Australian STEM Video Game Challenge

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Facilitating engagement with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, students learn vital skills for the future through designing, building and testing an original video game.

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Facilitating engagement with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, students learn vital skills for the future through designing, building and testing an original video game.

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Competition dates

Registrations open
20 February 2018
Registrations close
27 April 2018
Game submission open
23 July 2018
Game submission closes
3 August 2018
Winners announced
3 October 2018

News & events

2018 Winners!

Well done to all our 2018 finalists. The standard of games was very high but there can be only one winner in each category.

The winners of the 2018 Australian STEM Video Game Challenge are announced below. If you do not see your team code and game name here, you have been eliminated from this year’s competition. We thank you for entering and hope that we will see you again in 2019 with even bigger and better games.

Certificates and feedback will be sent out to all mentors throughout November.

Keep your eye out for next year’s theme which will be on our website in the first week of November.

And the winners are...

Year 5-8: Playable game - OPEN CATEGORY

45C306A3 Unknown Dimensions

Year 5-8: Playable game in GAMEMAKER

44C08EB0 ARCADIUM:EVOLUTION

Year 5-8: Playable game in SCRATCH

9559F83B Frogtransmogrifier

Year 9-12: Playable game - OPEN CATEGORY

917B6A90 Purify Down Under

Year 9-12: Playable game in GAMEMAKER

7B616D3E Shapes

Year 9-12: Playable game in UNITY & UNREAL

C3C4A290 Rewind

Round 2 results

Well done to all teams that entered the STEM Challenge this year. Round 2 was tough for our judges. It is very clear that so many of you have put a lot of work into your games and GDD’s and you should give yourselves a pat on the back, the competition has been of a high standard this year.

Certificates and a small gift from us will be sent out to all Mentors throughout November. Don’t forget to keep your eye out for next year’s theme that will be announced at PAX and will be up on our website in the first week of November – maybe you can get planning early for next year’s STEM Challenge!

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If you do not see your team code and game name below then you have been eliminated from this year’s competition. We hope that we will see you again next year with even bigger and better games.

Congratulations to the following teams that have made it through Round 2 Judging and are now the 2018 finalists in the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge.

Mentors of the winning teams will be notified by phone in the first week of October, after which the results will be made public through the news and events on the STEMgames website.

Good luck to all our finalists.

Year 5-8: Playable game - OPEN CATEGORY

24AC574B Forest Adventure
45C306A3 Unknown Dimensions
9D2DEB85 Morph's Adventure
65526F6C Boss Boss Boss
009E6834 A Jump Back in Time
2BB8AB4E Endless Defence

Year 5-8: Playable game in GAMEMAKER

44C08EB0 ARCADIUM:EVOLUTION
05C098C1 Master of Patience
C97ABF8F Teenage Pitfall
784D834B Infect size

Year 5-8: Playable game in SCRATCH

8FD8093E Bush Tucker Warriors
91A4DCD7 Osaka the Blue Butterfly Superherione
9EB4DC46 Transforming Thief
912A70FA Robot Balloon Warfare
9559F83B Frogtransmogifier
5FB87219 Mission Mars
3C8276A3 Ebola Run: The transformation of Ebola

Year 9-12: Playable game in GAMEMAKER

(Small note to teams in this category – your games are being judged in Round 3 by YoYo Games in the UK – the developers of the GAMEMAKER platform.)

7B616D3E Shapes
E1CC1977 Save the Planet
6C7BB40B Through the Ages
0F75BCBF Shapes
F6E47BA7 When Caterpillar's Fly
DF0C5366 My Life
C0549194 The ERROR of Our Code

Year 9-12: Playable game in UNITY & UNREAL

C3C4A290 Rewind
2EA1135A Ice Cubed
2D3B338B Dungeons of Wrath and Mana
75887AC4 Brick Drop
33352E2C Eden
1D471DC3 Space Arena Trials

Phase I Judging 2018 is now complete!

Congratulations to all the teams that submitted games this year. Our Judges have worked very hard over the last few weeks playing your games and checking your GDD's and we can now release the results for Round One.

If you do not find your team code and name below then you have moved on to Round 2 - Congratulations!

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The following teams have been eliminated from the competition for 2018:

Year 5-8: Playable game - OPEN CATEGORY

SLIPPERY (2BB8AB4E)
BOSH Games (3A1AFC2F)

Year 5-8: Playable game in GAMEMAKER

Team 8 (0B3F53C7)
Team 7 (0E08C414)
Team 3 (10DE52CB)
Cggs11 (2DDA8A7A)
Cggs3 (359B1340)
Cggs13 (6642610E)
Team 2 (68E79588)
Team 5 (69B2A4E8)
Team 6 (7BEE86AE)
Team 4 (B02C4276)
Team 1 (F8BAA396)

Year 5-8: Playable game in SCRATCH

The Back Scratchers
Fadden 18
Bye Llama Pyjamas (01439C33)
K.Z.R. (08D2B559)
Flash Game Box Co (0C8E2715)
Michaelsoft (0F818CBB)
The 4 Dimensions (10A712BB)
Fadden 19 (14B5C3E8)
Team 2 (1C6B85CE)
The Gaming Divas (1C7C508B)
non specified (226E53DD)
Pheonix Games (30072EC3)
Forward (33342DFC)
Fadden 16 (40368C84)
The Classic (45115C74)
Madmann (46AB934B)
Cyber Squad (4B095591)
Piggy Penguins (578A1F6C)
Animal Clash (582AC7F3)
Team WIN (5F942C65)
Team I (614F6754)
GIRLS MAKE YOUR MOVE (6262537C)
Bob Cheezymemes (66A0A70D)
Roland (6DAD21C0)

Year 5-8: Playable game in SCRATCH (cont.)

Scorpoins (7C6C9EC4)
Space Awesomeness (7CC24058)
Girton Four (81BA5480)
Nooby Unicorns (84C6E7DE)
Rainbow Runners (8B0488A0)
DUCKS! (92743F2E)
Brightsiders (9642FADD)
LK Cyborgs (964D4FBD)
AJS Pros (A342267C)
The Unforgettable Rainbow Puppy Ninjas (AA2113B6)
Team A (AD0AAAEE)
7CST2-Team2 (AEEC3D09)
Gameboiz (B45A8FD6)
Lucien MC (5C96083)
The Fantastic 4 (C8E75D79)
VBPS1 (CB8B19BB)
Sam's Team (D2F3EBDB)
The Unicorns (D41CBE4F)
KALAKae (D4736B2A)
Fadden 17 (E7611080)
Internet Invaders (ECBA3D2C)
JaArCo (ECFF893C)
Girton Three (F4CD131C)

Year 9-12: Playable game in GAMEMAKER

Bow Ties Inc (14648EF4)
Pixel Smash (18C07412)
Green Gauntlet (20AD76B0)
BOS (28A5C35F)
Animals (2979459F)
Noah (3FFBEB94)
Andre's Warriors (6E351142)
Avacity (A948A95C)
Scots Team B (B0C62E99)
MaristTeam10-1 (C1014F53)
Beef Boys (C813B052)
MaristTeam10-1b (D4122625)
MaristTeam10-2a (DB8648C0)
Legends (E129A24D)

Year 9-12: Playable game in UNITY & UNREAL

Nirvana (1A61FB35)
Moonlit Games (22A3E545)
Mentone (2C251D54)
Overflow Games (33AA65B0)
Shawty (56217C81)
NSKJ (A3132BE9)
N&G (C485AC9A)

Partners

The Australian STEM Video Game Challenge is facilitated by the ACER Foundation, a charitable organisation underwritten by the Australian Council for Educational Research. The ACER Foundation engages with many external organisations including our major partner AIE to help make the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge possible, and would like to publicly thank and acknowledge the support of: