Scottish Enterprise and Interactive Tayside are running a workshop for digital media companies, aimed at helping businesses be more effective at corporate exhibiting. The event takes place at Discovery Point, Dundee on May 30th, 2013. Here's the official description: At exhibitions and events, you have one chance to stop the customer as they walk past …
Let The Right One In: New Audio Game From National Theatre Scotland And Quartic Llama
Other is an entirely new type of game, created by one of Dundee's most exciting new game developers. It exemplifies the fact that interactive media is changing every aspect of the creative industries, in new and unexpected ways. It's also an important project because it brings together a number of partners, including many that games …
BAFTA PLAY – Glasgow, May 8th…
BAFTA PLAY is the first EVER BAFTA Scotland games event. It's taking place on WEDNESDAY 8TH MAY at Glasgow Caledonian University's Saltire Centre, kicking off at 6:30pm. It gives visitors from the film, television and games industries, a chance to meet and see the winners of this year's BAFTA New Talent Awards and the Scottish …
Develop Award Nominees Announced
The nominees for the 2013 Develop awards have been announced, with a smattering of Scottish companies appearing in the list of 20 categories... Best use of narrative - The 39 Steps (Story Mechanics) Technical innovation - Game Maker (YoYo Games) Engine - GameMaker (YoYo Games) Creative contribution, Audio - Savalas Sound Creative contribution, Visuals - …
Spy Quest – East Kilbride based Polybius Games sleuths into hotels and schools worldwide.
Once upon a time (well, in the early 80s), there was an arcade machine that slipped onto the sticky floored arcades of Oregon. No one knew where it came from, only its name - hailing from the Greek Historian, Polybius, known for his cryptography work and the creator of the Polybius cipher. It caused chaos …
Scottish Games Lounge: Live At Digital 2013
We've mentioned the forthcoming Digital 2013 event a couple of times now: connecting Scotland's digital and creative industries - talks, workshops, exhibitors - all the things you'd hope to see at a show focusing on technology, digital media and the creative industries. Now there's a new element within Digital 2013 - the Scottish Games Lounge... …
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Develop Awards – Open For Entries
If you're a game developer, in the UK or Europe and working on games, then you may be interested to know that the 2013 Develop awards are now open for entries and intense, hand-core lobbying. Categories are gratifyingly broad and incorporate categories which will benefit every type of development studio, from the smallest indie through …
Abertay Team Competing In ‘Make Something Unreal’ Competition Final
Epic Games’ Make Something Unreal Live is an international game development competition open to full time students at universities and colleges across Europe. 22 teams, comprised of over 170 students submitted game concepts which based on the theme “Mendelian inheritance: genetics and genomics” which spans concepts such as variation, mutation and other behaviors of the human genome. …
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Interface3 & Science Festival Making Games REAL
Edinburgh's Interface3 is a company best known for touch surface technology, augmented reality and co-located games. More recently Interface3 launched its dedicated games label, Tigerface, which is creating multiplayer educational experiences aimed at kids using the same device. Now however, Interface3 has worked with the Edinburgh Science Festival to create PLAY DAY, a real world …
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Scottish Government Cross Party Group On Videogames Technology Announces New Convenor & Next Meeting
The cross-party group on videogames technology was started in early 2012 by MSP Joe Fitzpatrick. The group met in March that same year - while GDC was on - yet still attracted a standing room only crowd, to hear from speakers including Denki's Colin Anderson, Scottish Enterprise and TIGA. The group's initial meeting was more …