BAFTA has announced the finalists, including six from Scotland, for the 2021 BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD) competition.
Six Scottish Finalists in 2021 BAFTA Young Game Designers Competition
Showcasing Orkney through digital storytelling
Robert Gordon University, in partnership with the University of the Highlands and Islands are collaborating on The Orkney Project, a new Digital Storytelling Platform which will showcase the history, culture and heritage of the Orkneys.
Games In Spaaaaace – ESA Funding For Mashup Projects
The European Space Agency has funding available for games and digital projects which utilise space data to solve real world problems.
YoYo Games Launches Interactive Game Making Tutorial: Little Town
YoYo Games has launched Little Town - a new game-making tutorial - which teaches students and hobbyists game development using GameMaker Studio 2.
Dundee Globally Awesome: Official
The recent 21 Places of the Future white paper from the Center for the Future of Work names Dundee as one of the world's tech/design hotspots
Play Away Festival 2021: Playful, Fascinating, Fun
Play Away Festival 2021: Playful, Fascinating, Fun - Scotland's videogames calendar has a new MUST VISIT event.
Game Designer Alfred Twu Speaking This Saturday
Game designer and artist Alfred Twu is speaking online this Saturday about "Games as an Introduction to Political Process and Long Term Planning". Tune in at 19:30.
PlayAway: William Kavanagh
Why is it that some multiplayer games see an explosion of popularity at launch only to fizzle out six months later, while a select few seem to stick around indefinitely? William Kavanagh, who is a PhD student in Computer Science researching game balancing at the University of Glasgow, has a theory.
Play Away Festival 2021
Scotland has an astonishing new videogames taking place in February 2021. The Play Away Festival 2021 is a fortnight's festival of gaming from our friends at the Tinderbox Collective. Play Away is taking a different approach to gaming. Videogames have an incredible amount to offer the world beyond their huge commercial success. Gaming is now …
Mesomorphic & UHI Developing ‘Algorismus’ Maths Game
The University of the Highlands and Islands is collaborating with Mesomorphic, a Shetland-based software company, to develop Algorismus, a game to boosts young people’s maths skills. Students and staff from Moray College (home of the Moray Game Jam - the UK's most northerly jam...) will work with Mesomorphic to create Algorismus, which will help students …
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