Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Jamming isn’t the easiest of things. However you do it, undertaking a 48 hour journey to produce a game from conception to birth, isn’t easy and there are likely to be stumbling blocks along the way. The first of these is the brick wall that exhaustion causes. It’s just physically draining to work for long …
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The University of Glasgow's Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Instititute (HATII) has organised a half day symposium exploring the area of game-based learning and the use of off-the-shelf consumer games technology within an educational context. The symposium will feature three noted and high profile speakers who can provide insight into the rapidly evolving new area …
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Scotland has proven itself a pioneer once more. Cobra in Dundee made history yesterday by releasing the first commercially available software for the astounding Raspberry Pi computer. The company's critically acclaimed Storm In A Teacup title joined popular free software applications on the Pi Store, such as Libre Office and Asterisk, as well as freely …
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Cosmic Reactor is a new iPad title, currently in development by Interface 3, the educational games company based in Edinburgh. Cosmic Reactor has been designed for kids aged five upwards. The game promises to help push numeracy and literacy skills, as well as “an ensemble cast of quirky alien characters and fastest-finger reaction challenges. Multi-round gameplay will keep players …
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3MRT's Inquizitor range of apps, which teach stadard and GCSE subjects such as English, French, Biology, Maths and Physics hit the front page of the Apple App Store earlier this week, as one of the several 'Apps of the week', chosen by the App store staff. Inquizitor uses games technology and game-like experience to help …
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Readers of this blog, as clever and pretty as they undoubtedly are, may not have come across the Consolarium before. Describing itself as the 'Scottish Centre For Games & Learning', the Consolarium uses commercially available games - hardware and titles - within classrooms. Side stepping the serious games sector and instead looking at how to …
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