The teams at Hunted Cow, Moray College and Screen HI are collaborating to create what is believed to be the most northerly game jam ever to take place in the United Kingdom. The 48 hour Moray Game Jam takes place on March 14th-16th, at Moray College in Elgin. It's open to teams of 2-5 people …
Ruffian’s ‘Game Of Glens’ Needs You
Towards the end of 2013 we heard about the latest project underway at Ruffian Games in Dundee. Tribal Towers was the company's first indie project, a new and original game, in which players built their own armoured and armed towers, while trying to destroy their opponent's. Then it went quiet. Ruffian slipped back into stealth …
Game In Scotland 2014
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 …
Jam On!
The Global Game Jam is the biggest event of its kind in the whole wide world. Scotland has been at the forefront of the GGJ for the last several years thanks to the team at Glasgow Caledonian University, who have supported it and helped it grow into one of the largest and most active locations …
Scottish Games Network – Diary Of A Startup – Part 1
One of the major things goals for the all new Scottish Games Network is to operate as a viable business. This does not mean as a profit-driven private company, but as a sustainable company (or social enterprise or charity - whatever makes the most sense) in the long term. As I said at all three …
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How This Works… NEWS
Scottishgames.net is the only website out there, which will run news and updates from every games-related company in Scotland. Whether you're a developer, a technology company, a freelancer or a part-time team, the site exists to support you and give you visibility and credibility in an increasingly saturated market. To make this work, we need …
Going For Greenlight…
Two Scottish game developers now have games up on the Steam Greenlight system - and they need your help. For our non-games industry readers, Steam Greenlight is a new crowd sourcing project on Valve's hugely popular (65 million users worldwide) Steam digital distribution system, which allows gamers to vote for the new games they would …
Scottish Games Journalist Does Interesting Thing…
Cara Ellison is a games journalist who writes for a whole bunch of games sites you'll know and read, including The Guardian, Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, Kotaku and PC Gamer. She writes interesting and slightly odd pieces to do with games, her feelings about games and the issues surrounding games and the wide world of …
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Scottish Games Network – An Introduction
In September last year I announced to the world that the Scottish Games Network was moving from a grass roots community to becoming something far more strategic and full time. I may even have used the words 'official industry body' for Scotland's interactive entertainment sector. I meant them too... I then organised a number of …
Cross-Party Group On Videogames Technology – 11/12/13
Last week saw the third cross-party group on videogames technology take place at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood. The group was created to give the video games and interactive sector representation within the parliament and address the issues facing the industry on a national level. The minutes for the meeting have now been drafted - …
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