An Abertay team has triumphed in the UK-wide finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in London.
The Imagine Cup is a student competition in which teams of up to four members design and build new technology projects.
Team Terrabite won the Imagine Cup’s People’s Choice vote as well as the overall competition in the games category with the puzzle, Project Cyber.
Another Abertay team, Radication Games, also made it to the final.
Lewis Doran from Team Terrabite said: “When the games category winner was announced, saying we were surprised would be an understatement.
“There was total shock from all of us involved due to the strong competition attending this event.
“The next step for us is to compete against the other winners from the innovation and citizenship categories.
“We will have to prepare another presentation that we will submit for judging.
“If successful we will be going to Seattle to compete in the world finals.
“This is a closely-watched competition by key people in the industry and is fantastic exposure for the team, the project and Abertay University.
“As such, we believe this has a massively positive effect on our future prospects.”
Professor Louis Natanson, head of the school of arts, media and computer games at the university, said: “Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is a very prestigious competition, and to have two Abertay teams taking part in the UK finals is an incredible achievement.
“Radication Games and Team Terrabite have both developed very original gaming ideas which creatively use different Microsoft technologies ranging from the Kinect motion sensor to integrated console and mobile experiences.
“My colleagues, Dr Iain Donald and Dr Karen Meyer, deserve credit too for the major role they’ve played in guiding these exceptional students to the UK finals.
“We wish them all the very best as they compete for a chance to represent the UK in the world finals.”
The winners of national finals have a chance of competing at the world finals in Seattle in July 2015.
The ultimate winning team will receive a prize of $50,000.
Abertay was ranked in the world’s best 25 universities to study game design, the only university in Europe to be featured in the annual Princeton Review list.