Students flock to games fest at Cambridge Regional College

Nearly 100 young game-makers descended on Cambridge Regional College for a three-day FXP Festival – competing to be the best in front of a panel of experts.

Teams of pupils from the region’s schools took part in the Festival, launched by CRC’s award-winning head of games development Michael Warburton, with awards for game concept and development using the theme ‘super’.

The college, which has won international acclaim for its games development courses and pioneering student-led games company Rizing Games, hosted a successful FXP pilot last year for 23 school and college teams.

This year the theme was ‘super’ – and the students responded with a fantastic range of games  The prize for the Level 1 Development competition was awarded to There is no Spoon from Parkside Community College, while first place in the Level 2 Development competition was won by Still Nina Tucker from Suffolk New College.

Mark Ogilvie of games firm Jagex, one of the event sponsors, said: “Teams from the festival gave amazing interpretation to the theme of ‘super’. We saw games which included a supernova, superheroes, superstition, even soup.

“Several of the games that were developed or storyboarded across the weekend are games that publishers would genuinely pick up.”

Michael Warburton said the competitors had shown a very high degree of skill.

“The level of skill I have seen this weekend has been shockingly good. It goes to show the sheer talent that the learners in the region have,” he said. “This also shows a level of commitment from teachers and parents in encouraging the students, as well as the learners’ love of the industry.”

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