Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The BFI Innovation Challenge Fund has announced the first four projects to receive funding towards creating solutions which tackle the UK screen sector’s most critical challenges - including a project supported by Scotland's Games Jobs Live. The area of focus for the fund’s first round is the UK video games industry which is facing a …
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Nine creative networks across Scotland, including Dundee's Biome Collective, will receive a share of £120,000 from Create:Networks to support the development of sustainable creative communities. Create:Networks 2024/25 – is a fund enabling groups, organisations and creative practitioners to build new or develop existing local creative networks as enablers for sustainable creative communities in Scotland. Launched …
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Up to £100k Business FundingApply Before 14:00 on 11th September 2024 Applications are now open for the Scottish EDGE24 competition, which offers prizes of up to £100,000 (part grant/part loan) to businesses across Scotland - including the 'Creative EDGE' prize, which is open to games studios, independent developers and young games teams. Better yet, the …
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 Sequel To The Hit NES & Dreamcast Game LEAP Year Launch Dundee's Lowtek Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the creation of Flea! 2 - the sequel to the 2020 retro smash Flea! - and has already smashed it's initial goal in the first 24 hours! Like its predecessor, Flea! 2 will …
Dundee Studio One Of Only Five Games Companies Across The UK To Be Funded Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency has announced the recipients of £6.2 million in grants, who are tackling some of today's biggest societal challenges - with Konglomerate's co-founder, designer and director Connie Reid one of only five female games leaders across …
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Stirling Studio is one of 23 companies awarded International Business Development support. Ping Creates, the Stirling-based studio behind the recently released (and award-nominated) Super Stretchy Chicken Legs, has secured funding from the British Film Institute's UK Global Screen Fund. Financed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the award is to boost Ping …
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Funding round, led by RedBird Capital Partners, will support Build A Rocket Boy’s commercialisation as it launches its immersive gaming platform EVERYWHERE and AAA game MindsEye. Build A Rocket Boy, the Edinburgh-headquartered games studio founded by Leslie Benzies, has secured over $110 million in a series D funding round. The new capital will enable Build A …
Imagine a world where your next virtual outfit is a statement for the planet, where ethical threads weave a narrative of change, and where fashion takes centre stage in the fight for a greener future. This isn't a utopian fantasy; it's the battle cry of the Interactive Futures Sustainable Fashion Challenge, and Scotland's game developers …
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Applications are now open for the Biome Collective Grant for Digital Creatives. These are no-strings-attached grants of £500 aimed at supporting individual Scotland-based digital creatives from under-represented or marginalised backgrounds. Applications use a simple online form to capture basic details about you, your practice and the help you need. The deadline for applications is Friday …