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Bafta Young Game Designers: Meet the children up for a gaming award
Bafta have unveiled the talented finalists who have been selected for this year's Young Game Designers (YGD) event is in its 15th year and 52 young people - aged between 12 and 18 - have been chosen by top industry experts to take competition celebrates and encourages young people to create, develop and present their ideas for winners ceremony will be live-streamed on Bafta's YouTube channel, on Wednesday 18 June.
How does the Young Game Designers award work?
The awards are split into two categories - the Game Concept Award, for a written idea for a new game, and the Game Making Award, for a game made using computer are two awards available for each category, for young people aged 10 to 14 and another for those aged between 15 to winners are chosen by a jury of industry professionals who are looking for well thought-out game ideas and impressive use of coding.
In the 10-14 Game Concept Category, 12-year-old Arabelle is among the game, titled Reef Revival, involves players helping a character - called Spongy - rediscover his home after a terrible needs to collect valuable items on the way to revive the coral that surrounds him. Arabelle says that she was inspired by the environment, and that she wanted to make the game "fun and exciting, while teaching the importance of protecting marine life".
Meanwhile in the 10-14 Game Making Category, Daniel's space themed adventure is one of the shortlisted game called 'Planet Drop' is all about creating the ultimate drop planets to merge them into ever bigger celestial bodies, trying to create a supermassive planets combine to form new planets, and players need to make their drops in the right places to ensure they don't block winning games will be displayed at the Power Up exhibition at the Science Museum in London, the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester and at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford in June.
