Staking Claims is an original new game from Guerilla Tea - and there's a good chance you've already played it... The company tells us their inspiration for the game first appeared on a slot train to London. To pass the time, the team grabbed a notepad and pens and started playing an old game they remembered from …
Gamers Complete Six Months Of Cancer Research In One Month
Players of Guerilla Tea's Play to Cure: Genes In Space have completed six months worth of research in the month since the game was released. The amount of actual data is quite astonishing. According to Cancer Research UK: If this amount of DNA – tightly-coiled strings of genetic information – was unravelled it would stretch …
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FREE Game Soundtrack Pack – Get Your AudioSkin SFX NOW
In addition to be extraordinarily talented, the team at Euphonious are also extraordinarily generous. To celebrate the company's involvement in this year's Dare to be Digital competition, Euphonious is offering EVERY company the opportunity to download and use AUDIOSKINS sound effects, entirely free of charge. Visit the AudioSkins catalogue and browse/download to your heart's content... …
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Android Developers – Free Talk On Haptics
Peter van der Linden, Evangelist at Immersion, San Jose - creators and distributors of haptic effects for Android game developers, will be in Dundee on Monday 24th June. Peter told us: The focus of the talk will be a briefing on how Android game developers can easily add haptic effects to their games, using a free …
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Cobra Launches Massive Promotional Campaign With The Sun
The mark the fourth anniversary of iBomber, Cobra Mobile has launched a major promotional campaign with The Sun newspaper, giving away 50,000 copies of iBomber Defense Pacific, worth around £100,000. Readers of The Sun can visit the paper's website to pick up a promotional code, which will allow them to download the game for iOS. In …
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Unity: Now Free For Mobile Developers
While Microsoft's Xbox One reveal soaked up the headlines this week, another announcement from a games technology company could mean an awful lot more to Scotland's game development community (and it is a community). Unity is the development platform of choice for a growing number of studios, as it allows a game to be developed …
FREE LIGHT HERO!
Inceptional's Light Hero is FREE for one week only. Yes, until May 27th, you can pick up Light Hero - for no money whatsoever - for your iPhone, Mac or PC. If you complete the game, you could even win up to $100,000... Light Hero is a retro style arcade space shooter where the goal …
Going Global: Learn About Localising
It's a big wide world out there, kids. Many countries now enjoy videogames and a number of markets, have huge - and we're talking enormous - audiences. Yet many game developers don't support these markets and don't publish their games in anything other than good old-fashioned English. This can be a problem. It limits your …
GameVial Brings Games To Chrome Store
Edinburgh's GameVial is one of the best kept game development secrets in Scotland. The company has created over 100 games which until recently, were available exclusively through the company's own website. In 2012, GameVial started to release some of its new games through the Google Play store for Android smartphones and tablets. Now the company …
One Day Digital – Development Workshops – Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow & Edinburgh
NESTA (the National Endowment For Science Technology and the Arts - but you knew that...) is holding a series of events across Scotland, designed to help young people (kids aged 13+) to access new technology, digital media and interactivity. One Day Digital gives participants the chance to experiment with, play with and explore a variety …
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