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In 2009 Dare has two components: Dream and Do.
Dream: creative community
The creative community will be the influencers of Dare content. They will pitch game ideas that the community and teams will review, vote on and choose which prototypes that the DO hothouse will deliver.
DO: inspiration core
The original Dare to be Digital competition for talented and well qualified arts and science students and graduates but now characterised by a UK wide and international selection process to choose teams of five students to take part in the Dare hothouse in Dundee, Scotland. In the hothouse the teams will work for nine to ten weeks to creative a prototype game. They will receive a project fee, industry mentoring and immediately at the end of the competition, they will need to demonstrate their game to an audience of thousands at Dare ProtoPlay, part of the Edinburgh International Festival. The three best prototypes as judged by the industry will be nominated for the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award.
Chinese International Teams
In 2009 all teams from around the UK, Ireland and including the international teams will be based in Dundee. Dare are looking to select a team of 4 students from India and a team of 4 students from China who will be joined by a Scottish National student, growing their team to 5 inline with all the other teams competing. We believe that it will be a beneficial and supportive environment for the international students to have a Scottish National team mate with them. The Scottish National team mate will meet their appointed international team in China for liaision purposes prior to the competition and who will travel back to Dundee with the team in June to start the competition.
Following their arrival in the UK, the teams will be invited on a sightseeing trip of Edinburgh. Aware that many of the students will have never travelled to the UK or Scotland before Dare want to give them a first hand experience of a ‘Taste of Scotland’ and welcome them to our country.
Dare ProtoPlay
In week 9 of the Project all student teams are taken to Edinburgh to showcase their games to the public at Dare ProtoPlay, alongside the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. All the game prototypes are judged by a panel of Industry experts and 3 teams are selected as the winners and automatically nominated for a BAFTA Ones to Watch Award.
Final Awards Ceremony
The awards ceremony will take place in Edinburgh when Dare ProtoPlay finishes where the winning teams will be announced and presented with their cash prizes by Industry sponsors.
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