Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Unicorn Space Command is a brand new game, created by Martin Grant, 2nd year Games Technology Student at the University of the West of Scotland (that's right, there IS life outside Abertay). Martin took part in a recent games jam at UWS sponsored by Microsoft. Using Construct 2, an HTML5 games editor, he came up …
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We're always delighted to find out about a new company and working in and around Scotland's interactive sector. So please welcome Glasgow's Flipware and their first title, Cutant Mutant Invasion. The company was founded by former members of mobile development studios Tricast Media, creators of the first J2ME UI toolkit and Picsel Technologies, the developer …
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Zeds is a curious new game from the team at Chunk in Glasgow. Created in conjunction with Channel 4 Education, the game has been designed to teach teenagers about sleep in a fun, entertaining and unique way. Teenagers are often unaware that disturbed sleep patterns and a rough nights sleep, thanks to studying, exams, or …
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Edinburgh's GameVial is one of the best kept game development secrets in Scotland. The company has created over 100 games which until recently, were available exclusively through the company's own website. In 2012, GameVial started to release some of its new games through the Google Play store for Android smartphones and tablets. Now the company …
Edinburgh's Inceptional hit the headlines late last year, with their initial release Save Santi, as well as news that the company was not the Hollywood movie, Inception. Now Inceptional is back with its second title, Light Hero, a defiantly retro-styled shoot-em-up (or 'shmup' if you want to sound like you're down with the gamers...), out …
The inclusion of a naked, pole-dancing prince of the royal household has caused Tag Games' latest title Hotel Vegas to be banned in the UK, according to the Dundee-based developer. Tag's latest title is a celebrity gossip and scandal driven management game, in which players take control of a celebrity-packed Vegas hotel, in which the …
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Cobra's latest title in the hugely successful iBomber franchise is the top-down, dual-stick blitzkrieg-em-up, iBomber Attack. The game appeared on the Apple App Store at the end of last year. It's attracted a swarm of positive reviews and an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 on iTunes. Now Cobra has let slip the …
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As part of our partnership with the Game In Scotland event (taking place in Dundee on March 9th, at Fat Sams in Dundee, fact fans...) we're going running a series of company profiles of the develops, studios and companies who are exhibiting, speaking and taking part this year. To that end, we're proud to present, …
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Edinburgh's Blazing Griffin is hard at work on a reboot, remake, redux or reimagining on their turn-based space strategy game, Distant Star. The new version is due out in next next few months, but to help increase the galactic population and the audience for the game, the team at Blazing Griffin have made the original …
Dundee's premier fruit-based development studio, Binary Pumpkin has been enjoying a a great deal of success with their inaugural game, Pumpkin Bingo. The game's had over 50,000 downloads on Google play and has over 2000 ratings, averaging around 4.4 out of 5 stars. Now the studio has updated the game with a new seasonal version, …
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