Enterprise Placement Year students in the running for £25,000
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:31:00 GMT
Ocean Spark, an independent video game studio set up by four Huddersfield University Games students, are in the final round of the UK Games Fund’s Tranzfuser development programme. The students, who are currently undertaking the Enterprise Placement Year as part of their third year of study, are in with the chance to win £25,000 to help them complete their game, ‘Tetra’. ‘Tetra’ is a strategic, role-playing tower defence game in which the player controls four elemental guardians with distinct abilities.
The Tranzfuser programme is the first UK-wide talent programme that has been linked directly to a prototype fund. Run by UK Games Talent, the main goal of the programme is to provide an annual platform for top talent in the UK to gain enterprise or employment recognition. It also provides the chance for teams to obtain grants and interact with other early stage development companies.
Members of Ocean Spark, Ellie Brown and Helen Andrzejowska, have also got through to the second stage of Sumo Digital’s Rising Star competition. The yearly event involves entrants creating their own games, art assets, animations or visual effects. Prize packages include valuable access to established games companies with one winner being guaranteed an internship interview with industry-leader, Sumo Digital.
In addition the success of Ocean Spark, fellow Enterprise Placement Year team, Torchbearer Interactive, has also recently been awarded £15,000 by Creative England to complete their game, ‘Cloud Cover’. The trio of Games Programming students work both individually and as a team on their own projects but also contract out to other Enterprise Placement Year teams.
Congratulations go to all our Enterprise Placement Year teams on their successes.
To find out more about the Tetra, please visit http://playtetra.com/.
To support Ocean Spark in their continuation of Tetra, please click here: http://kickstarter.com/projects/oceansparkstudios/tetra-elemental-awakening-third-person-wave-defens
