Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The Future Internet Games Competition launched today. Created by Disney and the Future Internet Consortium partners, in association with Abertay University, the competition is looking for experimental pervasive games that enable large groups of people to play together in the real world. Ideas for games making use of technologies such as augmented reality, blending real …
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Hunted Cow has established itself as an expert in the online role-playing game market and is now doing the same in the mobile strategy genre. The company's latest release is Tank Battle: East Front 1941. It's another title created in collaboration with strategy specialists HexWar and marks the studio's first collaboration with Lordz Games Studio, the company behind Panzer …
The recently created University of the West of Scotland Game Development Society recently held its first ever Game Jam. Taking place from 31st January - 2nd February 2014, the jam was organised by Martin Grant and Stephen Mcgroarty of the UWS Games Dev Society. The jam pulled in Computer Games Technology and Computer Games Development students …
After the incredulity, disbelief, shock, confusion, growing anger, dismissal, disdain, death threats and disappearance, followed by thousands upon thousands of words analysing and explaining away the unexpected success of Flappy Bird, the truth is that we still don't know the truth. We don't know why the game succeeded like it did. Why, out of the …
Ludometrics has been busy. The company is hard at work on its new PS Vita game, Bodycheck. The second part of the teams' developer diary is now live and online over on The Vita Lounge website. Ludometrics has also just announced that it's retro arena shooter Gridlock is now available for the new GameStick micro …
In 2013, the team at Stormcloud unleashed Mr Shingu's Paper Zoo, a brand new and original origami game, created for the latest generation of touch screen tablets and smartphones. The game allowed children, families and players of all ages to fold and create a whole menagerie of animals such as lions, pandas and hippopotamuses, before …
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Codefirst: Girls is a free part-time course for female students, which runs on university campuses. The aim of the project is to address the gender imbalance within the tech sector and the fact that less than 10% of tech startup founders are female. The organisation is partnering with TechCube to bring the programme to Edinburgh …
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Artists: Looking for a way to build your portfolio, or get your work out and into games? Got a whole stack of sprites you created for an old project which never got off the ground? Zapcoder, the Glasgow-based company which is creating an app which will allow anyone to build and create their own games …
Physicists, astronauts, quantum tunnelers, renegade cosmologists and evil galactic overlords, rejoice! Squares Of Black Space: Alpha Square, the new release from Pixel Sword, is out now. Now you can do battle with the very fabric of spacetime itself, hold back the darkness and ensure the universe, the multiverse, indeed, the WSOGMM continues to exist. The …
Made With Numbers, the Edinburgh-based independent development studio is back, with their new release Gem Zap. The game challenges players to zap matching gems with their Tesla coil. Zap three of a kind and additional time is granted. Zap 10 matching gems to reach the next level. You can see a sneak peek of the …
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