A TEAM of games development students at Wrexham Glyndwr University are targeting success at a national talent development programme.

The team, Silent Yeti, have been selected for the only UK-wide summer talent development programme, Tranzfuser Enterprise Pathway.

They will now receive a £5,000 grant and are competing against other teams across the UK for a further £20,000 funding pot later this year.

Running for its sixth year, and Glyndwr’s fifth consecutive year of being selected, the 10 week competition offers unique learning, networking and funding opportunities for those who aspire to secure a career in the sector and aims to improve and build upon participants entrepreneurial and business development skills.

Alongside their team members, each group will receive support from members of the UK Games Fund community of professional games developers who can coach and mentor the groups to reach their fullest potential.

The team is made up of Will Rogers, project lead, Riley Penrose, programmer, Charlie Rayworth, technical artist, Shane West, artist, Alex Jones, animator and Owen Jones, sound designer.

Led by Will, Silent Yeti is now working to develop and enhance ‘A Couple of Cubes’ which is a co-op puzzle game where two cubes must put their differences aside and learn to work together.

Will said: “With Tranzfuser, you start your own studio as a team, and that’s something that we all wanted and we all continue to push towards.

“It took about a week to get the applications ready, show off the game, and we’ve finished our bootcamp.”

Fellow team member Riley said: “You have to find the drive to go and do it.

“The past week has been really focused on networking and giving us the people to talk to and what they do and how they can help us.

“To now have the chance to work full-time as a studio, we’re really excited to get going.”

Glyndwr University’s Senior Lecturer in Computing, Richard Hebblewhite said: “We’re really proud of Will and his team for producing some outstanding work this year during what continues to be a challenging time for students all around the country.”