Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The interest in computing and game development in schools has been on the rise recently. Encouraging kids to explore the opportunities of game development, as well as a wider understanding of computing software development and the whole science and technology thing. Its all very encouraging. The latest event to be announced is a mini game …
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Other is an entirely new type of game, created by one of Dundee's most exciting new game developers. It exemplifies the fact that interactive media is changing every aspect of the creative industries, in new and unexpected ways. It's also an important project because it brings together a number of partners, including many that games …
BAFTA PLAY is the first EVER BAFTA Scotland games event. It's taking place on WEDNESDAY 8TH MAY at Glasgow Caledonian University's Saltire Centre, kicking off at 6:30pm. It gives visitors from the film, television and games industries, a chance to meet and see the winners of this year's BAFTA New Talent Awards and the Scottish …
Unicorn Space Command is a brand new game, created by Martin Grant, 2nd year Games Technology Student at the University of the West of Scotland (that's right, there IS life outside Abertay). Martin took part in a recent games jam at UWS sponsored by Microsoft. Using Construct 2, an HTML5 games editor, he came up …
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We were delighted to be invited to Guerilla Tea’s second workshop with Enable Scotland’s East Renfrewshire Local Area Coordination (LAC) Team; with some parents and LAC’s there with the kids. For those of you who don’t know LAC’s support people with disabilities to think about and plan for a life that makes sense to them. …
NESTA (the National Endowment For Science Technology and the Arts - but you knew that...) is holding a series of events across Scotland, designed to help young people (kids aged 13+) to access new technology, digital media and interactivity. One Day Digital gives participants the chance to experiment with, play with and explore a variety …
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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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As chief organiser Brian McDonald pressed play on the audio file you could see that everyone in the room wasn’t paying full attention. Only as the regular, pumping, sound of a heart-beat was heard throughout the room did the jammers taking place realise that this was it, this was the theme. Nothing added, nothing taken …
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As we've mentioned in the recent past, the Global Games Jam is a 48 hour competition which challenges teams of developers to create a brand new, original game using whatever tools, hardware and platforms they so desire. It's a full on challenge, running continuously over two days and incorporates themes and bonus achievements for creating …
So you're a games/apps/web/tech veteran. Now what? It might be a good opportunity to change up your weekend and help shape some young impressionable minds by volunteering as a mentor/judge at the much talked about Young Rewired State event happening in Aberdeen this weekend. The event challenges teenagers to come up with inventive coded solutions …