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Game Studio

Information regarding registration of teams for Game Studio 2026 will be posted on this page.

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General Information

Students are required to submit using a One Drive or Google Drive folder shared with liam.noonan@tus.ie please ensure your college lecturer is also provided with this share URL

  1. Game Executable
  2. Source Code
  3. Design Doc
  4. A video Trailer Screencast max of 90 seconds

Closing date for submission of entry is Monday March 2nd 10:00am 2026

As states in the Rules Entrants will be accepted from 2nd, 3rd and/or 4th years that are full time undergraduate 3rd level courses and Fetac level 6 game design related courses. Entrants must have the approval of an academic mentor. The maximum number of team members is 6.

2025 Prize Categories

Judging Criteria

Your entry will be judged using, but not limited to, the following criteria.

Game Play

  1. Clarity of Games’ goals
  2. Player is motivated to play the game again (i.e use of leaderboards, share score etc)
  3. Levels are creative and attractive with a ramp up of difficulty
  4. User interface is well defined and enhances the game
  5. The narrative of the game addresses the theme of addressing climate change and its impacts
  6. The Game Trailer would encourage someone to play the game
  7. Player can replay the game using a different approach/strategy

Game Mechanics

  1. The game poses a set of unique and interesting challenges for the player to overcome
  2. Implementation of the rules and procedures that guide the player and the game response to the player’s moves or actions

Algorithms

  1. How decisions are made in the game code, are they simple binary decisions, do they use simple calculations or do they implement a decision algorithm to guide the player or NPC in the game i.e. AI, Machine Learning, graph tree
  2. Use of Physics calculations to produce a more realistic game

Use of Programming and Game Engine Concepts

  1. Use of programming concepts and commenting of code
  2. Use of basic frameworks and libraries provided by the programming language or Game Engine. Has the code been designed with scalability and code reuse in mind i.e. inheritance, polymorphism etc
  3. Use of advanced frameworks, plugins and external APIs (or development of a custom library/API)

Game Dev Resources

Programming

Windows 11

Frameworks and Engines

JavaScript (HTML) Frameworks and Libraries

Art

2D

3D

Art Assets

Audio

Sound Generators

Sound Assets

Production

Project Management