Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
WeeWorld is reviving it's Glasgow Mobile Breakfast meetups after a brief hiatus, opening it's conference room doors to a roundtable of developers and mobile businesses for discussion and debate on the stuff that matters to them. Past attendees, who have come from as far as Edinburgh and Dundee, will be familiar with the no holds …
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Halo Creator Bungie and publisher Activision caused controversy last week with the information-lite teaser for the new persistent world shooter, Destiny. Flirting with the world's media and treating potential players as pawns in a strange global drip feeding frenzy of marketing may work for two of the world's largest games companies, but it lacks a …
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Hunted Cow has achieved a great deal since the company was founded back in 2003. The company has launched a variety of online massively multiplayer gamers including Fallen Sword and Gothador. They've tried pioneered new business models, such as free-to-play gaming, years before the whole idea of freemium reached the mainstream games sector and they've …
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Last weekend the Scottish Game Jam took place and Guerilla Tea were invited to mentor at the Dundee chapter. It was a terrific event and we all had a great time, made even better by the fact that pizza was provided on the Friday night… The spirit of turning night into day and developing a …
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Lucky Frame is back - with a brand new game. After the awards, amazing reviews, nominations, plaudits, acclaim and general awestruck wonder that the company's previous title, Bad Hotel picked up, Lucky Frame has refused categorically to rest upon it's rainbow-hued laurels. The steely-eyed outfit has instead forced it's development gnomes back down the software …
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Jamming isn’t the easiest of things. However you do it, undertaking a 48 hour journey to produce a game from conception to birth, isn’t easy and there are likely to be stumbling blocks along the way. The first of these is the brick wall that exhaustion causes. It’s just physically draining to work for long …
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Out today on iOS, quirky platformer Food Run comes from Edinburgh based one-man-developer Pixels On Toast, also known as Kevin Ng. With Rockstar Games, EA and Warthog sitting happily on his CV, Ng formed Pixels On Toast in 2010 and produced titles WordCrasher and Kick Flick Soccer. Food Run is his follow up and we …
Bips! is a brand new game from Ludometrics, out now for Facebook. So far so vanilla you might be thinking, but hold those there horses, cowboys n' girls. This is no regular release. Bips! has a long and noble history, with a pedigree as long as Metal Gear Solid cut scene (one of our New …
The Prototype fund, administered by Abertay University has funded a number of companies, start-ups and new studios in the last several months. The latest of these is Secret Lunch, a new game development team of former Mprof students from the university. The team has already worked on a number of titles across multiple platforms, including …
Out now, just in time for Christmas, comes Save Santi the brand new game from Edinburgh's Inceptional. Save Santi is a retro-styled puzzler in which the player must alter each level to help a handful of cute, cuddly, fuzzy and otherwise lovely little critters to reach dear old St Nick and save his jolly old …
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