Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Now in its sixth year, the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival is one of Scotland's most diverse cultural events, covering everything from music, film and visual art to theatre, dance, and literature. The annual festival takes place in venues across Scotland throughout October, aiming to support the arts and challenge preconceived ideas about …
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Following over a year of email campaigns and fan requests, the coveted video-game film epic finds a home in Scotland's original game making hub. Indie Game: The Movie follow's the story of the makers of Fez, Super Meat Boy and a handful of other people who dedicate their work to the creation of their own …
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The team at Serious Parody are living up to their name. Â The serious part anyway. Â The company has just released the latest major update to its popular Wrestling Manager game. Version 1.0.8 is now in open BETA, while the company updates and tweaks the latest additions, based on player feedback. Â A full public release will …
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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This weekend is the third annual Sick Kids Save Point charity gaming marathon.  The event sees nearly 50 dedicated gamers across the country devoting an entire weekend to gaming, with the goal of raising money for the Edinburgh Sick Kids Foundation. First held in 2010, Sick Kids Savepoint has so far raised over £30,000 and …
Eurogamer has posted an in-depth article on the history and evolution of Denki. Â It's well worth reading and comes recommended... It's a familiar enough story. A small group of idealistic developers jumps off the A-list hamster wheel and sets up on their own, eager to get away from the big budget grind. They want to …
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young game designer, in possession of a good idea, tends to do nothing with it. Â Ever. Â Except in the pub, when they moan to friends that they can't get funding, that games don't make money these days and that now they've mentioned it aloud, it will be …
If there's one indie game we've been looking forward to over the last several months, it's Gears Of Glory. Â A technical top-down racer, the game offers players a more challenging experience than the normal zoomy, drivey, drifty type of arcade game. The handling needs to be learned, man. Â You need to spend some time figuring …
Ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, you are currently reading Scotland's most up-to-date accurate and, well, only source of news and information for the Scottish games industry. We've been told independently by many of the organisations, groups and governmental initiatives here in Scotland, that they use the Scottishgames' Company Directory as the primary source …