!