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 …
Crossover Scotland – Inspiration Day
Crossover Scotland's Inspiration Day was a rare event, a day designed to bring together 'creatives' from a range of disciplines - film & tv, performing arts, literature, music, games and 'other'... It's part of a larger series of events, created by Crossover Labs and The Sheffield Documentary Festival, incorporating residential labs where practitioners from all …
Death Knight Love Story
http://vimeo.com/84434371 If you've not come across the term 'Machinima' before, it is far more than a popular YouTube channel. It refers to the process of using commercially available video game engines to create animated films. The word itself was coined by one of the pioneers of the medium, Hugh Hancock, founder of Strange Company and …
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 …
Inspiration Day
One of the major opportunities for games creators moving forward is the chance to work with and educate other areas of the creative industries. Film, television, music, literature and even the performing arts are all now looking seriously at games, apps and interactive media and wondering how to make it work for them. Thanks to …
2013’s Hottest Scots – Rockstar North
The List, Scotland's magazine of art, culture and media has an annual list of the hottest Scots - individual and collective - around the world. Covering actors, artists, sportsmen, authors, musicians, dancers, producers and even venues, the Hottest Scots showcases country's talent. This year's list is notable for the inclusion of two digital entries. Simon …
The Computer Games Journal – Volume 2 Edition 3 – Out Now
The Computer Games Journal is one of the only academic journals in the world focusing on the computer games industry and the issues facing the creators, technologies and innovators within this rapidly evolving sector. It was created and is edited here in Scotland by a team of respected academics including editor-in-chief Dr John Sutherland, Dr …
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Develop’s 30 Under 30 – Scots Galore
Develop magazine has published its annual 30 Under 30, a list of up-and-coming stars in the world of games development. Quite a wide range of Scottish developers made the cut this year and were featured in the list. Step forward and take a bow please: Simon Kilroy, Software Engineer, Ruffian Alex Zeitler, Co-founder and CTO, …
Games For Non-Gamers
Since we're off to Radio Scotland in half an hour to talk games for non-gamers, we thought it would be nice to give them a little list of all the good stuff out there that they can go and play. So here's your official Scottish Games Network list of games for those of you who …
Modern Playing – Game City Hits Scotland – Games WANTED
Game City is, in our opinion, one of the most exciting and original video games events anywhere in the world. It exemplifies all that is best about gaming. It celebrates the culture and the activity of actually playing games. It champions the creativity and design of the video games world and it manages to avoid …
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