Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Inside Social Games has an exclusive interview with nWay, a new West Coast (as in USA) technology start-up created by names which will be familiar to many within the Scottish games industry. Tony Harman & Dave Jones are the CEO and CCO respectively, while COO Taehoon Kim ran Realtime's Seoul studio. nWay is working on …
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The Independent Game Developers Association, or TIGA to their chums (and it's pronounced 'tiger' - see the logo for confirmation) have announced the 2012 TIGA Awards. They're open for entries. Many entries are open to everyone, not just members. There are a huge range of categories covering everything from casual, social, online, debut, student and …
Ludometrics, as you may know, is an independent games company in Glasgow's rather cool Merchant City (the bit with the good pubs, restaurants and nice shops). We like Ludometrics. In the last year they've released Matching Set for iOS, football-based quiz title, Quizball and the forthcoming time management game, Pet Store Panic. They also created …
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CEO of Glasgow based WeeWorld, Celia Francis, is calling for members of the mobile development community to gather for some brekkie and discussion regarding marketing and the mobile app development world. The idea came to her after attending this year's highly successful Turing Festival, which discussed the importance of creating an entrepreneurial community that shared …
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A week ago, the second Turing Festival took place in Edinburgh. The inaugural event in 2011 was astonishingly good. Diverse, eclectic and expert, it pulled in speakers and participants from a huge range of disciplines and, almost uniquely, seemed to focus on a speaker's ability and knowledge, rather than job title or employer. I spent …
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You may remember that Scottishgames recently introduced Steve Hammond into the fray as a guest columnist, giving you insightful and surprising tidbits into the Scottish game industry's origins. We've also had the wonderful Phil Harris reporting from this year's Edinburgh Interactive, reporting the gig like you were actually there! Now we add a new guest …
Into the final speaker sessions with an almost filmic title. Users to Creators Starting with a discussion about using the market to create economic growth we have Bill Liao, CoderDojo (@liaonet) Ian Livingstone, Life President Eidos (@Ian_Livingstone), Ella Romanos, MD Remode Studios(@ella_romanos), and Ray Maguire, Interactive Opportunities. Introduced by Fred Hasson, who started the whole …
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Who need lunch, as we take you into the afternoon. Getting Above the Noise With more than 500,000 games and applications on Android, iPhone and other devices, players and developers both need a way to find each other. You’ll meet three companies; GREE, Flurry, and Tapjoy, who are creating global networks and tools for …
Yesterday Edinburgh Interactive closed, with a Dragons Den type affair; the idea concerning a pitch of a game or interactive experience to a panel of Ian Livingstone (Life President Eidos), Rob Woodward (CEO Scottish TV), Bill Liao (Co-founder coderdojo.com), Mark Phillips (Harbottle & Lewis) and chaired by Sean Dromgoole (GameVision/Some Research). The event was done …
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If you’re reading this, Dare will probably be in full swing already. if you’re yet to go though, allow me to get you in the mood by sharing what makes this year’s even so important. Prologue This is the third Protoplay I’ve attended in person. I first found out about it almost four years ago, …