Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
After the news that Codeplay's new Research & Development division was opening, we sat down with the company's CEO and founder, Andrew Richards to find out more about the company, what they do and their plans to make the future of interactive graphics ever more impressive... Scottish Games Network: Introduce yourself and give us a …
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Hunted Cow, the development studio behind games including Fallen Sword, Eldevin, Battle Dungeon: Risen, Tank Battle: 1944 and Civil War: 1863 are looking for paid interns, to work with the company over the summer. These are PAID positions, offering minimum national wage and are full time (40 hours per week, 8 x weeks contract). As Hunted Cow describes …
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Celtic Heroes, the MMMORPG created by One Thumb Mobile has evolved. The world's first large-scale Mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game has been updated, with a major new content pack which more than doubles the size of the game. Celtic Heroes: Dragonfire introduces three entirely new playable areas, twice as many enemies, hundreds of …
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The brand new Scottish Women In Games group is holding it's inaugural event tomorrow evening at the DCA in Dundee. The group was created to support, highlight and address the issue of women currently working in the interactive industry, as well as encourage more women and girls to consider a career in the games sector. …
Ambitious Dundee-based developer Guerilla Tea organised and ran two workshops for teenagers with learning disabilities earlier this year. They've already shared some of their experiences here on SGN... The goal of the workshop was to show that creating games and working within the games industry is far more open and inclusive than many people might …
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Game In Scotland, the country's largest recruitment event for the videogames, i nteractive and digital media sector has today announced it's keynote speaker for 2013. Romana Ramzan will be opening the whole event. If you've not met Romana at some point in the last few years, you've clearly not been to any of the …
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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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Breaking news from the front lines of the games event horizon, the 2013 Game In Scotland event is ON. The country's larges games recruitment fair takes place in Fat Sam's Nightclub, Dundee from 12pm-5pm on Saturday March 9th. If you're a student, a graduate, a freelancer, an industry veteran looking for a new position, or …
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We've just added a grand total of NINE new jobs to the Scottish Games Network JOBS page this morning. They're all from game developers or technology companies and cover a huge range of roles, across Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh. This is our biggest JOBS update ever - and there are more to come. If you're …
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One Thumb Mobile is one of the country's most experienced mobile developers. Based in central Glasgow, the company has worked with some very large licenses, media and entertainment companies to produce branded games and apps for every variety of mobile. IN 2011 the company launched an original new massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG for those …
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