Introducing – Proper QA

There’s a new company in Scotland’s growing firmament of gaming wonder.  It’s not a development studio, but a company offering quality assurance and testing.  Proper QA is based in Edinburgh and is the branchild of …

Glasgow Mobile Breakfast: Coffee & Croissants at WeeWorld

CEO of Glasgow based WeeWorld, Celia Francis, is calling for members of the mobile development community to gather for some brekkie and discussion regarding marketing and the mobile app development world. The idea came to …

Exhibiting At A Festival – Lessons For Indie Developers

After a jaunt to the frozen North, visiting the far frontier of UK games development, we return with a guest post from the astonishingly resilient Colin Riley (aka @Domipheus) who took part in the first …

Games And Gift Culture

You may remember that Scottishgames recently introduced Steve Hammond into the fray as a guest columnist, giving you insightful and surprising tidbits into the Scottish game industry’s origins. We’ve also had the wonderful Phil Harris …

Bad Hotel Good Game

We are, of course, entirely objective here at Scottishgames.  We love all of the developers and games companies in Scotland without favouritism or preference. There are a few companies though, who do get us quite excited when …

Wrestling Manager Receives Major Update

More muscles, more sweat, more grappling, grabbing, trash talking, chair slamming, pile driving, masks, trunks, mullets and MAYHEM.  Yes, Wrestling Manager, the inaugural title from Serious Parody has been updated and iterated and improved and …

Dare Winners Announced At Biggest Ever ProtoPlay

The 2012 Dare to be Digital competition came to a climax yesterday, when the winning teams were announced at a star-studded, glamorous and confetti covered awards ceremony. The awards were handed out at the end …

Protoplay 2012 – Day 2

Previously on Protoplay… Having never missed a Protoplay since its inception, PP:2012 will be my 6th, and I’m fortunate enough to have seen it from pretty much every angle available, staff helper, contestant (and winner!), …

Dare Protoplay 2012 – Day 0

 If you’re reading this, Dare will probably be in full swing already. if you’re yet to go though, allow me to get you in the mood by sharing what makes this year’s even so important. …

Art, Squirrels and the New Reality – Edinburgh Interactive (Session 3)

Back from lunch and into the fray with Are Computer Games Art?   Chris Bateman @SpiralChris International Hobo and Ren Reynolds (@RenZephyr) Virtual Policy Network got a good response from the audience. Hell, yes! We …