Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Attention audio professionals. Music Gateway is an online portal, which gives musicians a portal to the rest of the creative world. This allows game developers, film makers, animators and others to find musicians for projects, as well as giving the musicians a showcase for their talents. If you're an audio professional - freelance or part of …
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Over on Bleeding Cool, official friend of the Scottish Games Network, Phil Harris has written an excellent summary of the weekend's Edinburgh Game Symposium. Rather than rewrite, or steal big chunks and pretend we're being creative, you can read the first part of Phil's summary here and then click through to find the rest on Bleeding Cool. …
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Some of the best developers, composers and sound designers from the global gaming industry will congregate in Edinburgh this weekend for the Edinburgh Game Symposium 2.0 (EGS). With two full days of presentations, workshops, discussions and performances focusing on the latest in games development, games music & audio, EGS is shaping up to be a …
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There's a chance you've not come across Scotland's Go North festival before. It has its roots in music, but has grown over the last several years to become the country's first event to incorporate all of the creative industries. In 2013, Go North featured a single speaking slot, introducing interactive media and video games to the wider …
Some of the best developers, composers and sound designers from the global gaming industry will congregate in Edinburgh on Fri 27th & Sat 28th June for the Edinburgh Game Symposium 2.0. There will be two full days of presentations, workshops, discussions and performances focusing on the latest in games development, games music & audio. The event builds on …
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 …
That was fun... Game In Scotland took place on Saturday afternoon. This year's event moved out of the grim and slightly sticky Fat Sam's nightclub, which had been its home for the last eight years and moved it into the spring sunshine in Abertay University's brand new games centre of excellence. The 2014 Game In …
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Saturday March 1st is the date. Dundee is the location. Game In Scotland is back for 2014 - bigger and better than ever before. This year's GIS offers something for everyone - whether you're looking for a job, starting your own company, working on a new project, or looking for advice from industry experts. Funded …
It's official, GTA V has done rather well. In addition to breaking all sort of Guinness world records, the game was the best-selling release in 2013, breaking Call Of Duty's four year run at the top spot. It was also revealed that the game made more in its first month than the entire global music …
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Denki is not a studio to sit around, rubbing their chins and wondering what on earth to do next. Indeed the company has been more prolific in the last few months than seems right or decent. From Save The Day, Denki Word Quest and Monster Force 5, Denki has been working with the mighty Moshi …
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