Equate, the organisation which focuses on bringing more women into the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths is holding a series of free evening seminars, designed to help women join the boards of Scotland's enviable array of public sector bodies. The workshops take place in Edinburgh and Dundee later this month: 20th February, 2017; 6pm …
BAFTA Scotland 2016 Games Nominations
The nominees for BAFTA Scotland's 2016 games award have been announced. Ant Workshop's Brain-melting platformer Binaries, Biome Collective's Killbox and Space Budgie's Glitchspace have all been nominated. These three games will compete for the BAFTA Scotland games award which will be handed out at the glittering award ceremony in Glasgow in November. Congratulations to all …
Light Bytes – Coming Soon – To Edinburgh, Dundee & Glasgow
Illustration for LIGHT BYTES an event for Creative Edinburgh and Creative Scotland by Want Some StudioCreative Edinburgh, Creative Dundee and We Throw Switches are joining forces to run three informal mixer events called Light Bytes. These will include networking, micro talks, panel discussion and the opportunity to play with technology. The project was initiated by …
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Vote BRUT@L
BRUT@L is the latest project from Dundee's Stormcloud Games. Based on classic dungeon crawlers and Rogue-likes such as Nethack and, well, Rogue (and Angband...) BRUT@L takes the old school ASCII aesthetic and transforms it, Tron-like for a new generation of gamers. You can see the launch trailer here: Stormcloud is promising BRUT@L will come to the PlayStation …
Scottish Games Industry Survey – PLEASE READ
The Scottish Games Network, Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise are working together to produce the first ever entirely comprehensive survey of Scotland's games industry.
D3 Christmas Drinks – Friday 4 December
Tag Games invites you to D3 Christmas Drinks on Friday 4th December - sponsored by Escape Technology. Sign up and get your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/d3-christmas-drinks-friday-4th-december-tickets-19272372184 The event will take place in Brae's function suite, 14 Perth Road, doors open at 6pm. Entrance is free (proof of ticket required) and there will be free drinks for all …
All 4 Games UK Roadshow Hits Scotland
All4Games, the new Glasgow-based games publishing arm of Channel 4, is looking for new game ideas and developers. The company is on a UK-wide tour, to introduce itself to the UK's games sector - and it's coming to Scotland. On Friday 20th of November, the All4Games roadshow hits Dundee. Tickets are free, but space is limited, so …
Are You Ahead Of The Game…?!
There have been a number of significant new events in the world of funding and financing video games in the last twelve months. Tax relief for game developers, putting them on a par with film and high end television production is a huge step forward. Not only for companies wishing to operate more sustainably, but …
Developers Wanted: Drop In And Play, Dundee (8/11/15)
Game developers - the DCA (in partnership with Abertay) needs you. And your games. The latest of the popular Drop In And Play events takes place in Dundee on Sunday November 8th, coinciding with the closing celebrations for the Discovery Film Festival. The closing film will be Labyrinthus, a Europena film, which tells the story …
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Remembering Stew Hogarth
Tomorrow the public memorial service takes place for our late friend, colleague and all round awesome guy, Stew Hogarth. You are invited to join a celebration of his life at 13:15 on Wednesday 23∫rdSeptember at St. Columba’s Roman Catholic Church (Derwent Avenue, Dundee, DD3 0BE). This will be followed by a reception at the Invercarse Hotel. Please make …