Game design requires a blend of complex intellectual, artistic, and technical skills. Once mastered, these skills can be applied across various high-tech professions in the fields of science, technology, and the arts.
Participants are tasked with developing a game centered around a subject of their choice. The game should be engaging, exciting, visually appealing, and intellectually challenging, demonstrating high artistic, educational, and social value.
This category offers opportunities for alternative interpretations of standard game software requirements. The goal is to present observational results from multi-round field studies conducted during computer game software development competitions hosted by the iWISE Olympiad. Participants will gain insights into game development while practicing critical thinking and expanding their coding knowledge. This category encompasses elements of computer science, animation, text writing, and music editing.
– The game will be played by judges during the judging sessions.
– All participants must bring their own laptops (or electronic devices) with the pre-loaded game, ready to play.
– The game must be played directly from the participant’s electronic device (laptop is advisable) during the judging sessions.
– All instructions and rules must be clearly written in the participant’s portfolio for evaluation purposes, and the game should also feature an instructional display.
– Participants may compete individually or as a team of up to three members.
– The game must include original work from the team; however, game architecture, engines, graphics, and sounds may be sourced from other providers. Any non-original work must be properly documented, demonstrating copyright permissions.
– The game should contain multiple levels, a scoreboard, and celebratory messages.
Judging will be done at the discretion of the iWISE Olympiad Committee. All submissions will be judged by a panel selected by the iWISE Olympiad Organization. The Judges will score each criterion on a scale of 0-5, with zero being the lowest and 5 being the highest rank.
Creativity: Designs are evaluated based on originality, innovation, and artistic expression.
Technical Skill: Skills in graphic design tools and techniques is considered.
Communication: Effectiveness in conveying the intended message or concept is assessed.
Impact: Overall impression and ability to captivate or inspire viewers are evaluated.
Aesthetics: Visual appeal and quality are assessed.
Requirements for Virtual Finals:
- Written Abstract describing work.
- PowerPoint presentation.
Participants must submit high resolution images of their design together with their presentation.
No clip art, stock photos, or copyrighted materials.
- Pictures can be saved as a PDF document that must be sent to judges via Zoom Chat.
- Group submission is up to 3 participants.
- No theme for this category.
Requirements for Global Finals:
Participants must submit high resolution images of their design together with their presentation.
Entries must be the original work of the graphic designer(s).
The original copy of the work must be presented to the judges.
No clip art, stock photos, or copyrighted materials.
Abstract, Portfolio, Poster.
- Group submission is up to 3 participants.
- No theme for this category.