Scottish computer games designers have picked up three BAFTAs at a prestigious awards ceremony in London.
A team of students from the University of Abertay Dundee has won the very first BAFTA “Ones to Watch” Award.
Team ‘Voodoo Boogy’, comprising five students on Abertay’s computer games technology and computer arts degree courses, picked up their award at the British Academy Video Games Awards in London last night (23 October).
And in a remarkable night for Scottish success, Dundee-based computer games firm Realtime Worlds also picked up the BAFTA awards for Best Use of Audio and Best Action and Adventure for their Xbox 360 title ‘Crackdown’.
Voodoo Boogy are one of the three winning teams from Abertay’s Dare to be Digital competition this year. The three teams were the sole nominees for the BAFTA ‘Ones to Watch’ award, instituted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in association with Dare to be Digital.
The team members of Voodoo Boogy are: Malcolm Brown and Robert Clarke, graduates in computer games technology; Peter Carr and Finlay Sutton, graduates in computer arts; and Lynne Robertson, currently in her fourth year of computer arts.
Voodoo Boogy were competing for last night’s prize against a team from Edinburgh University and another composed of Chinese students.
Realtime Worlds was founded in 2002 by David Jones, who is a graduate of Abertay and now a Visiting Professor of Games Design and Technology. The company employs about 170 people in Dundee, plus a further 30 in Korea and Colorado. David Jones and other team members have created some of the world's best selling video games, including the global hit franchises 'Lemmings' and 'Grand Theft Auto'.
The international computer games industry is predicted to be worth around $42-44 billion annually by 2010.
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