Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Denki Blocks! - the legendary game of yore. Multiple award winner, multiple platform encompasser and ultimate expression of sliding sticky blocks around a variety of environments in order to get them to bond in interesting shapes, has never really been away. It lives in the hearts of gamers everywhere and has untold legions of fans, …
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Tsumanga is a brand new game studio based in Glasgow. The company has been founded by Graeme Harvey and Elias Moubayed formerly of Huzutech. Tsumanga is focused on the creation of social and online massively-multiplayer games aimed at a younger audience of kids, tweens and teens. The company has signed a deal with Italy's Rainbow …
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The NEoN 2012 festival introduced a new event called Drop In And Play. They invited smaller developers to take their games along to the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre and let members of the public play with them. Denki Quartic Llama and Lucky Frame all joined in, as well as the Malta-based digital artist Pippin Barr. …
Rounding up the first week back at work in 2013, we have two stories highlighting the way the global video games market has changed - and how it promises to continue changing in 2013... First up, Minecraft. Every reader should, by now, be familiar with Mojang's LEGO-em-up. A combination of virtual world builder, role playing …
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Kicking off a year which promises to be a joy for networking, or a horrifying ordeal for agoraphobics, the meek and the more introverted developer, TIGA has announced its first developer event of the year will be held on Wednesday 23rd of January at Dukes Corner in Dundee. TIGA is promising a Stella line up …
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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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Please welcome a new development studio to your friendly, futuristic Scottish Games Network. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Binary Pumpkin. Alongside the appropriately awesome name, the company was founded by two veterans of the games business. Lol Scragg and Bruce McNeish were two of the founders of Cohort Studios and have worked on a …
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Bips! is a brand new game from Ludometrics, out now for Facebook. So far so vanilla you might be thinking, but hold those there horses, cowboys n' girls. This is no regular release. Bips! has a long and noble history, with a pedigree as long as Metal Gear Solid cut scene (one of our New …