Five Falmouth students made the Grads in Games Search for a Star and Rising Star finals

Falmouth University Games Academy students Brandon Chadwick, Faith Hamil, Samual Wood, Robert Turner and James Percival all made the finals for the 2024 Grads in Games Rising Star and Search for a Star challenges.

Grads in Games is an award-winning outreach initiative founded by leading games industry recruiters Aardvark Swift in 2014. Through its programme of events, activities and resources, it aims to help more graduates make the leap from student to games industry professional.

The Grads in Games Rising Star (for final year students) and Search for a Star (for student not yet in their final year of study) challenges are designed alongside leading studios and game developers. Programming, design, 3D art, animation and VFX students across the UK and Europe are invited to show their skills and build their portfolio, creating technical game projects and polished game-ready assets.

As finalists, Falmouth students Brandon Chadwick, Faith Hamil, Samual Wood, Robert Turner and James Percival had the opportunity to receive feedback from games professionals as they took part in interviews with industry leaders at the annual Finals Day and student conference.

Announcing the finalists, Grads in Games wrote: "These students have shown high level skills and created exceptional projects over the course of a few weeks, across programming, art, design, animation and VFX. Many of the students in this list will undoubtedly become future stars of the games industry and we're eager to help them on that journey."