TEENAGE boys are constantly being nagged to get off their computers but one Ardrishaig lad has taken his passion for gaming to the next level and been shortlisted for a games design award.
Calum McCartan has been shortlisted for a games design award.
Calum McCartan, 18, is a finalist in the BAFTA Young Game Designers Award hav ing designed the game, Space Drifter, in which gamers have to defeat waves of enemies and navigate an asteroid belt. Calum found out about the competition at school and set his mind to coming up with the perfect idea but all didn’t quite to plan as Calum explained. ‘It was de signed by accident. I was trying to design another game,’ he said.