CBBC Pup Stars nominated for a BAFTA!

Brass donned our best posh frocks and took on the best in kids' interactive entertainment at the recent 2011 Children's BAFTAs.

We were pleased as punch when we found out that Pup Stars, a music game we created for CBBC, had been nominated in the Interactive category. The game features CBBC's broom cupboard heroes Hacker & Dodge T Dog as they form a band to appear at 'Wigan's Dead Talented'.

We create a lot of bespoke music at Brass and interactive music is a bit of a speciality - any excuse to play electric guitars really! In this case though, we were inventing our own instruments with the pups playing, among other things, a sausage phone, a mouse organ and the armpit trumpet.

As well as writing and recording all the music, we wrote and directed the script and devised a game that really shows off the comedy genius of the puppeteers and is great fun to play. It's also a bit of a coup for digital storytelling, taking the dogs into a brand new interactive narrative written exclusively for the web.

The ceremony was on the 27th November at the London Hilton on Park Lane and our competitors for the BAFTA included; the amazing Moshi Monsters, Ladybird Books' beautifully illustrated The Land of Me and Aardman/Fallon's creation, also for CBBC, the Tate Movie Project.

"And the winner is... "

Sadly, Brass and Pup Stars didn't prove triumphant. Congratulations to the Tate Movie Project!

See our CBBC Pup Stars case study for more details of the project.