Industry Lines up to Support Dare 09
6th May 2009
An elite group of UK games developers and BBC Scotland are offering mentors to support Dare to be Digital, the ground breaking international computer game design competition developed by the University of Abertay Dundee.
Black Rock Studio, Blitz Games Studios, BBC Scotland, Cohort Studios, Denki, Ninja Theory, Rare, Realtime Worlds, Rockstar North, SEGA and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) have all joined the ‘Developer Accord’, to provide mentoring support for this year’s Dare to be Digital teams.
Paul Durrant, Director of Business Development at Abertay University said: “The combination of experience and expertise brought by the members of our Developer Accord is second to none. We have attracted support from the cream of development studios throughout the UK. The students taking part in this year’s competition will benefit from the experience of the best in the business”
Members of the Developer Accord will help to determine the choice of teams at three UK selection events, taking place in London, Liverpool and Glasgow. Teams selected by the developers will go forward to the ‘Dare hothouse’ at Abertay University in Dundee. International teams will be hand-picked at similar selection events taking place worldwide.
“Dare to be Digital has become a unique and unifying project for the development community” continued Durrant, “All of the members of the Developer Accord are participating on an equal basis because they recognise the value of the project to the future of the games sector.”
Teams selected for the hothouse will receive a stipend, industry mentoring from members of the Developer Accord, accommodation, hardware/software and development space for the ten weeks of the competition. This culminates in a live final at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, where industry members will choose the three winning teams. Those teams then go onto become the nominees for the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award, which was created by BAFTA exclusively for Dare to be Digital winners .
Dare to be Digital is sponsored by many of the world’s leading technology and media companies and organisations including: Intel, Turner Broadcasting, Autodesk, Adobe, amBX, Microsoft, The Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise Tayside, and Dundee City Council.
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