Success for Games Development teams at annual student showcase
Final year Games Development students from the University of Huddersfield won a total of seven awards at the recent Game Republic Student Showcase 2025.
Five Huddersfield teams demonstrated their original games at the annual competition and between them came home with two first-place, two second-place and three third-place prizes.
The Showcase sees leading game studios judge the art, animation, narrative, design, technology, game design and teamwork behind the students’ creations.
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There were seven categories: Game Art and Animation, Game Technology, Game Narrative Design, Game Level Design, Game Design, Game Audio and Best Team. Projects were judged by leading games studios including Distinctive Games, Pitstop Productions, Red Kite Games, Revolution Software, Sumo Digital and Atomhawk.
This was the 15th year that Huddersfield has entered into the Student Showcase and its students continue the tradition of winning awards each year.
The five teams and their game designs were Fever Dream Tangerine with Parasol Protocol; Happy Hour with Pint Sized; Cloud Burst with Sprite's City Scramble; Skull Fracture Studios with Echo Valley and Placeholder with duNgeoN.
The Fever Dream Tangerine team comprised of Calum Short, Joshua Sykes-Ellis, Mudaber Ahmed, Ricco Vergara, Maisy Adams and Hannah McMullan with audio input from Jack Hawksley.
They created a multiplayer co-op game for 2-4 players, with Parasol Protocol taking home four prizes - 1st place for Game Level Design, 1st place for Game Audio, 2nd place for Game Design, and 3rd place for Game Art & Animation.
The Happy Hour team won three awards overall, 2nd place for Game Level Design, 3rd place for Game Design and 3rd place for Game Audio for their creation Pint Sized, a co-op serving game.
The team consisted of Daniel Kerridge, Holly Buckley, Cameron Hunt, Alex Worsley, Eddie Robinson and Leo Woodley.
Dr Duke Gledhill, Senior Lecturer within the Department of Computer Science and Director of Student Recruitment for the School of Computing and Engineering, commented: “This recognition from major studios is a powerful endorsement of our students’ potential. They’ve grown from learners to confident creators, and these awards show they’re more than ready to step into the games industry.”
The annual Game Republic Student Showcase saw nearly 200 students from across 14 universities and colleges present a total of 55 projects. It was held at Sheffield Hallam University on 17 June.