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Games Development Students Code Their Way to Success at GameCraft Cork

03/12/2014

A group of students from the Computer Games Development Course at IT Carlow impressed at the recent GameCraft event in Cork, winning the Peoples' Choice Award for a game they created and developed at the games jam event. GamesCraft is a yearly event that allows game-makers to meet, share ideas and create games.

Giving the theme "Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink", the Institute’s students created a fishing game with a difference in which a lone fisherman has to carefully extract his catch from a sea invested with loan sharks.

Commenting on the team’s success course director Ross Palmer said "Creating games is a challenge of integrating diverse technologies.  I'm delighted to see our students turn game physics into fun. Programming fun is something we encourage our students to do and seeing them do this makes us immensely proud”.

The winning team members were: Xiaoqian Xi; Jesse Byrne; Darren Kelly; Sean Morrissey; Andrew O'Neill and team captain Francis O'Meara Haslam

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For more information contact Philip Bourke, Games Development Lecturer, IT Carlow e: philip.bourke@setu.ie