Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Develop, the UK's most popular game developer event game development conference is leaving its Brighton home for a one-day event, Develop: North, which takes place in Liverpool. Develop: North takes place on November 14, 2024, at The Spine in Liverpool. Develop has become a mainstay on the UK game industry calendar and takes place in …
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The Rubber Keyed Wonder - a new feature-length documentary about the legendary Sinclair Spectrum - is coming to the DCA in Dundee for its Scottish premiere on Sunday 24th November 2024. Book now In the late 1970s, British inventor Sir Clive Sinclair envisioned creating an affordable home computer that could change the world. In 1982, …
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What is Esports? Scottish Esports, in partnership with the University of the West of Scotland, is holding the inaugural Scottish Esports in Education Mini-Conference 2024 (#SEEMC2024). This new annual event plans to establish a new network of esports and games educators from across Scotland sharing best practice and understanding of the role competitive video games …
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The Scottish games industry is growing, and its continued success hinges on a strong pipeline of skilled graduates. The 3rd annual Scottish Games Education Symposium, on November 27th, 2024, offers a unique - FREE - platform for game developers to collaborate with educators and shape the future of games education in Scotland. Why Attend The …
UPDATED (28/10/24)!! Barclays is offering a full and fun-packed day of games at the 2024 Scottish Games Frenzy, which takes place in their Glasgow HQ on October 31st and celebrates the incredibly talented Scottish and UK games businesses. The Games Frenzy is an opportunity to showcase your games, meet other developers, network with friends, peers …
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OUT NOW. Game Economy Design: Metagame, Monetization And LiveOps: is a new textbook exploring how to design, implement and deliver a viable and successful economy within videogames written by Scottish author Charles Lees-Czerkawski. The book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of game economy design. It begins with a high-level overview of the key …
Steven Mair Becomes The UK's First Gamer-in-Residence After Games for the Weans Campaign Raises Over £100,000 Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity (GCHC), in conjunction with partners Devolver Digital and Neonhive, is delighted to appoint (the awesome) Steven Mair as its first-ever GCHC Gamer-in-Residence role at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, the first full-time role of …
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532 Design Limited, a new games studio based in Dundee, has launched a beta test for its groundbreaking fantasy sports mobile game, Crowd Legends™. The studio, founded by Brian McNicoll, a veteran of the gaming industry and former founding team member of Dynamo Games, along with Simon Fraser, COO and experienced startup expert, is set …
The BFI Innovation Challenge Fund has announced the first four projects to receive funding towards creating solutions which tackle the UK screen sector’s most critical challenges - including a project supported by Scotland's Games Jobs Live. The area of focus for the fund’s first round is the UK video games industry which is facing a …
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A global network of video game developers and academics attended the two-day Gaming Clusters Across Multiple European Regions (GAME-ER) research and networking event in Dundee last week. Delegates from Lyon and Bordeaux in France, Turin in Italy, Fundão in Portugal and Brno in the Czech Republic joined academics from Abertay University and developers from the Dundee games …