BAFTA Ones to Watch Award

25 July 08

The BAFTA Ones to Watch award in association with Dare to Be Digital celebrates new talent and innovation in the video games industry.

Dare to be Digital is a video games development competition, run through Dare to Be Digital, where teams of five art and science students/recent graduates are filtered through a rigorous industry selection process to work together for ten weeks from June To August. At the end of the 10 weeks they compete for cash prizes. The 3 main winners then go on to form the nominees for the BAFTA ones to Watch Award.

This year’s Dare to be Digital winners were announced at a ceremony on the 14 August.

Origamee is set in a 3D pop-up story book themed world incorporating traditional adventure style puzzle solving. Environmental issues such as recycling and pollution are raised subtlety throughout the game.

Boro-Toro is a side scrolling platform puzzle game which uses an innovative control system using Wii technology.

VegeMe allows the player to grow and style their own world in a race against their opponent.

These games now form the shortlist for the BAFTA Ones to Watch award, now in its second year. The 3 shortlisted teams are given a number of weeks to address the panels comments and produce a final version of their game which combines best use of technology, market potential and innovation. The winner will be announced at the British Academy Video Games Awards on Tuesday 10 March 2009.