This is our 12th showcase now, which is amazing.
And we've been running it
every year to bring together basically academia and industry.
What better way than to get the best students from our universities
and colleges in the network to be judged by our games companies in game republic?
The event so far has been great.
It's been really good getting to see everyone's projects, a lot of intense competition.
But yeah, it's been amazing. It's been really good.
Something like today
where students are able to showcase their games
and they are competing with other institutions in the region
is really good because they can sort of see
what the competition is like they can sort of judge
their own standard of work against what other people are doing.
Just having people from industry come in and be able to give them
feedback on their projects is really good.
We pride ourselves in being able to provide the industry
with good quality students.
We've got a really, really great heritage of games coming from University of Hull.
My work is mostly 2D art.
I honestly just love comic book art and games
that have a 2D aesthetic, and that's mostly where I get my
inspiration from.
My project
is a nature
simulation game where the player has the opportunity to place down
plants and animals and see how they interact in an environment together.
It's been an amazing year.
Like we had a lot of opportunities, we had a lot of talks from other people
in the industry coming in and telling us what it's like to work out there.
I always think don't underestimate the power of getting your name out there.
You really need to have an online
presence these days that people can find your portfolio easily and you need to be
talking to people face to face as much as you can.
I was speaking to some of the judges wandering around.
One of the comments that were made was I would hire that student in a heartbeat.
And that's really reassuring for us to hear, to know that we're
delivering the right stuff to our students,
to know that when they graduate, employers are going to be keen to hire them.