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Dare 09 video games now available to download online - News
By Paguba Florin
Published: October 13, 2009
Print The video games produced for this year's Dare to be Digital, the UK's
premier computer games design competition hosted by the University of
Abertay Dundee, are now available to download free online. This,
of course, includes the three winning games Colour Coded by Pixel
Pirates, Quick As Thieves by Gentlemen of Fortune and Shrunk by The
Butterflyers which are now the sole finalists for the BAFTA Ones to
Watch Award, as announced at Dare ProtoPlay at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe.
There are a variety of platform and arcade style games, each with it's own dazzling graphics, inventive characters and unique settings including: alien planets, troublesome farmlands, a lost bee colony, 3D puzzles, and a die hard rock fan on a mission to rescue the world from pop music. Games created during previous Dare to be Digital competitions have gone on to be developed for the commercial market such as Coda Chain and 'VegeMe' for the i-phone which was previewed at Dare ProtoPlay this year.
14 teams of five students spent 10 weeks at the Dare Development Hothouse' at the University of Abertay Dundee where they had access to top of the range equipment provided by an illustrious list of sponsors in addition to receiving mentoring from some of the top names in the computer games industry. This year the teams came from as far as China, India, Norway and Canada, as well as the UK and Ireland. As well as being invited to provide game ideas during the start of the competition and being invited to judge the games at Dare ProtoPlay, members of the public were able to follow the teams' progress online via blog entries and video diaries.
There are a variety of platform and arcade style games, each with it's own dazzling graphics, inventive characters and unique settings including: alien planets, troublesome farmlands, a lost bee colony, 3D puzzles, and a die hard rock fan on a mission to rescue the world from pop music. Games created during previous Dare to be Digital competitions have gone on to be developed for the commercial market such as Coda Chain and 'VegeMe' for the i-phone which was previewed at Dare ProtoPlay this year.
14 teams of five students spent 10 weeks at the Dare Development Hothouse' at the University of Abertay Dundee where they had access to top of the range equipment provided by an illustrious list of sponsors in addition to receiving mentoring from some of the top names in the computer games industry. This year the teams came from as far as China, India, Norway and Canada, as well as the UK and Ireland. As well as being invited to provide game ideas during the start of the competition and being invited to judge the games at Dare ProtoPlay, members of the public were able to follow the teams' progress online via blog entries and video diaries.
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