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A HOTLY contested competition for first place at the 21st National Games Fleadh between Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) and the University of Limerick (UL), saw the latter edge out the hosts to take victory by the slightest of margins at the competition held on the TUS Tipperary Campus.

Games Fleadh 2024, the Games Design & Development competition, announced record attendance this year, as the best of the country's third-level student game developers came together to battle it out for 13 titles and the coveted Robocode competition.

First year programming students who participated in Robocode, were provided an opportunity to demonstrate their programming abilities and advance their knowledge of GUI programming, API usage and Artificial Intelligence.

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Those watching the Robocode 2024 competition were provided with a hotly contested, nail-biting final as it was won by UL’s Nathan Ndlovu, Lewis Ubebe, Maksims Gerkis, with TUS Thurles’s Toby Womack coming a close second.

TUS Moylish student Kamil Sibiga came third and fourth was SETU Carlow’s Darian Byrne, and Robert McGregor in this competition.

Meanwhile competitors, competing as teams, were asked to focus on the theme ‘Starting with Nothing” as they designed action-packed games to test their skills. In total 13 awards were given out in the competition.*

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