Games Fleadh


Games Fleadh, is a 2-day mid-week convention held annually in LIT-Tipperary for computer games enthusiasts and developers to showcase their talent and programming skills. It is usually held in early March and is partially funded by LIT-Tipperary's Centre for Entertainment & Game Technology Research. Additional supporters include Microsoft, EA, and Demonware.

History

Games Fleadh was originally a competition called RoboCode Ireland Challenge, which was an artificial intelligence programming language challenge for first year college students. Teams of students designed a robot that would compete against another colleges robot, and with the robot with the best algorithm receiving the Robocode Marshal title. As this competition grew, Games Fleadh was established as an overarching event.
Games Fleadh started in 2008, by the festivals driving force Philip Bourke, a lecturer of Games Design and Development at LIT-Tipperary, when he saw no other strong festival for the growing Irish Games design industry. It started off small, with a small number of colleges being invited to participate. RoboCode is now an event inside the convention of Games Fleadh.
Since 2014 Dr Liam Noonan a lecturer in the Limerick IT Campus has taken over coordination of this event and with the support of other third level Irish colleges, students every year design and develop games based around a theme.

Events

Competitions and Challenges

The challenge competitions are judged by 3rd party industry professionals. Previous Judges have been from Microsoft, EA, Havok, Playfirst, NeverMind Games, and OpenEmotion Studios.
Over the years there has been a number of different themes which typically revolve around the anniversary of a game.
Robocode Ireland Challenge Champions
XNA Game Studio Ireland Challenge/Game Studio Ireland Challenge
DirectX Ireland Challenge Honours List: