UDomain Fully Supports “Hong Kong Digital Game Development Competition 2010”

 

Digital games are becoming an important part of teenagers’ life. Yet most of them have only experienced the playing part and not the design and development process. To encourage the youth's can develop logical thinking, critical thinking and problem solving skills. UDomain has given full support & sponsored the " Hong Kong Digital Game Development Competition 2010 ".

 

Hong Kong Digital Game-based Learning Association, Hong Kong Cyberport and Pak Kau College, together with over 30 co-organizers and supporting organizations, organize the Hong Kong Digital Game Development Competition 2010. With the theme “Smart life, Smart city, Smart Hong Kong”, we encourage people from different aspects of the society to, through digital games, with innovative and human-oriented concepts, express their creativity in a rational and harmonious way. This is to unfold Hong Kong’s animated character, to share the intelligent technology among people from different levels in the society and most importantly, to realize the goal of being “city of China, metropolitan of the world”.

 

Objectives：

 

•Encourage and promote the use of innovative technology to primary and secondary school students;

 

•Promote independent learning skills and attitudes among secondary and primary school students;

 

•Improve students’ organisation skills and logical thinking through digital game design;

 

•Improve the sense of self-learning among students and thus their independent thinking and problem solving skills;

 

•Raise students’ learning motivation by applying digital game-based learning in secondary and primary schools;

 

•Strengthen the interaction among digital game design professionals, educationists and every one else in the society and so to raise the expertise in the field.

 

Eligibility：

 

•Junior and Senior groups:each primary and secondary school can register two teams at most, which should be leaded by a teacher

 

•Open group:each participant can only submit one game

 

•All participating teams must posses the proper right to use the software/tools for their game design and development

 

•Participants are welcome to use any open source or proprietary software and system that they choose for the game design and development process as long as the end product can be run within a web browser. We reserve the right to the final decision.

 

•Copyright of the submitted works belongs to the participant; we reserve the right to use the submitted works for public exhibition and online voting.

 

•We reserve the right to the final decision regarding to the eligibilities of the participants and the results of the competition.

 

Categories：

 

•Junior group (primary and junior secondary students)

 

•Senior group (senior secondary students)

 

•Open group (anyone interested)

 

For details on the competition, please visit http://www.hkdes.asia/gdc/chi/index.php?page=1

 

Apart from support to educational institutes, we are now providing sponsor web hosting service to Charities & Non-Profit Organizations for them to spread their spirit through the Internet.

 

For details on sponsorship, please feel free to contact us by email at sales@udomain.com.hk or phone at (852) 2554 7545.