The cross-party group on videogames technology was started in early 2012 by MSP Joe Fitzpatrick. The group met in March that same year - while GDC was on - yet still attracted a standing room only crowd, to hear from speakers including Denki's Colin Anderson, Scottish Enterprise and TIGA. The group's initial meeting was more …
Digital 2013 – Connecting Scotland’s Digital And Creative Industries
Digital 2012 appeared on Scotland's event scene last year, promising to connect the country's digital and creative sectors. Held in Glasgow's SECC, Digital 2013 offered a mixture of workshops, speakers, exhibitors and networking. It was a diverse and interesting day, which encompassed speakers from TV broadcasters, major retailers, art galleries, major software providers and Dr …
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Creative Scotland Open Sessions – Your Editor Speaks
After a year which can best be described as 'challenging', Creative Scotland, the organisation tasked with supporting, promoting and helping Scotland's creativity is holding a number of 'open sessions' which will "encourage open debate on Creative Scotland and its place in a healthy and thriving future for the arts, screen and creative industries." The open …
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Dare To Be Digital 2013 – The World’s Biggest Game Creation Competition – Now Open For Entries
Dare to be Digital is BACK for 2013. If you're a regular visitor to the Scottish Games Network, then you'll know we're big fans of the competition (disclaimer: the good people at Dare regularly ask your editor to get involved in some way(s) - speaking, presenting, mentoring or hosting the awards. We're very proud...) Dare …
2012 in review
How was your 2012? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Inexplicably awesome? We may never know (unless you kept your friendly neighbourhood Scottish Games Network up to date with the latest, greatest news, releases and updates). The Scottish Games Network did quite well, thank you. Lots of new views, lots of new friends, lots of great interest. The …
Denki Nominated In Creative Scotland Scotland Awards
The 2012 Creative Scotland awards has come in for some criticism in recent weeks. We kicked off, asking why digital media and interactive entertainment had no categories, alongside more traditional areas such as film, television, music and literature. Then the rest of the country had a go, wondering why the judging panel was exclusively male, …
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Creative Scotland Awards 2012 – Decision Time
It emerged a few weeks ago that the 2012 Creative Scotland Awards had categories for film, TV, music, performing arts but games, interactive entertainment and digital media had been neglected. We've since had several conversations with representatives from Creative Scotland who have gone some way to explaining why games didn't appear in the awards. Put …
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Scottish Government Responds To Creative Industries Report
It's been a tumultuous and busy 24 hours. News of the research into Scotland's creative industries has spread throughout the global games sector and into the mainstream media... Now, the Scottish government has been in touch to tell us that they know it's wrong and they're working on better figures and more reliable information. Here's …
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No Revenue, No Value, No Students – Videogames Sector In Scotland Doesn’t Exist
Yesterday we reported that the digital media and interactive sectors had been inexplicably omitted from the 2012 Year of Creative Scotland awards. Today the reason may have become a little clearer. The games industry in Scotland does not exist in any significant way. It contributes nothing to the economy, there are only 200 people working …
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Games Have No Place In A Creative Scotland
2012 has been the Year of Creative Scotland. A nation wide celebration of creativity which highlights all of the amazing talent, the clever businesses and the dedicated organisations we have here in Scotland. Unless you work in digital media. The recently announced Creative Scotland awards have categories for film and television, literature, music, theatre - …
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