The countdown is on until the computer games festival Dare ProtoPlay boots up in Dundee.
The three-day festival is a culmination of nine weeks of intense games development by students from around the world, all competing for a BAFTA.
All 15 student games will be on show this weekend for the public to play and then vote on.
Opening the event will be David Braben, who is recognised worldwide as an innovator in the industry.
He co-created Elite, the first true 3D game, with Ian Bell in 1982 and also founded Frontier Developments.
The festival includes new games from top companies including Cobra Mobile, Crytek, Digital Goldfish, Outplay Entertainment and Tag Games.
There will also be fun and games outside in the City Square throughout the weekend.
Dare ProtoPlay is organised and run by Abertay University and supported by Intel and other sponsors.’Genuinely life-changing’Dr Louis Natanson is academic director of the Institute for Arts, Media and Computer Games at Abertay.
He said, “This weekend is a great moment in the continuing growth of the computer games industry in Dundee.
“Abertay University’s Dare To Be Digital contest has grown and grown, attracting the very best young computer game designers from all over the world to compete for a BAFTA that is unique to our competition.
“To have the opportunity to build a game, get advice from world-leading companies and put your game on show to the public at the beginning of your career is a genuinely life-changing opportunity.”
He added, “The games are great fun for kids and parents, gamers and non-gamers.
“Everyone should really come down to the Caird Hall in Dundee this weekend as Dare ProtoPlay is going to be fantastic fun.”
The event has previously been part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe but this year it is coming home to Dundee, bigger than ever before.
The festival is free and runs from Friday to Sunday in the Caird Hall and City Square.