ComX 2014

It's an event in the University of Gloucestershire's Park Campus, in Cheltenham Spa for the Interactive Media and Business students. That includes their Interactive Games Design students - a very old and good friend of mine is a final year student and was showing off his group's game, Keeper City there - which I will review in an upcoming post.

There was a nice mix of games and apps made by mostly final year students, though there were a few talented 1st and 2nd year groups who were displaying work as well. I got to play nearly all the final years games, plus one other that I think was from a 1st or 2nd year group, a rather good alpha build of a fps/hacking game (again, will review soon)

It was really good to see all this up-and-coming talent - most were using Unity and outputting low-to-high poly games with fairly solid gameplay. Some required a bit of polish and such, but all in all it was a joy to see all these talented people displaying these 6-month projects.

I think out of them all, I have 4/5 games to review now? Even better is that I have contact details for all these people so I can let them know when the blogposts go up.

These are the teams from ComX 2014, in particular you should all check out Shogun, Eternal Resonance, D-Piction Games and Arrowhawk. (full disclosure - my friend is in Arrowhawk)

There are trailers for the games on the ComX site, which I will link directly when doing my reviews.

All in all, it was a good event and one I may have to return to.