An overview of the Fall 2023 season of Dogfood Studios.

📅 Period: November 2023 - January 2023
👾 Students: GDTB ~48, GDTA ~32, Visual Design Interns ~2

News

Fall 2023 gave Dogfood Studios online presence. We welcomed our first two visual design interns boosting one Game Studio’s concept art and game assets. Our GDT-Advanced students had a High-paced start of another season playing a VR tournament at Enversed VR Center. We also had developers of Rusty Lake drop by to test their new release with our students. We also experimented with letting GDT-Basic students turn their GOAT video game into a physical game in The Game Pie: Boardgame edition with unique results. And of course, our Dragons' Den: Fall 2023 reached a new level with four excellent dragons and a Game Studio who passed the high bar. They have now entered the SPARC inbubator program. At BattlePass expired: Innovations Insight, all industry groups presented their work, marking the end of an eventful season.

Your Own Game (2nd year students)

See a showcase with playable versions on our itch.io / GDTB Fall 2023 page.

Dragons’ Den (3rd year students)

This edition featured the following dragons:

Name Position
Luuk Waarbroek Team lead Rusty Lake
John Bell Venture Builder and Innovation Champion
Niel Vredeveldt Co-founder ArtKing Studio
Tim van der Grinten CEO Enversed Studios

And the following 6 Game Studios presented their games:

When What
13:00 Dragons are introduced
13:20 🌭 Infinite Interactive - Vanderlande Baggage Simulator
13:40 🌭 Catfood Studios - PartyMorph
14:00 🌭 Rogue Ape Studios - Secrets of Ignacios
14:20 Break
14:40 🌭 QuantumMonkey Studios - Project Honeybee
15:00 🥘 GGeese Studios - XR Racer’s Toolkit
15:20 🌭 Redbyte Studios - Voidscape
15:40 🌭 Tacticat Studios - Aeon Chronicle
16:00 Drinks and snacks, playing your games

Industry Projects

Final demo: Thu Jan 25, 2024, 14:00-16:00 (Innovations Insight)

GDT - Basic (2nd year students)

Students Project Partner
6 The Future of Your Face Night of the Nerds
6 New Mental Health App Tweekracht
6 Budiyu – Support Games Games4Health
5 Smartfloor reception for CoE Health CoE Health / Embedded Fitness
5 Tilt Five MR Board Game Enversed Studios
5 YawVR Experience Enversed Studios
5 100 years Philips Design Philips Museum
5 Klimtrainer Experience IXD

A showcase of the results can be found on Fontys Made / GDTB Fall 2023.

GDT - Advanced (3rd year students)

Students Project Partner
6 Multiplayer SemSom Zwijsen
6 Free-roaming VR Enversed Studios
6 Brainwaves as Game Controller IXD
6 Digital Strategic Board Game Fontys PMO
6 Dragons’ Meal: Catalyst DFS ft. Gatling Gecko Studios

A showcase of the results can be found on Fontys Made / GDTA Fall 2023.