An overview of the Fall 2024 season of Dogfood Studios.
📅 Period: September 2024 - January 2025
👾 Students: GDTB ~42, GDTA ~31, Visual Design Interns ~4
News
Fall 2024 continued our recipe of getting into the game design mindset. We started with a boot week video games were turned into novel board game concepts. We also invited guest speaker Martijn van Buul (Jintarm) showing examples from his work on The Past Within. Our team also built an arcade cabinet to showcase the work of the students. This project will continue to grow and evolve into a CI/CD build and publish system for game development. And of course, our Dragons' Den: Fall 2024 sparked a lot of magical circles with yet another Game Studio who passing the bar and entering the SPARC incubator program. This season we did a lot of groundwork for next seasons. We’ve started on our own party game project PartyMorph, we’re rebranding the names of the semesters and have greenlight to add another game design related semester to the curriculum. This is already paying off, with two students projects winning the SPARC awards at the Innovations Insight event. Next season promises to be even more eventful. We closed the season with the first Dutch Godot User Group meetup.
Your Own Game (2nd year students)
See a showcase with playable versions on our itch.io / GDTB Fall 2024 page.
Dragons’ Den (3rd year students)
This edition featured the following dragons:
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Tim Spaninks | (former) Senior level designer Ubisoft / TimDoesLevelDesign |
| Kay Gruenwoldt | Co-founder of Riyadh Angel Syndicate |
| Adinda van Oosten | Game journalist, teacher at HKU |
| Tim van der Grinten | CEO Enversed Studios |
And the following 6 Game Studios presented their games:
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 13:00 | Dragons are introduced |
| 13:15 | 🌭 Secret Owl Studios |
| 13:30 | 🌭 Code Goblin Studios |
| 13:45 | 🥘 ZeroFox Studios |
| 14:00 | Break |
| 14:15 | 🥘 Sneaky Kiwi Productions |
| 14:30 | 🥘 Gatling Gecko Studios |
| 14:45 | 🥘 Cosmic Cactus Games |
| 15:00 | Closing remarks |
| 15:15 | Drinks and snacks, playing your games |
Industry Projects
Final demo: Thu Jan 23, 2024, 14:00-16:00 (Innovations Insight)
GDT - Basic (2nd year students)
| Students | Project | Partner |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Kistsurfers | De ontdekfabriek |
| 6 | Life Compass | Tweekracht |
| 6 | Future of Your Face | Night of the Nerds |
| 6 | TopoTouch | GamesForHealth / Visio |
| 6 | Save the Body | Fontys Sport |
| 6 | Minigame for VR Center | Enversed Studios |
| 6 | Minigame for VR Center | Enversed Studios |
A showcase of the results can be found on Fontys Made / GDTB Fall 2024.
GDT - Advanced (3rd year students)
| Students | Project | Partner |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | IOT: Airport Edition | Vanderlande |
| 5 | Drone Simulator | Safety & Security Campus |
| 8 | PartyMorph | Dogfood Studios |
| 2 | Aeon Chronicle | Dogfood Studios |
| 5 | Voidscape | Redbyte Studios |
| 2 | XR Racer’s Toolkit | GGeese Studios |
A showcase of the results can be found on Fontys Made / GDTA Fall 2023.