Become a One Minute Mentor and Inspire the Next Generation

Part of Ukie’s push to help educate young people about careers in games, the One Minute Mentor programme is calling for anyone involved in the games industry to share a tiny chunk of wisdom about what they do and how they got there.

Nae Danger: New Game Tackles Knife Crime

Nae Danger is a new choose-your-own-adventure game aimed at schools and youth organisations across Scotland to help young people understand more about the dangers of carrying knives.

Cairngorms Recreated In Minecraft

The Cairngorms National Park is the latest piece of Scotland to be recreated in Minecraft as part of a project to help young people understand more about planning and building communities.

PlayTech Sells YoYo Games For $10M

Playtech the online gambling company which owns YoYo Games, the Dundee-based creator of Game Maker Studio, has sold the company to an unnamed buyer, for $10 million, six years after it purchased the company for $16.4 million.

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 …

Entries Open For BAFTA Young Game Designers 2021

Entries have now opened for the 11th BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD) competition. Inspiring the UK’s future game makers, and celebrating new gaming talent, the competition, gives young people (from ages 10-18) the chance to design or make their own game.

Games Jobs LIVE: The Next Generation

Games Jobs LIVE The Next Generation is a live online event for young people to let them know more about how to find a career in videogames.

Games & Interactive Skills Review

ScreenSkills is inviting industry professionals based across Scotland to participate in workshops to help them determine which skills and what knowledge is required to work in job roles relating interactive media and videogames.

Make Your Games Business Better

Make Your Games Business Better: Two new courses offering vital creative business skills to Scotland’s freelancers, founders, startups and small businesses have launched.

Find out more here.

PLAY Challenge – Games Transforming Education

The PLAY Challenge is a competition to find games which help to develop, recognise, or reward 21st century skills, with $10,000 on offer for the winner.