With Devices For All, Ukie is asking the UK games industry to donate its old laptops and computers so they can be given a new home in schools up and down the country.
Devices For All Wants Your Old Tech
8-Bit Homebrew Bundle features Dundee’s Lowtek Games
Proof that no matter how strange your ideas are, there really is someone out there just like you, Lowteck’s Ally Low has announced that his modern NES game Flea is now available as part of 8-Bit Homebrew Bundle featuring three other anachronistic indie gems.
PlayAway: Dr Matthew Barr
“What is Game Studies?”, you might be asking. Well, luckily there’s a whole day of panels dedicated to that very question and much more at the PlayAway Festival, the first of which is chaired by our guest today, Dr Matthew Barr.
Videogame Jobs Scotland: February 2021
We’ve been on the blower to the country’s development studios, technology companies and employers and rounded up a steamy fresh batch of videogame job openings in Scotland.
SGN Podcast: If a Game Falls in the Forest…
SGN POD 004: Marketing - the oh so daunting but oh so important part of being a succesful games studio. Over the course of an hour, we try to give as much encouragement as we can to the Scottish games community to not feel intimidated by the prosepect of marketing their games. No one's going call you a sell out, we promise!
Weekly World News – 19/02/21
What’s that coming over the hill? Is it ten carefully curated pieces of news from across the videogames industry all gathered in one helpful location? Oh, what do you know, it is. Must be time for the Weekly World News already. What a treat.
Game Gurus: Publishing
It’s easier than ever to publish your own game thanks to accessible platforms like itch.io, the mobile app stores and Steam Direct. However, many independent developers still see value in signing publishing deals to get their games off the ground. Should small and/or young studios still be looking to make publishing deals, or are they better taking their future into their own hands?
SGN Podcast: Interview with Ally Low
BONUS INTERVIEW: Scotland's premier indie retro game developer Ally Low tells us about his tool to help dyslexic players in this bonus interview podcast.
SGN Podcast: What is a Podcast Anyway?
SGN POD 003: This week's episode is all rumination and preparation as we respond to your lovely feedback so far and hatch plans for world domination. We talk about the news (including the return of Games Master), our Facebook group and a little more about Dwerg Saga.
PlayAway: William Kavanagh
Why is it that some multiplayer games see an explosion of popularity at launch only to fizzle out six months later, while a select few seem to stick around indefinitely? William Kavanagh, who is a PhD student in Computer Science researching game balancing at the University of Glasgow, has a theory.