Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
WeeWorld is reviving it's Glasgow Mobile Breakfast meetups after a brief hiatus, opening it's conference room doors to a roundtable of developers and mobile businesses for discussion and debate on the stuff that matters to them. Past attendees, who have come from as far as Edinburgh and Dundee, will be familiar with the no holds …
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Lucky Frame is back - with a brand new game. After the awards, amazing reviews, nominations, plaudits, acclaim and general awestruck wonder that the company's previous title, Bad Hotel picked up, Lucky Frame has refused categorically to rest upon it's rainbow-hued laurels. The steely-eyed outfit has instead forced it's development gnomes back down the software …
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Scotland's official specialist gaming media got a little bit larger this week, as the Gamer Show Podcast on the British Tech Network, got in touch to say hello. It's a fortnightly show from the Scottish borders, hosted by three dedicated gamers who talk about that latest news, releases and events in the wide, wide world …
Euphonious is rapidly becoming the busiest interactive audio company in Scotland. The studio, formed by Raymond Usher (ex DMA Design/Realtime Worlds) provided sounds for some of the recent releases mentioned on the Scottish Games Network, including Cobra's Danger Derby and Outplay's Bubble Blaze, but has also contributed a serious amount of work to the new …
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One problem which has plagued the evolution of music is the almost complete lack of instruments which can be played solely with the nose. Aside from the Polynesian Nose Flute (and arguably the drums) there are few dedicated instruments which don't leave the player concussed, bleeding and broken. Plus the nose flute, if you think …
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Moops is a brand new game for iOS which is out NOW. Today in fact. We've mentioned Moops in the past, when Tahir, the MD of Red Radiant, gave the world a sneak preview of Moops at the Game In Scotland event. We were excited then. Now, the completed game looks fabulous. As you'd expect …
Following hot on the heels of the excellent interview with Reloaded Productions, the mighty VentureBeat has now covered Euphonious' new AudioSkins idea for Sonic Logos... Scottishgames.net even gets a tip of the hat as the source. We're very proud.
One of the companies we were massively impressed by at the recent Engage-Invest-Exploit event in Edinburgh was Speech Graphics. Their technology, which synchronises lip movement with recorded speech is simply the best we've seen. To the extent that all of the Xbox 360 and PS3 games we played over the following weeks looked almost embarrassing …
Like the cat flap, onions and gravity, the greatest inventions are simple and obvious once you see them. 'Why?' you wonder, 'didn't I think of that first?' Chances are you were tagging chums on Facebook, or queuing for chips. Thankfully however, there are clever, creative people out there who are making these obvious things real …
A huge thanks to the team at The Masques for our recent banner. The Masques is a casting agency based in Edinburgh, which works with a wide range of actors (proper actors from film and TV). They also do a lot of corporate work, providing talented people who can do voices and act in other …
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