It’s official, Dare to be Digital is a proper ‘thing’ now. Students, developers, indies all around the world are now looking at the competition as a huge opportunity to gaming valuable experience, get into the games industry and start building a portfolio. Who knows we may even see some of the games hitting the market at some point!
The 2012 competition had over 100 entries (108 to be specific) from 70 universities, spanning 13 countries around the world including China, Denmark, England, Finland, Holland, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Romania, Scotland, Spain and Sweden.
Dare 2012 will welcome teams from Finland, China and India, thanks to Scottish government support amounting to £85,700.
The international teams taking part in Dare to be Digital 2012 are:
- Ideer, from the Communication University of China (iPhone game)
- LazzyBrains, from India’s Image College of Arts Animation and Technology (iPad game)
- Kind of a Big Deal, from Finland’s Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (Windows Phone 7 game)
Fiona Hyslop, the culture secretary is quoted as saying…
Dates! Dare to be Digital 2012 runs from June 11th at the University of Abertay, Dundee. The climax of the whole thing, the ProtoPlay event takes place across much of Dundee city centre on August 10-12th, with all of the games being showcased, an indie games event taking place and all manner of exciting, lovely and delightful things happening to help promote, showcase and support new talent in games.