Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Jamming isn’t the easiest of things. However you do it, undertaking a 48 hour journey to produce a game from conception to birth, isn’t easy and there are likely to be stumbling blocks along the way. The first of these is the brick wall that exhaustion causes. It’s just physically draining to work for long …
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As chief organiser Brian McDonald pressed play on the audio file you could see that everyone in the room wasn’t paying full attention. Only as the regular, pumping, sound of a heart-beat was heard throughout the room did the jammers taking place realise that this was it, this was the theme. Nothing added, nothing taken …
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Dare to be Digital is BACK for 2013. If you're a regular visitor to the Scottish Games Network, then you'll know we're big fans of the competition (disclaimer: the good people at Dare regularly ask your editor to get involved in some way(s) - speaking, presenting, mentoring or hosting the awards. We're very proud...) Dare …
The NEoN 2012 festival introduced a new event called Drop In And Play. They invited smaller developers to take their games along to the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre and let members of the public play with them. Denki Quartic Llama and Lucky Frame all joined in, as well as the Malta-based digital artist Pippin Barr. …
Kicking off a year which promises to be a joy for networking, or a horrifying ordeal for agoraphobics, the meek and the more introverted developer, TIGA has announced its first developer event of the year will be held on Wednesday 23rd of January at Dukes Corner in Dundee. TIGA is promising a Stella line up …
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The University of Glasgow's Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Instititute (HATII) has organised a half day symposium exploring the area of game-based learning and the use of off-the-shelf consumer games technology within an educational context. The symposium will feature three noted and high profile speakers who can provide insight into the rapidly evolving new area …
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The BAFTA In Scotland New Talent Awards is the academy's competition for students and those working in the screen industries for the first time. The competition is unique and runs only in Scotland. The 2012 awards were a huge success, with BAFTA delegates across the UK visiting Glasgow for the awards ceremony and commenting upon …
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So you're a games/apps/web/tech veteran. Now what? It might be a good opportunity to change up your weekend and help shape some young impressionable minds by volunteering as a mentor/judge at the much talked about Young Rewired State event happening in Aberdeen this weekend. The event challenges teenagers to come up with inventive coded solutions …
Rab Florence: writer, comedian, wrestling fan, Burnistoun resident, gamer, reviewer and 33%-50% of the fondly remembered Consolevania team is back in the game. Mere weeks after bringing the UK games media, trembling to its knees by asking questions about the relationship between publishers, PR flacks and the hacks themselves, Rab is back with two new …
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The Mobile World Congress is the largest, most comprehensive conference/expo in the world, focusing on mobile technology, content and business. It takes place in Barcelona in February. It's also incredibly useful, entirely different to the games events you may have been to and is located in one of the most astonishing exhibition venues in the …
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