It's that time again. 15 teams from 16 universities around the world are now in Dundee, with only NINE weeks to create a working videogame, before showing it off to members of the public at the ProtoPlay event in central Dundee in August. This year's event is larger than ever before. Entries were received from …
Digital Spark Conference, 29-30th June 2011
The second Digital Spark conference takes place at the University of Abertay at the end of June. The conference focuses on the creation, use and protection of Intellectual Property within the creative industries. Alongside presentations from companies such as Google, Sony, Universal Music, Sega and Aardman, Digital Spark offers introductory workshops, or indeed master classes, …
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Dare ProtoPlay – August 12-14 – DUNDEE CITY CENTRE
ProtoPlay is the culmination of the whole Dare to be Digital competition. It's a three day celebration of games, gaming and creativity. The teams which have competed over the previous ten weeks, have three days to demonstrate their prototypes to the public, gather votes and impress the hell out of the industry judges. Around this …
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sTAGgering To Greatness…
Do you see what we did there? Happy birthday to Dundee mobile powerhouse Tag, which celebrated its fifth birthday this week. Alongside cake, jelly, ice cream and a pin the tail on the tester competition, the studio celebrated - as you would - with a 24 hour #TagHack - in which their development folks split …
YoYo Games – Updates, Releases & The Future Of Games…
YoYo Games, the company behind the popular Game Maker programme, which allows users to create and publish their own games, has been busy lately. Very busy. Technology updates, new games, new partnerships, new team members AND courses teaching Game Maker are all now in progress - putting YoYo very firmly at the front of the …
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Dundee Game Jam – May 28th 2011
Dundee, city of many discoveries. Home to jute, journalism and the all-new Dundee Game Jam. Taking place at Abertay University on (Saturday) May 28th, from 09.30 - 17.00. It's open to students, professional game developers, ex game developers, reformed games developers, talented amateurs and anyone who can put together the basic pieces of a videogame. …
CONPULSION – Games Con, Edinburgh, This Weekend
Direct from Scottishgames partner SQUARE-GO.COM: Conpulsion is Scotland's premier games convention and has been running under that name for the past 15 years but has existed in various forms for the past 25, acting as a community hub for Scottish gamers and visitors from across the world. At its roots, Conpulsion is predominately concerned with …
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Dare To Be Documentary Airs This Weekend
At last year's Dare to be Digital competition and ProtoPlay event, visitors and competitors were carefully followed by a dedicated camera crew from HeadLight Scotland, who were on site to carefully record and capture the whole experience. Now, all of their hard work can be seen on national TV, when the three-part series runs on …
Nicholas Lovell – Self-Publishing Masterclass – Glasgow
The games industry is changing and evolving very rapidly right now. New platforms, new routes to market, new business models, new consumers all mean new opportunities for development studios. Finding new ways of doing business, or identifying these new opportunities can be difficult, when the industry is changing around you, which can leave some developers …
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Game In Scotland, Dundee, Sat 26th March
If you haven't come across the Game In Scotland recruitment fair before, it's fairly simple to explain. It's a recruitment fair, for the games industry in Scotland. See? The clues were all there. It tends to pull in all of the Scottish development studios, from the smallest to the largest, who have stands and accept …