Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The NESTA-backed games consortium, announced earlier this year, has been named and the initial members announced. Speaking at a conference on collaboration in Glasgow this morning, CEO Andy Payne revealed the companies which are part of the AppyNation consortium. These are: Finblade Proper Games Niffler Onteca Supersonic Lightning Fish and Mr Payne himself. The consortium …
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It's true. As true as the morning sunrise and that physical bodies attract with a force proportional to their mass... Quarrel. It lives. It's OUT NOW on the App Store. For iPhone, iPad and iPod. Regular Quarrel, which is just very, very good indeed, is FREE. While Quarrel Deluxe adds a plethora of features which grace only the very finest, hand-crafted …
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Dundee's Tag Games has been selected as one of Mobile Entertainment magazine's Top 50 UK Mobile Innovators, the only Scottish games developer in the list. It's a fairly respectable list too. According to the magazine... ME's Top 50 Mobile Innovators project, sponsored by O2 BlueVia, was a quest to identify the firms doing amazing things …
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It's always nice to hear from a new development studio. So it's a pleasure to introduce Physmo, a new indie developer based in Glasgow, which has released its latest title, Mos Speedrun for iPhone, iPad and Mac. An unashamedly old school platformer, Mos Speedrun has been picking up incredible scores and critical acclaim from the …
If you've read Scottishgames.net for any length of time, you'll know that we're big fans of the Dare to be Digital competition. Our editor has been involved in a variety of ways over the last 10 years and welcomes any opportunity to inform, educate and enthrall listeners with the benefits and vast potential of Dare …
Time is ticking away. Entries for the 2011 British Academy Scotland Awards close on Friday 19th of August at 17:00 BST. The new GAMES category is open to every developer from indie-vidual developers, through to the largest studios. Format is not a consideration, allowing online, browser-based, mobile and casual titles, to compete head-to-head with console …
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Claymore Games, the indie games studio founded by Brian Hackett in 2005 has been working quietly away on a number of projects over the last year or so, but we've not heard much from them. That's all changed with the release of Claymore's Plum Crazy, for iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad...), which is OUT NOW! The …
Part of the forthcoming wave of gaming goodness which is Dare ProtoPlay will be a corresponding 3 x day GAME JAM taking place at Dundee's Caird Hall from Friday 12th - Sunday 14th of August. There are a very limited number of spaces left for the Jam. It's free to participate and compete, but you …
According to Glasgow's Evening Times, a team of students from Glasgow Caledonian University are close to signing a deal for their first game - Ludi Gladiatorium - with a major publisher. Project leader Daniel Sneddon has already pitched the, as yet unfinished game, to an unnamed publisher in San Francisco, with another Hong Kong based …
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Following on from yesterday's introduction to the 2011 Edinburgh Interactive Festival, we've been contacted by the organisers to promote a special offer, created specifically for developers in Scotland. Edinburgh Interactive is delighted to offer 2 complimentary places for staff in return for 1 Scottish Developer ticket purchased at the cost of only £125 + vat. …
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