Abertay Un♏iversity has started accepting applications for this year’s Dare To Be Digital, in which student teams will compete to win the coveted BAFTA Ones♏ To Watch Award.

For 2015, Abertay has widened the criteria for entry. Previous Dare events have given students just eight weeks to work on a game from scratch, expliꦇcitly excluding any student or jam projects already in production.

Now the only limitation is that entries must have been in production for less than a year and have had no previous commercial release. The additional freedo🍷m also extends to allowing students to use their own computers and tablets.

The competition will cul༺minate, as before, with the Dare Protoplay show in Dundee.

“Dare to be Digital was set up to give students the best chance of working in the 🅷games industry, but since 2000 that industry has changed beyond anyone’s imagination,” says Professor Louis Natanson, Head of the School of Arts, Media and Computer Games at Aber𒀰tay University.

“The explosion of mobile gaming and the ne🌊w freedom to self-publish on app stores has fundamentally changed what students can achieve after graduation, with creating their own business now much more achievable than ever before.

“We want Dare to be Digital to reflect that opportunity and let stude📖nts build on their university studies and their game jam projects.”

Anyone interested in taking ꦑpart should before April 2, and submit their applicatio﷽ns by May 3.

A panel of industry experts will then select 15 teams to complete their games over the summer, in the process competing for prize💮s from BAFTA, ꦐChannel 4 and other companies.

You can apply from anywhere in the world, but you’ll need an endorsement from a member of the teaching staff at ❀your university.

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