Creative Scotland, the organisation which supports Scotland's arts, screen and creative industries has released its ten year plan for supporting and funding the country's cultural and creative sectors. The ten year plan and funding strategy has been put together with input from over 1000 participants drawn from the entire creative spectrum. Which, for the first time, …
Moray Game Jam: Sunday Morning
Two hours to go. Thus far there have been no meltdowns, no collapses, no screaming hysteria. In fact the whole of the first ever Moray Game Jam has been marked by remarkable levels of good humour, cooperation and calm. The teams are still working. The projects are, for the most part, looking good. Playable demos …
Inspiration Day
One of the major opportunities for games creators moving forward is the chance to work with and educate other areas of the creative industries. Film, television, music, literature and even the performing arts are all now looking seriously at games, apps and interactive media and wondering how to make it work for them. Thanks to …
€1.46Bn Creative Europe Opens, Calls For Games Projects
The European Parliament has approved the European Commission's new Creative Europe programme, with a budget of €1.46Bn over the next seven years. This is a 9% increase on current funding and is aimed at european culture, cinema, television, games, music, literature, performing arts, heritage and related areas. It also explicitly states that this funding is …
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Zapcoder Raises £75K From Creative Scotland
It's always gratifying to hear about projects in the interactive media sector which receive support from Creative Scotland. Yet it's surprising when the project in question is a technology company rather than a content creator. Even more surprising when it's a company we've not yet covered on the Scottish Games Network... Yesterday however, Zapcoder in …
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Cross Creative 2013 Now Open – You Need To Do This People…
Cross Creative is one of those amazing, unique and pioneering projects that you can't quite believe exists. It's supported by several major organisations including Channel 4, Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise and over the last several years, it has included participants from many of the country's leading game developers, animators, technology companies and creative studios. …
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Creative Scotland Announces New Chief Executive
After a year which could be charitably described as 'challenging' Creative Scotland, the public sector body created help Scotland's artistic, cultural and creative individuals, companies and organisations, has announced it has a new chief executive. Janet Archer, currently Director of Dance at Arts Council England, will take up her new role on 1 July 2013. …
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Sync Announces Its 2013 GEEKS IN RESIDENCE
Sync is a project which supports cultural organisations in Scotland, learn more about technology, come to love it, then take it back to the office/theatre/museum/loft space and do many interesting and exciting new things with it. As part of this remit, for the last several years Sync has placed a number of developers or technical …
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Intellectual Property: Use It Or Lose It, Buster…
Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) is a something vital to every creative company - and especially every games company. Developers are either working on someone else's IP, or building their own. For real, long-term success, generating your own IP is crucial. It provides your company with real, long-term value and can - in some cases - …
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BAFTA PLAY – Glasgow, May 8th…
BAFTA PLAY is the first EVER BAFTA Scotland games event. It's taking place on WEDNESDAY 8TH MAY at Glasgow Caledonian University's Saltire Centre, kicking off at 6:30pm. It gives visitors from the film, television and games industries, a chance to meet and see the winners of this year's BAFTA New Talent Awards and the Scottish …