Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Three of Scotland's most experienced game developers have set up a new game development studio based in Dundee. Stormcloud Games has been launched by Frank Arnot, Andy West and Pat McGovern, who between them have over 50 years of development experience and have launched 45 games, covering almost every genre and platform, including Minecraft (XBLA), …
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The 2012 Creative Scotland awards has come in for some criticism in recent weeks. Â 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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The Scottish Game Jam is a 48 hour game development marathon which takes place every January, as part of the larger Global Game Jam, which pulls in teams and individuals over over the world, competing to make a new game in only two days. Scotland's Game Jam has taken place in Glasgow Caledonian University for …
Calamity Falls is one of those sleepy little towns which seems untouched by the ravages of time. Â Everybody knows their neighbours, they always take time to say good morning, gap-toothed freckled kids riding bikes, will take the time to help an elderly lady cross the road, and the local Mom & Pop store always have …
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The Mobile World Congress is the largest, most comprehensive conference/expo in the world, focusing on mobile technology, content and business. Â It takes place in Barcelona in February. Â It's also incredibly useful, entirely different to the games events you may have been to and is located in one of the most astonishing exhibition venues in the …
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Battle Dungeon is a brand new multiplayer, turn-based strategy game, from the team at Hunted Cow. Battle Dungeon offers a level of depth and complexity normally associated with PC-based strategy games, but optimised and designed for the latest generation of iOS devices - iPads, iPhones and iPods. The game allows players to put together a …
Word Crasher, the game which manages to combine Scrabble, Tetris and dropping Mentos with all letters on, into Coke, has been revised, updated and  polished to a mirror sheen by Edinburgh-based indie powerhouse and one man dynamo of Wonder, Pixels On Toast (aka Kevin Ng). Word Crasher now reflects the beauty and integrity of Kevin's …
If his cultural references seem old, it's because he was frozen in carbonite for a bit. Gangnam style is still beyond him... Some time ago, 2K's Christoph Hartmann, in an article with Games Industry.biz, talked about future consoles. He expressed the opinion that photorealism is the way forward. Games lack proper emotions and this is the only …
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It's the start of awards season in the games world. Â From now until Christmas, an array of glittering and glamorous awards ceremonies will be taking place across the length and breadth of the UK, as various organisations hand out a variety of trophies, awards, gongs, certificates and other endorsements, to game developers, publishers and associated …
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Scottish Development International is the enterprise organisation which is responsible for overseas business and inward investment. Â This is the organisation which is responsible for Scotland's participation in overseas conferences, expos and trade shows. SDI has supported the games industry a great deal over the last 10+ years and Scotland has a presence at many of …
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