We were delighted to be invited to Guerilla Tea’s second workshop with Enable Scotland’s East Renfrewshire Local Area Coordination (LAC) Team; with some parents and LAC’s there with the kids. For those of you who don’t know LAC’s support people with disabilities to think about and plan for a life that makes sense to them. …
March Madness – IGDA Scotland Event, Dundee
After a bit of a hiatus its great to see the IGDA Scotland meetings getting back on track with last months meet up in Glasgow, for a play party of the Scottish Game Jam games, being the best attended event so far and next months Edinburgh meeting already planned – keep the 10th April free. …
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Reloaded Celebrates 2nd Birthday With A Party Of Thousands
For many game developers, the studio's second anniversary is a cause for celebration, which normally extends to a party, cake, free drink and general partying on down. Reloaded Productions recently celebrated it's second birthday as a big grown-up studio with something a little more global and digital. Players of the studio's popular APB Reloaded title …
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Game In Scotland – The Panels
That's it, last day of our special Game In Scotland exclusives. Today we announce the last piece of the puzzle - the panels. The event is famous for two major topics: How to get into the games industry and The future of videogames How To Get Into The Games Industry The first is fairly self explanatory, …
APB Reloaded Celebrates A Year In The Steam Top 5
APB inspires mixed emotions within the games industry. Some people get misty-eyed and reminisce about what might have been. Some people get angry about the the fact the game never achieved its full potential. To many the game is simply a vague memory, of a title from years back, which wasn't very good. The games media …
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Listen to your Heart – Global Game Jam brings an Audio Twist in 2013
As chief organiser Brian McDonald pressed play on the audio file you could see that everyone in the room wasn’t paying full attention. Only as the regular, pumping, sound of a heart-beat was heard throughout the room did the jammers taking place realise that this was it, this was the theme. Nothing added, nothing taken …
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Introducing: XBL Gamerhub
We're always delighted to hear from new companies working in and around the games sector here in Scotland. We're pretty well in terms of developers. At the last count - and with another couple still to be added to the site, we have 86 development studios in the country. Today's Introducing is different. We were …