Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Shaping the Future of Games Education “Dear industry, what do you really want from education?” The Scottish Games Education Symposium 2024 (SGES) is thrilled to announce the date, location, and focus of its highly anticipated 2024 event. Taking place on November 27th, 2024, from 9:30 AM to 4 PM, the symposium will be sponsored and …
The excellent Opera.agency is gearing up for its Creative SoundLAB September 2024 event, a unique opportunity for games developers, animators, film-makers and other creators to connect with top audio talent and elevate the soundscapes of their projects. Network with the Best in Audio: The event will be held at Edinburgh Napier University's Bright Red Triangle …
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ProtoPlay, the hugely popular free games festival showcasing the work of graduate games developers returns to Dundee on the 27th and 28th of September. ProtoPlay is the games show for the UK Games Fund’s Tranzfuser competition. Nineteen teams from across the UK will travel to Dundee to get player feedback on the first playable versions …
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The Ada Scotland Festival is back for its fifth consecutive year, running from the 1st - 11th October 2024. The festival champions gender balance in tech and computing, providing inspiration for young people and building a stronger, fairer, more diverse workforce for the future. Volunteers Wanted This year, the team behind the festival would like …
Scotland’s Biggest Games Event Will Return In 2025 With An All New Programme Of Excellence And Awesome Scottish Games Week, the largest B2B videogames event in Scotland, is hitting <PAUSE> for 2024, returning in October 2025 with a larger, more diverse programme of events supporting the whole videogames ecosystem. Brian Baglow, the founder and director …
Panelists Include Representatives Of WarDog, West College Scotland, Amicable Animal, Cobra Mobile & Heriot Watt University - Chaired by Michael Marra MSP The Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics 2024 takes place in August with a five-day programme of over 30 events, in the home of Scottish politics at Holyrood. This year, for the first time ever, …
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Scotland's First Large-Scale Blockchain/Web 3 Event Blockstart Scotland, the country’s first large-scale Web3 event is taking over the Barras Art & Design (BAaD) in Glasgow on August 1st and 2nd, 2024.The event organisers are promising a "kaleidoscope of Web3 topics!" Covering high-level topics including governance and enterprise, Blockstart Scotland will also explore games, sports, music, …
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Edinburgh Theatre Announces Immersive Creatives Its First Ever Event For Immersive Creators, Developers & Students Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre - the home of new writing - is holding its first ever event for developers and creators working with immersive technology (VR/AR/XR/MR). Immersive Creatives is part of the theatre's Festival programme, taking place at 18:00 on August …
The Glasgow Independent Games Festival is a celebration of indie games brought to you by Hairy Heart Games & Hubworld - the team behind the Southside Games Festival. The new indie-centric event builds on that to deliver a bigger, better - and possibly weirder - event for 2024. According to the organisers: "We pride ourselves …
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The Celebration of All Things Games - Including Dozens Of Playable Retro Games Runs In Edinburgh Until November 2024 The Game On exhibition - originally created and curated by the Barbican in 2002 - has returned to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, more than 20 years after its first visit - and we …
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