Word Crasher, the game which manages to combine Scrabble, Tetris and dropping Mentos with all letters on, into Coke, has been revised, updated and polished to a mirror sheen by Edinburgh-based indie powerhouse and one man dynamo of Wonder, Pixels On Toast (aka Kevin Ng). Word Crasher now reflects the beauty and integrity of Kevin's …
Indie Game: The Movie Comes To Dundee with NEoN 2012
Following over a year of email campaigns and fan requests, the coveted video-game film epic finds a home in Scotland's original game making hub. Indie Game: The Movie follow's the story of the makers of Fez, Super Meat Boy and a handful of other people who dedicate their work to the creation of their own …
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Out Now – Gears Of Glory: Apex Ace
If there's one indie game we've been looking forward to over the last several months, it's Gears Of Glory. A technical top-down racer, the game offers players a more challenging experience than the normal zoomy, drivey, drifty type of arcade game. The handling needs to be learned, man. You need to spend some time figuring …
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 CEO Nick Barrett. QA is one of those aspects of development which is often overlooked, or which many people outside …
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 her after attending this year's highly successful Turing Festival, which discussed the importance of creating an entrepreneurial community that shared …
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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 ever Dare to be Digital Indie Showcase at this year's Protoplay event. We say resilient because Colin ran his entire …
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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 reporting from this year's Edinburgh Interactive, reporting the gig like you were actually there! Now we add a new guest …
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 we hear they're working on a new game. We were lucky enough to see Bad Hotel in development, during an …
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 adds more moves, modes and umm, mayhem than EVER BEFORE... Wrestling Manager has been tweaked, updated and changed based on …
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 of the three day ProtoPlay event, which drew in a record crowd of over 10,000. Players, developers, families, students and …
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