Digital Games Competition for the
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
To help celebrate and promote the
values of the Commonwealth Games movement, the Glasgow 2014
Organising Committee, and funding partner the Scottish Government,
held a competition to develop a free-to-play digital computer
game.
The competition invited individual students, or teams of students,
from Scotland’s Higher Education Institutions to submit entries and
closed on 4 April 2011.
The winner has been working on their game concept directly with
professional digital game developers to help transform the concept
into a working online game. The winner and the runner-up also won a
cash prize of £2,014.
The game will be launched in the
summer of 2011 and will be featured on the Glasgow 2014 website. It
will be freely available to the hundreds of thousands of online
visitors checking in for information about the Glasgow 2014
Commonwealth Games.
The game will reflect and promote the values of the Commonwealth
Games Federation: - Humanity, Equality and Destiny. The competition
has also helped the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games to provide a
legacy of lasting benefit by supporting Scotland’s digital games
sector, giving games companies access to emerging talent and
supporting skills development for talented students
