Dare, Ireland and Northern Ireland
Ireland and Northern Ireland have been involved in Dare since 2004.
In 2004, Red Ruckus was comprised of three second year animation students from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and two fourth year computer applications students from Dublin City University. Their game was a third-person puzzle game set in 1950's America. See the 2004 showcase.
In 2005, representing the Republic of Ireland were Team Doom, comprised of four final year games design and development students from Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE) and one fourth year graduate of Dundalk Institute of Technology's computer science programme. Their game was an online mulitplayer racing game. See the 2005 showcase.
Representing Northern Ireland were Silver Tongue Software, comprised of five students from the North West Institute of Further and Higher Education with Animation, Modelling, Design, Music and Coding skills. Their game was a music driven fantasy adventure. See the 2005 showcase.
In 2006, representing Northern Ireland were Rule of Thumb, comprising two programmers and three artists from the North West Institute of Further and Higher Education. Their visually rich story-driven action/adventure game with platform and puzzle elements won this team a number of prizes at Dare. See the 2006 showcase.
Enduring Fragments represented the Republic of Ireland, comprising four final year games design and development students at BCFE and one computational physics student from Trinity College Dublin. Their game was a supernatural crime thriller set in 1900's London. See the 2006 showcase.
2007 was the first year that Dare was hosted in other locations, other than just Scotland. Queens University in Belfast became a host centre for the summer, hosting Northern Irish team Bathroom Buccaneers and Irish team Heaven2Ocean. Bathroom Buccaneers were 3 Computing Science students and 1 Computer Games Development student from the University of Ulster and 1 Modelling student from NWIFHE. Their game saw players becoming the captain of a mini Pirate Galleon - in a bathtub, dodging soap-bergs and shampoo bottles! H2O: Heaven2Ocean were the team representing the Republic of Ireland and were 3 Multimedia students from Dublin City University and 2 Games Development students from Carlow Institute of Technology. This 2D puzzle platformer tested reaction times and skills in logical thinking as you tilted the world in order to guide a body of water through levels filled with hazards and obstacles. This team were one of the six finalists at Dare ProtoPlay. Play both games here.