#Dare2016
Scotland’s Biggest Games Festival Dundee City Square & Caird Hall
4 - 6 Aug, 10am - 6pm 7 Aug, 10am - 4pm
Awards Ceremony: 7 Aug, 4:30pm
What’s On? Sponsored by
1. City Square Tents Dare to be Digital 2016 teams showcase
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NEoN Festival preview
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From DIY Design to DMA Design (1980 – 1990)
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From DIY Design to DMA Design is an exploration of Dundee’s chapter of home grown computer-literate designers. If you were part of this DIY movement, created your own code or even part of the ZX Spectrum production line we want to hear your story.
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2. Caird Hall Dare Indie Fest
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Design your own game Awkward Arcade
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Global Cardboard Challenge
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3. Marryat Hall Media Partner
BAFTA Scotland Career Close-up Workshop
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Board Games
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Awards Ceremony
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Edinburgh Games Symposium
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Welcome to the 2016
I am delighted to welcome you to Dare ProtoPlay 2016. Dare ProtoPlay is the showcase event for Dare to be Digital, Abertay University’s international games design competition for students. Once again, teams of superbly talented students from all over the world have faced the serious challenge of designing, building and testing a new computer game for you to play today. This year the 16 teams worked in their home universities before travelling to Dundee to be part of Scotland’s biggest video games festival. As well as showcasing the games designed and built by the Dare teams, we also bring you indie game developers from across the UK and abroad. Be sure to walk through to the Caird Hall to take a look.
Abertay University has remained at the forefront of developing talent, creativity and expertise in games and digital media, and continues to lead the way in applying games technology to an increasing range of other academic and industrial fields. Dare to be Digital is just one aspect of our work in this area, and I invite you to visit www.abertay.ac.uk to find out more. There is a fabulous array of UK and international talent and creativity on show here at the Caird Hall and City Square, and many of these young people will become the game development stars of the future.
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The success of Dare to be Digital and Dare ProtoPlay is due to continued support of our sponsors and partners and the mentors who have given their time to work with the students. I am grateful to them all for their support.
Since launching the world’s first computer game degree course almost 20 years ago,
Thank you for joining us.
Professor Nigel Seaton Principal and Vice-Chancellor Abertay University
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This is how it works...
The Dare Journey THE INDUCTION
Dare to be Digital supports the creation of video game prototypes by young developers
Teams are selected to take part via a rigorous industry selection process
Teams of art, audio and programming students apply with their own original game concept on the Dare website
Teams build their games over the summer, based at their home universities all over the world
GAME DEVELOPMENT
MENTORING BY INDUSTRY EXPERTS
All the teams receive mentoring and training from games industry professionals
At the end of Dare ProtoPlay an awards ceremony is held to present prizes to the winning teams
In the final week all teams showcase their games at Dare ProtoPlay to the toughest critics of all...you!
FOCUS TESTING
INDUSTRY SUPPORT
Outputs from Dare include a flow of proven talent for the video games industry, a pipeline of new IP, start up companies, educational events and cultural events.
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In a world where music has magical properties... Guide Nuby in his quest to restore harmony and join the community to rebuild Eloryn’s world !
The team YUMPAS
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Audience Award 2016 Have you picked the winner? Use your wristband to vote! CROWBAR GAM ES P RES EN TS
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Vote in the Caird Hall!
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In a world where music has magical properties... Guide Nuby in his quest to restore harmony and join the community to rebuild Eloryn’s world !
The team YUMPAS
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Elsa PHAN
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Caird Hall From DIY Design to DMA Design (1980 – 1990) Spectrum’s distinctive rainbow motif hit the streets of Dundee in April 1982, fresh off the Timex production line. This revolutionary home computer gave people the ability to make their own games. Whether it was a craving to replicate the arcade games of America or an overwhelming desire to understand how things worked, British kids become great bedroom programmers giving rise to a DIY gaming phenomenon. From DIY Design to DMA Design is an exploration of Dundee’s chapter of home grown computer-literate designers.
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Dare Indie Fest
What’s going on in Caird Hall? 1.
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DARE INDIE FEST
Over 20 indie games studios from Scotland, England and across the world showcase their latest creativity in games innovation. This year, we are particularly focusing on experimental games and serious games - games that serve a purpose other than just entertainment.
AWKWARD ARCADE
The Awkward Arcade is a real life experimental video arcade, showcasing games that make you move and think in ways uncommon in mainstream games culture. The majority of these games have never been shown outside of a purely digital environment before.
They have been specially curated and built into arcade cabinets just for the Awkward Arcade.
3. GLOBAL CARDBOARD CHALLENGE
A video game starts from an idea. The idea can be developed through cutting up paper boxes. Inspired by 9-year old Caine’s game arcade, Global Cardboard Challenge will challenge you to create a game arcade using paper boxes.
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DESIGN YOUR OWN GAME
Create stories, games, and animations using Scratch software with some guidance from our volunteers.
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BAFTA SCOTLAND CAREER CLOSE-UP WORKSHOP
Join BAFTA Scotland to find out how to enter the games industry. One session only on Thursday 4 August at 3pm.
BOARD GAMES
Discover what new board games are out there, beyond the usual Monopoly or Cluedo and come play with Abertay University’s very own Tabletop Society. We have games ranging from short and quick, to longer more traditional ones. Games
include: Tsuro, Codenames, Jamaica, Citadels, Mascarade, Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and more!
3. EDINBURGH GAMES SYMPOSIUM
Edinburgh Games Symposium for Saturday 6 August only. Find out more on page 39.
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AWARDS CEREMONY
Dare to be Digital Awards Ceremony, Sunday 7 August, 4:30pm. Open to the public.
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TEAM NAME
GAME
SteelLogic
Square-Route: A game based on Rubix Cube.
SwopBots
SwopBots: A 2D platform game designed to teach coding to primary aged children.
Funk and Soul Collective
2D Dogeball Game: A 4-player competitive local multi-player game.
Hyper Luminal Games
IgKnight: A couch competitive assault course brawler.
Dziethew
The Gods are Wanting: Gamers collect ingredients to make offerings to the gods.
Lightspeed Games
Gravity Bounce: A remake of the classic video game “Pong” where players can sabotage each other.
Katie Worton
Change the Setting: An experimental, narrative-driven game based on the idea of the context
Sofa Squadron
Super Block Party: A 2D, side scrolling, multiplayer platformer.
James Earl Cox III
Temporality: An award-winning, experimental/serious game taking place on a Great War
Marios Michalakos
KUBOT: A minimalist 2D puzzle platformer where you push coloured blocks and manipulate the
Mountain Walrus
The Tower: A virtual reality experience that puts the player in the shoes of a archer on their quest to vanquish an ancient evil.
Kirsty Keatch
Hedra: Hedra is a one touch infinite scroller, with a twist, for iOS and Android.
Natahem
Your Star: A RPG-Adventure-Exploration game, based on hand-made drawings on paper.
Chronology Games
Bobby Tin-Can’ Johansen: A maniacal archaeologist has uncovered a time travelling artefact,
Skully B
Pizza Toppa: A game about having fun while making a pizza!
Folk Tales Entertainment
Sugaropolis: Sugaropolis focuses on the Scottish sugar trade and its subsequent consequences.
Team 15 Games
Montezuma: A fun, Aztec themed, local multiplayer game.
Offensive Magenta Games
Selene: Selene is a short, first-person walking simulator set in an ethereal abandoned city.
Insert Imagination
To-Tum: A 3D spatial puzzle game challenging players to navigate through 3D mazes & discover
Capsule Three Ltd
Observatorium: An inventive puzzle adventure game set in a northern archipelago called Echo
Team Dare
Dare the Monkey: A one-button platform game with a core target audience of 8-12 year olds.
No Loading Required
Lantern - Lost in the Dark: A cooperative Lovecraftian horror-inspired board game for 2-8
Patience iOS Team
Patience: A 2D, minimalist platform game for iPhone & iPad devices.
Thermo-Dynamic Games
Echoes: An episodic game which explores psychology and mental health.
Acceleratated Collective
VR Game: A physics based VR experience where players will catapult themselves.
8Click Studios & Cybernaut Games
ON$LAUGHT: This prototype game addresses issues with cyber security, specifically in ATMs.
Scottish Crucible - Play to Promote
MEGACORP: Four original educational games made in collaboration with scientific experts from around Scotland.
Figure of Eight
The Legacy: An educational game to preserve the legacy of Andrew Carnegie.
Abertay MProf
Frozen with Fear: A puzzle platformer where the player must guide a group of frightened
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battlefield.
gravity to solve puzzles.
allowing him to control time and space!
the audio-visual world of To-Tum! Lake.
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children out of an abandoned factory.
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