The teams at Hunted Cow, Moray College and Screen HI are collaborating to create what is believed to be the most northerly game jam ever to take place in the United Kingdom. The 48 hour Moray Game Jam takes place on March 14th-16th, at Moray College in Elgin. It's open to teams of 2-5 people …
Game In Scotland 2014
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 …
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 …
Tigerface Nominated In iKids Awards
Edinburgh's Tigerface has been nominated in the annual iKids awards. The competition created to recognise the world's best interactive products designed for children. The company's Cosmic Reactor game, has been nominated in the Best Learning App for Tablets category. Cosmic Reactor challenges two players with lightning fast maths questions, has already picked up an editor's …
Scottish Games Network – An Introduction
In September last year I announced to the world that the Scottish Games Network was moving from a grass roots community to becoming something far more strategic and full time. I may even have used the words 'official industry body' for Scotland's interactive entertainment sector. I meant them too... I then organised a number of …
Scottish Games Network Partners With Scottish Games Expo
Back in November we reported a new public facing games event being planned for October 2014, in Edinburgh's International Conference Centre. Since then we've met Magdala Media, the company behind the expo a couple of times, to find out their plans for the expo and to see where it fits into Scotland's gaming calendar. The …
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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 …
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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Cross Party Group On Video Games – Holyrood, December 11th
The third Cross-Party Group on Videogames will take place in Holyrood on the evening of Wednesday December 11th, from 17:30 - 19:30. The focus of this will be Skills & Creativity In The Video Games Industry. Speakers will include Gina Jackson from Creative Skillset, David Martin from Skills Development Scotland and Brian Baglow from the …
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