Students of the Digital Game Design program at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the European University of Lefke (EUL) won first place in the VAULT JAM game competition. The team composed of Duygu İrem El, Mehmet Kerim Artan, Berke Yaşar, and Erkan Berke Aksoy, expressed their happiness at seeing the impact of their education alongside their gaming skills through this achievement.

In the competition held under the theme “Before It Fades,” where a total of 20 teams from different universities participated, European University of Lefke students won first place with their game titled XENO CARDS.

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The team members stated that they developed a strategic card game in which players try to save the world from an alien invasion within 10 minutes. They explained that the game is based on placing the right card in the right position and making quick decisions, adding that they aimed to reflect the theme’s sense of “time running out” through the 10-minute gameplay duration.

The competition, a large-scale Game Jam that brought together students, programmers, designers, and creative producers interested in game development, took place over 48 hours in an environment where ideas were transformed into games and creativity and productivity were put to the test.

In the previous year, at the GAME JAM competition organized by ODTÜ KALTEV, a team composed of Digital Game Design students- including Duygu İrem El and Melaniya Dmitriyenko- and EUL Software Engineering students achieved first place.