Attend Pocket Gamer Connects – Free
Attend next week’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital 6 event – FREE – with the Scottish Games Network
Case Study: Hyper Luminal Games
From work-for-hire to original Intellectual Property. Hyper Luminal Games’ focus on people and revenue provides a blueprint for growing a successful studio. “One week in we realised – this is hard!” Stuart Martin, Co-founder and …
Nae Danger: New Game Tackles Knife Crime
Nae Danger is a new choose-your-own-adventure game aimed at schools and youth organisations across Scotland to help young people understand more about the dangers of carrying knives.
8-Bit Homebrew Bundle features Dundee’s Lowtek Games
Proof that no matter how strange your ideas are, there really is someone out there just like you, Lowteck’s Ally Low has announced that his modern NES game Flea is now available as part of 8-Bit Homebrew Bundle featuring three other anachronistic indie gems.
BAFTA Scotland Guru Live Online: Entries Open
Entries are now open for the BAFTA Scotland Guru Live Online programme.
Guru is a virtual festival aimed at helping new up-and-coming talent in film, games and television get to the next stage in their career.
Dwerg Saga: A Cult Classic In The Making
If you follow SGN TV on YouTube you may have already seen our Dwerg Saga feature. Over there we focussed more on the development of the game and its ongoing evolution with the game’s mastermind, …
Development Update: Cloud Jumper
Cloud Jumper, the serene new exploration game from Hyper Luminal, is a bit of a curveball from the Dundee-based studio. We speak to Creative Director, Rob Madden about the game’s sandbox style and stylish visuals.
Amicable Animal on SOLAS 128
“Originally I started making SOLAS because I really enjoyed older C64 games like Reflektor, and (admittedly obscure) tile-based puzzle games like S.C. OUT. These games were all about cause and effect, and about learning how the different systems interacted with each other.”
Event: Start Your Own Games Business
Thinking about starting your own games company but aren’t sure where to begin? You’re not alone. Scotland has seven universities across the country producing games-related graduates. Almost every college is offering game development at HNC …
Tentacle Zone Incubator – Apply Now
Headed up by London-based independent developer Payload Studios, the Tentacle Zone Incubator is a programme offering mentorship, networking opportunities and an all-round games industry insight to independent developers with disabilities or neurodiversites, who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, are of an underrepresented gender, or are POC or LGBTQ+.