Quartic Lllama's innovative location-based game, Other, created in conjunction with the National Theatre Of Scotland has been nominated in the 2013 IndieCade - the International Festival of Independent Games. Taking place in Los Angeles in October 2013, IndieCade is the largest independent games festival in the good old US of A. Taking place across downtown …
Conversation with Silicon Valley – Girl Geek Dinners
It has been a while since Girl Geek Scotland hosted a dinner but they certainly came out with all guns blazing for their return, with a host of fantastic guests answering questions in a panel debate. Although not entirely games related the events are highly regarded in the tech community and so we couldn't afford …
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Unity Developers Conference 2013 – Live
Roving reporter, Forbes contributor, mobile expert, veteran blogger, noted commentator, cultural podcaster, rock dj,muppet wrangler and Eurovision legend, Ewan Spence is currently out in Vancouver, Canada for the Unity developers conference - UNITE 2013. Ewan will be providing on the spot reportage, live coverage and terrifyingly in-depth analysis of the conference, for the benefit of …
Stormcloud Presents Paper, Pandas, Pregnancy & Propaganda
The team at Stormcloud Games have been pushing the boat out for their initial title, Mr Shingu's Paper Zoo. They were at Dare ProtoPlay's indie showcase, with branded t-shirts, iPads and boundless enthusiasm. The game was a big hit with kids and families and proved that the combination of paper folding, animal husbandry and tamagotchi …
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Dare To Be Digital – The Indie Conference – Day 2
Day two of the Dare 2013 indie festival took place on Friday 9th August. The theme of Convergence carried over from the previous day with an equally eclectic line-up of speakers and panels, examining issues around the ongoing evolution of the games industry. Like day one of the conference, there were some truly inspiring speakers …
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Dare to be Digital – The Indie Conference – Day 1
This year's Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay featured a two day indie conference, which focused on the issue of convergence - the ongoing overlap between video games and other areas of the arts and media, including film, television, literature and music. This was a bold move from Dare. Convergence is a topic which is normally …
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Dare to be Digital 2013 – The Games, The Talks, The Awards, The Crowds
At 5pm on Sunday the 11th of August, the 2013 Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay event drew to a close. The four day even in central Dundee, pulled in a record breaking crowd of 13,000 players, gamers, developers, designers, stars, ministers, legends and families. Fiona Hyslop, the Cabinet Secretary for Culture & External Affairs opened …
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Start Your Own Game Studio With Dare+
There are less than ten tickets left for the 2013 Dare+ workshop. It's an intensive one day workshop exploring every aspect of starting and running a game development studio. It's easier now than at any point in history to build and release a game, but achieving long-term, sustainable success is more difficult. Dare+ is running …
Getting Girls Into Games – Free Talk At Dare ProtoPlay Festival
Girls with a love of computer games are being encouraged to consider making games as a career, with a free talk at the Dare ProtoPlay festival in Dundee on Thursday 8 August. BAFTA-winning Sophia George, who is also the V&A’s first ever Game Designer in Residence, will take the stage with Erin Michno, co-founder of …
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Jesse Schell To Speak At Dare To Be Digital 2013 (and the EIF)
We've been promising, teasing, tantalising and feeding little bits of information about this to the industry for the last several months, but we are now thrilled, delighted and quietly chuffed to confirm that world-renowned game design expert Jesse Schell is to speak at the Dare ProtoPlay festival in Dundee, as part of Dare Indie Fest... AND …
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