An overview of the Spring 2024 season of Dogfood Studios.
📅 Period: February 2024 - July 2024
👾 Students: GDT-B ~52, GDT-A ~26, Visual Design Interns ~4
News
In Spring 2024, our GDT-Advanced students were inspired once more by playing VR games at Enversed VR Center, while GDT-Basic students struggled transforming their GOAT video game into a genre-bending board game. We doubled the number of visual design interns, adding more fuel to the 6 budding Games Studios. The GDT-Advanced projects ened up in another succesful edition of the Dragons' Den: Spring 2024, with the game Shattered Echoes passing the bar.
Dogfood Studios had their own study break to dive into a cross-engine multiplayer game concept, juicing up our own skills in Unity and Unreal during the Mid-term Dogfood Project. Right when we were ready for a lull, we welcomed guest speaker James Lockett from Frontier.
We ended the season as always at the Innovations Insight, now with even more bells, whistles and the introduction of the Spork award. Just before the summer stop, we invited ambitious students for the next season to already get acquainted in the pre-season networking event.
Your Own Game (2nd year students)
See a showcase with playable versions on our itch.io / GDTB Spring 2024 page.
Dragons’ Den (3rd year students)
This edition featured the following dragons:
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Miguel Rebocho de Oliveira | Product Manager Pyro Entertainment |
| Chris Hendriks | CEO Sue B.V. |
| Luuk Waarbroek | Team lead Rusty Lake |
| Bertine van Hövell tot Westerflier | Board member Dutch Game Association (DGA) |
And the following 6 Game Studios presented their games:
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 13:15 | 🌭 Studio 21 - Bread Gone Bad |
| 13:30 | 🥘 Topple Studios - Terrabort |
| 13:45 | 🥘 Rogue Ape Studio - Crusadeon |
| 14:00 | 🥘 GGeese Studios - AR Combat Karts |
| 14:30 | 🥘 Team Throcket - Whispering Depths |
| 14:45 | 🥘 Scratchpost Games - Shattered Echoes |
| 15:00 | 🥘 Whacky Games Studio - ChronoClash |
| 15:15 | 🥘 Liberdius Games - Accursed Vow |
Industry Projects
Final demo: Thu Jun 27, 2024, 14:00-16:00 (Innovations Insight)
GDT - Basic (2nd year students)
A showcase of the results can be found on Fontys Made / GDTB Fall 2023.
GDT - Advanced (3rd year students)
| Students | Project | Partner |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Free roam VR | Enversed Studios |
| 6 | Transformative Brainscape | IXD |
| 6 | Pixel Playground Exploration | IT-WorkZ |
| 6 | Het Verborgen Oog | De ontdekfabriek |
| 6 | Shattered Echoes | Dragons’ Den Winner |
| 6 | Crusaedeon | Dragons’ Den Wildcard |
A showcase of the results can be found on Fontys Made / GDTA Spring 2024.