Codeplay is an enigma. One of Scotland's most successful technology companies, with a truly global reputation, yet they work on such secret projects that most people never know about all the consoles, mobiles and devices it helps shape, optimise and prepare for developers to build the next generation of awesome upon. Now Codeplay is hiring. The …
Culture Hack Scotland
Culture Hack Scotland is a 48 hour event for developers, designers, artists and producers, taking place in Glasgow's Whisky Bond from July 12th - 14th. CHS challenges participants to create a 'culture related project'. The description of last year's event describes it like this: Culture Hack Scotland does what is says on the tin. It’s …
Dare Launchpad – Games Careers For Kids
Dare to be Digital is not a competition which rests on its laurels, or allows years to pass without exploring new opportunities and finding new ways to introduce the joys and enormous potential of the games industry with an ever growing audience. Last year, the Dare+ programme challenged participants to create a start-up studio, with …
Sync Announces Its 2013 GEEKS IN RESIDENCE
Sync is a project which supports cultural organisations in Scotland, learn more about technology, come to love it, then take it back to the office/theatre/museum/loft space and do many interesting and exciting new things with it. As part of this remit, for the last several years Sync has placed a number of developers or technical …
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Life Of Play, Life Of The Mind Richard Lemarchand Speaks At GCU
Glasgow Caledonian University, in association with IGDA Scotland, is hosting a master class on Tuesday 2nd July, with Professor Richard Lemarchand, former game designer with Naughty Dog (Uncharted series) and now professor of game design at the University of Southern California. The masterclass, entitled Life of Play, Life of the Mind: What Game Design Can Teach …
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V&A Appoints BAFTA Winner As First Ever Game Designer In Residence
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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Edinburgh Man Becomes (a) God Thanks To Video Game
Bryan Henderson, all praise his mightiness, an unassuming chap from Edinburgh has become supreme deity with a near infinite power of life and death over an entire population, thanks to his ineffable mastery over video games. In his wisdom, Mr Henderson (praise him unto the furthest stars) downloaded Curiosity, an 'experiment' for iOS created by …
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YoYo – Game Maker – Tizen – Beta
If the above headline doesn't mean a great deal to you, you may not be alone. It is good news however. It means that Scotland's YoYo Games is continuing to support future technologies and that the company's popular GameMaker platform (which, the company tells us, has now been downloaded over 5,000,000 times) could be at …
Win Big With Game Maker – $35,000 In Prizes For Windows 8 Games
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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Impossible Road
Pythagoras. Newton. Leibniz. Lovelace. Curie. Einstein. Jones. Shakespeare. Braben. Crammond. Molyneux. Miyamoto. Persson. Ventura. The list of luminaries, sages and other professional thinking persons is an illustrious roll call of history's most creative visionaries. Their achievements are legend. Their legacy timeless. These are the forerunners, the shining ones, the immortals who illuminate the darkness and …