The weekend event at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, in July is an epic celebration of young games creators and the world-leading games studios based in this region.
Kicking off with a Symposium supported by BAFTA on Friday July 4th, Brains Eden then rolls into a massive 48 hour games jam over the weekend, pairing teams of students and representatives from Sony Guerrilla Cambridge, Frontier Developments, Jagex and several other major UK games companies alongside a host of notable indie game developers.
Brains Eden looks to connect games developers with young games creators and stimulates open debate. On Monday July 7th, it offers the unique chance for all students and delegates to speak directly to studio directors about their portfolio and skills at special Careers Clinics. Culminating with an awards ceremony, the event will close with a celebration of the participants and work created throughout the festival.
Annually the Brains Eden festival is designed to raise the visibility of games companies based in the locale, while simultaneously creating an environment for deep and meaningful collaboration and dialogue between locally based games developers and academia.
Watch the action from 2013 here.
The Brains Eden Gaming Festival is now six years old and continues to be a dynamic, vibrant, must-attend event run by Games Eden, the computer games developer network for the East of England and Creative Front Cambridgeshire. It would not be possible without backing from key industry leaders such as ARM, Guerrilla Cambridge, Frontier Developments, Jagex and national support from BAFTA and Ukie.
The festival is hugely popular and places for student teams are limited so if you are a course tutor, whether it be games-related or not, register now!
Brains Eden is kindly supported through Anglia Ruskin University by VIVID (Value Increase by Visual Design), a cross-border network project supported by the European Interreg IV A Programme "2 Mers Seas Zeeën" and leading research institute Cultures of the Digital Economy (CoDE).
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For more information, please visit www.creativefront.org or email Clare Green, Creative Front Manager.
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Brains Eden goes international
11 February 2014
Brains Eden, the bright and bold flagship gaming festival held in Cambridge every year, is set to go international in 2014, with teams of students, academics and games developers from across the UK and Europe joined for the first time by a Canadian team from Nova Scotia.