Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The Digital and Creative Clyde Launchpad competition, was launched in January by the UK's innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board, in a partnership with Creative Clyde. The launchpad was created to accelerate the expansion of digital and creative businesses and help develop the growing community of creative businesses in Glasgow. The competition was open to SMEs …
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The FREE early bird entry to the BAFTA Scotland awards Games category closes tomorrow (July 17th). So this is the LAST CHANCE to get your game into the awards and compete for a BAFTA. Your colleagues, peers and competitors are already entering. This could be the year which the GAMES category becomes THE breakthrough success …
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The 2013 BAFTA Scotland awards are now open for entries. The competition is open to entries from the film, television and games sectors in Scotland and this year's competition could see the games category overtaking the more established categories for the first time. Research by the Scottish Games Network indicates at least 50 games released …
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The initial line-up, keynote speakers and partners for the 2013 Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay festival have all been announced... Dare ProtoPlay games festival, Dundee City Centre, 8th-11th August The UK’s biggest indie games festival will feature speakers from Channel 4, National Theatre of Scotland and the V&A, the University of Abertay Dundee announced today. …
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IT has begun. Dare to be Digital 2013, the games design and development competition for students is now LIVE in the city of Dundee. Fifteen teams from all around the world have come together for the next nine weeks to build a new and original game, before demonstrating it in front of thousands of families, …
The V&A Museum "the world's greatest museum of art and design" has appointed its first ever Game Designer In Residence. It's someone who may be familiar to Scottish Games Network readers. Sophia George is (deep breath now), a former Abertay Student, the chair of SwallowTail Games (creator of Tick Tock Toys), which is a Dare to …
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Light Hero, the deep space shoot-em-up, created by Edinburgh's Inceptional, is having an exciting week. The game's price point has just dropped - you can now pick the game up for £0.69 (0.99 US$ | 0.99 CAD | 0.79 € | 85 ¥ | 0.99 AU$)But that's not all. In a move bold enough for …
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The Courier, independent broadsheet of note for the globally acknowledged tech cluster of Dundee has teamed up with accountancy wizards Henderson Loggie has launched a Business Awards competition, aimed at companies operating within it's 'patch' of Dundee, Tayside, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Angus, Perthshire and Means (look it up). The competition is aimed at finding local businesses …
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Dundee's YoYo Games, the company behind the Game Maker development software has launched a competition to reward developers creating games for Windows 8. If you're not familiar with Game Maker, it's a simple development platform, which allows anyone from the age of around 9 to build games, without having to know how to code, or …
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BAFTA PLAY is the first EVER BAFTA Scotland games event. It's taking place on WEDNESDAY 8TH MAY at Glasgow Caledonian University's Saltire Centre, kicking off at 6:30pm. It gives visitors from the film, television and games industries, a chance to meet and see the winners of this year's BAFTA New Talent Awards and the Scottish …