Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Tag's first title for its casual/social TagPlay label, Funpark Friends, has been nominated in the Best Social Games category in the 2012 International Mobile Games Awards, which are announced that the Mobile World Congress, which takes place in Barcelona at the end of February. Congratulations to the team and we'll all keep our fingers crossed …
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A team from Dundee's Abertay University has picked up first prize in the Samsung bada Student Developer Challenge. The competition challenged teams of students to create new games for Samsung's app store - starting with a gruelling 24 hour game jam. Tom DeMajo, Erin Michno and Ian Reynolds, collectively known as Quartic Llama, built Moeba, …
Reproduced in whole, thanks to it being pretty much awesome. A celebration and a challenge. After the entire games industry told Denki that Quarrel wouldn't work on console - can we make it a hit? They deserve it, it's a damn fine game. Throw your weight behind this, please. Buy it, share it, tell people …
The 2012 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition has just been released and this year several members of official Scottishgames.net chums, Glasgow-based Ready Up were commissioned by Guinness as consultants. Dan Bendon researched and penned the Fighting game section, while Kirsten Kearney covered shooters and John Brown took on the Driving games section. According to Dan, …
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The local chapter of STV popped into the Dundee HQ of Outplay Entertainment earlier this week to take a look at what the company's working on and ponder the ongoing evolution of the games business. Superstar reporter Holly Hamilton spoke to senior producer Tone Brennan and a handsome passerby to ask how the industry has …
Quarrel, the highly regarded word game from Denki hit the iOS market towards the end of 2011. It proved quite popular with critics and players. It was awarded excellent scores and hit several 'game of the year' round ups. And scored a BAFTA. Now Quarrel is coming to Xbox. The game's original incarnation will finally …
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The Scottish Games Jam is the local outpost of the massive Global Game Jam - an annual competition which challenges teams to build an original new game in only 48 hours. Organised by the Independent Game Developers Association, the global games jam has run since 2008. Last year, the jam attracted over 6,500 competitors, in …
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Digital Goldfish, the studio behind the hugely popular iOS versions of the Bloons series of games are celebrating a phenomenal start to 2012 with news that the latest game in the series - Bloons 2 - is riding high in the iPhone App Store charts and has had a very successful Christmas indeed on the Nintendo …
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Lucky Frame's quirky and deeply cool Pugs Luv Beats has been nominated in the Independent Games Festival's 'Excellence In Audio' award category. The IGF is the world's leading indie games competition. It runs alongside the prestigious Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco in early March. All of the finalists will have their …
In one of the most generous and artistically significant moves of the mobile age, the first two seasons of Consolevania, the ground-breaking Scottish videogames show, are now FREE to download on iTunes. This includes the monumentally important Scottish Games Industry Fluff Piece, created by the Consolevania team for the Edinburgh Interactive festival in 2008. It's …