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BBC News
2 days ago
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Three Oxfordshire teens among BAFTA game designer winners
A teenage winner at the 15th BAFTA Young Game Designers awards said it was "amazing to be able to see other people playing your game".Isabelle Taylor and Emily Sun, both 17 and both from Oxford, and Luke Rayfield, 18, from Oxfordshire, were selected from a pool of 52 finalists, winning three out of the event's five judging panel was made up of industry experts representing major British-based games to BBC Radio Oxford, Isabelle and Emily said they had now started working on their own studio. Mr Rayfield also said after their wins, Oxfordshire could turn into a new gaming hub in the winners, aged between 10 and 18, were announced in a digital ceremony hosted by actor, comedian and presenter Inel Ayoub, member of the judging panel, said he had been "genuinely humbled by the level of talent, creativity, and ambition these young creators brought". The competition is part of a year-round programme of public events and classroom workshops encouraging young people to understand how to create and Emily won the The Game Concept Award for Mikka Bouzu, whose game designer protagonist has to journey through three of her unfinished games to rediscover her lost creativity. They described it as being "made for players who struggle with the difficult transition from child to adult, and the burnout that it often brings". Isabelle said it was "just amazing to be able to see other people playing your game"."Normally, when you're testing your game, you get feedback through forms, through written things, but there's no feedback quite as real as seeing somebody's actual reactions as they play," she added they had already tried making a logo and plans for their planned studio, so "hopefully it will be able to go somewhere". Mr Rayfield's won The Game Making Award with Furniture Fu, which unites the skills of martial arts and interior decorating. He said it was "easy to learn and hard to master", with players beating demons while also tackling tasteful home design."There's such a wealth of good ideas out there and the weirder ones are often the best, I find," he winning games will be showcased at the Science Museum in London, the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, and the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bafta Games Awards shortlists teenagers from East of England
Two students from the East of England have been shortlisted for a prestigious BAFTA gaming Tachauer, from Essex, and Ruby, from Suffolk, were among 52 young people - aged between 10 to 18 - chosen by industry experts to take Young Game Designers (YGD) competition celebrates and encourages budding gamers to create, develop and present their ideas for winner's ceremony will be live-streamed on BAFTA's YouTube channel on Wednesday 18 June. Daniel, 14, was selected as a finalist in the Game Making category for 10 to 14 year olds for his astronomy game Planet Drop. The puzzle video game asks players to merge planets as they fall, much like retro game started playing video games two years ago and has managed to teach himself how to make games using tutorials on YouTube. He said Planet Drop took him about a month, adding: "It's easier to make games now than it ever has been before, with all the tools and everything. "Say you were trying to make a game in 1990, you haven't got any tutorials, whereas now there's just so much out there and so many people making content."Daniel would like a career in coding and said it would be amazing to be surrounded by games every day. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Ruby has been shortlisted in the Game Making by 15 to 18 year olds category for her game Through The explained players must follow the sound of music in darkness in order to complete a hoped her game would raise awareness of how people with no sight experienced gaming."If I was to win it would really mean a lot to me, because game making is one of my passions and it's one of the things I want to have a career in," she added. How do the awards work? The awards are split into two categories: the Game Concept Award, for a written idea for a new game, and the Game Making Award, for a game made using computer are two awards available for each category, for young people aged 10 to14 and another for those aged between 15 to winners are chosen by a jury of industry professionals who are looking for well thought-out game ideas and impressive use of Hebblethwaite, the head of games at BAFTA, said he had been "blown away" by the explained the UK had a "world-leading games industry" worth £7bn to the economy."There are brilliant companies up and down the country producing games that will sit on your consoles that people will be playing on a daily basis around the world." Follow East of England news on X, Instagram and Facebook: BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks, BBC Cambridgeshire, BBC Essex, BBC Norfolk, BBC Northamptonshire or BBC Suffolk.
BBC News
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bafta Young Game Designers: Meet the children up for a gaming award
Bafta have unveiled the talented finalists who have been selected for this year's Young Game Designers (YGD) event is in its 15th year and 52 young people - aged between 12 and 18 - have been chosen by top industry experts to take competition celebrates and encourages young people to create, develop and present their ideas for winners ceremony will be live-streamed on Bafta's YouTube channel, on Wednesday 18 June. How does the Young Game Designers award work? The awards are split into two categories - the Game Concept Award, for a written idea for a new game, and the Game Making Award, for a game made using computer are two awards available for each category, for young people aged 10 to 14 and another for those aged between 15 to winners are chosen by a jury of industry professionals who are looking for well thought-out game ideas and impressive use of coding. In the 10-14 Game Concept Category, 12-year-old Arabelle is among the game, titled Reef Revival, involves players helping a character - called Spongy - rediscover his home after a terrible needs to collect valuable items on the way to revive the coral that surrounds him. Arabelle says that she was inspired by the environment, and that she wanted to make the game "fun and exciting, while teaching the importance of protecting marine life". Meanwhile in the 10-14 Game Making Category, Daniel's space themed adventure is one of the shortlisted game called 'Planet Drop' is all about creating the ultimate drop planets to merge them into ever bigger celestial bodies, trying to create a supermassive planets combine to form new planets, and players need to make their drops in the right places to ensure they don't block winning games will be displayed at the Power Up exhibition at the Science Museum in London, the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester and at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford in June.
