Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
That was fun... Game In Scotland took place on Saturday afternoon. This year's event moved out of the grim and slightly sticky Fat Sam's nightclub, which had been its home for the last eight years and moved it into the spring sunshine in Abertay University's brand new games centre of excellence. The 2014 Game In …
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The all new and officially ground-breaking Freelance Directory on your friendly neighbourhood Scottish Games Network is now live... Covering every aspect of work in the games and interactive sectors, the directory is the first of its kind. It provides freelancers with a way to reach a community of several hundred development studios, tech companies and …
Saturday March 1st is the date. Dundee is the location. Game In Scotland is back for 2014 - bigger and better than ever before. This year's GIS offers something for everyone - whether you're looking for a job, starting your own company, working on a new project, or looking for advice from industry experts. Funded …
Freelancers, contractors - we want YOU. If you're based in Scotland and offering services within the interactive industry, then we want to help. After the success of the Company Directory (the second most accessed page in the entire site), it makes sense to pull in those people working in Scotland who are not part of …
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Zapcoder, the games technology company in Glasgow is looking for two interns to join the team and help the company grow in 2014. Zapcoder needs to multi-skilled people to work across a diverse range of skills including community, communications, research, events, testing and social media. These are paid positions and while they are initially available for a …
We've just added several new contract programming positions from the team at Ruffian Games in Dundee. If you've not come across Ruffian before, they're the team behind Crackdown 2 and a whole slew of Kinect games including Kinect Star Wars, Kinect Nike+ Training, Kinect Playfit and Kinect Sesame Street Season 2. There's no word on …
After several delays and changes in venue, the SGN Launch event finally reaches Glasgow. Taking place on the evening of Wednesday 27th of November at GMAC in the Trongate, Glasgow, this is YOUR opportunity to find out our plans for the SGN, ask questions, provide input and help make the Scottish games industry better. Last …
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Dundee's Tag Games is now recruiting for multiple positions across the studio. If you're not familiar with Tag, they're a rapidly growing studio responsible for a wide range of games on mobile devices. They've worked with a wide range of film and television properties, working on games including Doctor Who: Mazes Of Time, Heroes Of …
Glasgow's One Thumb Mobile is currently recruiting for a QA tester to work on the company's hugely popular Celtic Heroes MMO. The position is initially a three-month contract, but could well be extended for the right person. Ideally, One Thumb Mobile would like someone with experience of testing massively multiplayer online titles. You can find …
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4J Studios, the company behind the multi-million selling, multi-award winning Xbox 360 version of Minecraft is now looking for experienced console programmers to help them shape the future of the insanely popular game across other platforms, both current and next generation. Minecraft, continues to be a global phenomenon. The Xbox 360 version of the game …
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