Be first to play BAFTA video games
23 March 2009
Work from LJMU's Screen School displayed alongside BAFTA award-winning and nominated video games.
Everyone is invited to come along to a one-day event at FACT to be among the first to play BAFTA award-winning and nominated video games and find out more about LJMU’s Screen School.
As sponsor of Dare to be Digital, the UK's premier video games competition for students, LJMU is participating in the event on Monday, 30 March, and will be displaying work by the Screen School’s talented students.
Anyone who goes along to the all day event at The Box will also have the opportunity to play the three games created by last year's Dare to be Digital finalists, including the game BoroToro, which won BAFTA's 'Ones to Watch' new talent award at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards.
As part of the day, LJMU teams who have got together to take part in this year's Dare to be Digital competition will be pitching their ideas in a panel of judges, and will find out if they will be selected to develop a prototype videogame. If successful, over a period of ten weeks they will receive daily support and weekly training sessions from industry experts.
At the end of the ten weeks, participating teams' prototype games are displayed at a special talent showcasing event in Edinburgh, Dare ProtoPlay, alongside the Edinburgh Interactive Festival in August. The general public as well as industry experts get to play and vote for the games. Prizes are then awarded to the winning teams at a special awards ceremony and later in the year the winning teams attend the BAFTA Video Games Awards to compete for the coveted "Ones to Watch Award."
To find out more about the competition, see http://www.daretobedigital.com/
