BAFTA YGD Partners
07 July 10
BAFTA would like to thank the following partners for their input and support of the Young Game Designers Initiative.
Partners
| NESTANESTA is an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative to drive economic recovery and solve some of the UK’s major social challenges. Our endowment status means we operate at no cost to the UK taxpayer. NESTA is a world leader in its field and is in a unique position to support innovation through a blend of practical programmes, policy and research and investment in early-stage companies. |
| Abertay UniversityAbertay University’s Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games is the UK centre of excellence for computer games education. The Institute’s taught portfolio includes highlights such as three Skillset accredited programmes and a Masters in Professional Practice in Games Development with forty publicly funded places allocated for UK and EU students. All courses reflect the high level of industry involvement Abertay University's activities, underpinned by academic rigour. The Institute is also the home to Dare to be Digital, the international talent competition that provides the exclusive pathway to the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award which this year attracted entries from students from over eighty universities world-wide. Abertay University also has a portfolio of innovative interdisciplinary research associated with the visualisation of complex data associated with games technology. This work spans the whole University and also includes disciplines within Arts, Media and Computer Games. The Institute’s new business support project providing grants to SMEs for prototype games development is run by a team recruited from industry and will draw on all of the successful facets of Abertay University’s activities described above. |
| Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA MobileTM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2010, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.7 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million units. EA's homepage and online game site is Electronic Arts . More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at www.ea.com/uk/press EA, EA SPORTS, EA Mobile and POGO are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. |
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