Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
We are entering the final week of preparations for the Hello World! Startup Summit, taking place on 2nd March at the University of Glasgow ARC. With over 125 delegates now registered, the event is approaching a total sell-out. The summit is designed to provide the commercial understanding required to build a sustainable games business in …
In response to the ongoing wave of layoffs, redundancies and studio closures across the UK games sector, the Scottish Games Network (SGN) is today opening its Hello World! Startup Summit to industry professionals currently affected. The event, taking place on March 2nd at the University of Glasgow ARC, has already seen over 100 registrations from …
UWS Retro Games Room: Lecturing staff and students on the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development programme at University of the West of Scotland have introduced a retro games room designed to enhance the student experience, wellbeing and belonging. In the Computer Games Development programme, students are given the chance to engage with a wide variety …
y's GI Live Academy is a free, digital-only event for students across the UK, that takes place in Discord from October 27th - 29th, giving insight into careers in the games industry.
The UWS Game Dev Fusion showcase will give students a chance to show off their hard work to potential employers and network with like-minded people in the games community.
Entries have opened for the 2021 #RaiseTheGameJam, which challenges student teams from across the UK to create games focused on diversity & inclusion.
Connecting Scotland's Colleges & Universities. Are you studying - or teaching - videogames in Scotland? There's a new Discord channel for students and lecturers involved in videogames courses across Scotland
The Scottish Games Network, Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise are working together to produce the first ever entirely comprehensive survey of Scotland's games industry.
Students, Dare teams, game jammers, new developers - this is your chance to win a BAFTA. The BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards is open to people releasing their first game. It can be on any platform and come from almost any source, be it a game jam, a university project, or a new developer's first …
Friday marked the launch of the 2015 Moray Game Jam, which is taking place at Moray College in Elgin. Not only does this make the jam the most northerly in the whole United Kingdom, it marks the return of one of the friendliest, most collaborative events in the gaming calendar. This year's competition has pulled …