Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The past weekend saw the ever awesome Game In Scotland event take place in Dundee. A recruitment fair, networking opportunity, platform for new talent and general shindig for the games industry in Scotland, it introduced a whole range of entirely new companies, working across a huge range of new and interesting areas of interactive entertainment. …
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The 2012 Game In Scotland event is happening NOW in Dundee. If you're not here, you're missing out. LIVE on stage they have speakers from many of the country's most rapidly evolving games companies. Colin MacDonald, commissioning editor for games from Channel 4 opened proceedings and outlined how far ahead of the curve Scotland is …
If you work in the game industry and you're wondering why it's all gone very quiet down in London right now, It's the BAFTA Games awards tonight. The famous BAFTA masks will be handed out for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence, to games from all platforms and covering all manner of genres. Denki …
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It's request time, readers. Anthony Reynolds from Glasgow University is looking for people to help his research into gaming culture and mature content in videogames. It's not another survey into violent games = violent behaviour. Rather he's looking for input from gamers to help shape the research itself. If you can spare 10 minutes at …
IndieKick is a new online community for indie game developers. Designed to let indie-viduals (sorry) from various backgrounds (art, coding, etc.) share their portfolios and discover potential collaborators, partners and team members, IndieKick wants to be the place for new teams to come together. Stephen McIntyre, one of the founders of the site, told us: …
The Scottish chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has racked up a significant number of achievements over the last year. They've organised a number of very well attended events and pulled in some world class speakers at the same time. Less well known however is the fact that the IGDA awards annual scholarships …
Do you need a job? Do you have a job, but would like another job, entirely different to your current job? Do you dream of a job which will allow you to explore the outer limits of creativity and actually build new worlds and new experiences. A job which demands creativity, lateral thinking and inspires …
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Hot on the heels of the BAFTA In Scotland awards, the BAFTA New Talent Awards are now open for business. This competition is aimed at students and developers working on their first project. There is a specific games category, which is open to games on all platforms. Entrants can be part of a larger team, …
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Scotland's Playwrights' Studio has created the 360 Narratives course, to offer writers the opportunity to learn about and experience other forms of writing. Working in teams, writers and narrative creators from different fields will collaborate to create story worlds that can be exploited across a variety of media by looking at how to develop ideas …
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The University of Abertay in Dundee is something of an icon in the interactive world. It has gained an enviable reputation over the last several years. Not just in Scotland, or even the UK, but globally. Abertay is producing talented graduates with the skills required within a rapidly evolving industry. It also works closely nearly …
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