Ladies and gentlemen, new indie studio, Mainly About Games, based in Edinburgh, is the latest company to join the Scottishgames family. Created by former Rockstar North senior and lead designer Anthony 'Tony' Gowland, MAG is focused on smaller titles, with 'solid gameplay, hooks and big budget polish' according to Tony's very professional press release, which …
Please Welcome Huzutech – Online, Social, Community & Virtual Worlds
Ladies & Gentlemen, please welcome a new company to the happy, hard-working Scottishgames family. Huzutech is based in Glasgow and is the creator of a new technology which allows online, browser-based virtual worlds to be developed. Aimed at the social and casual end of the gaming market, Huzutech works with brand and intellectual property (IP) …
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Chunk & Casual Games Mentioned In Today’s SUN
The good news keeps on coming today. Glasgow's Chunk Games has been featured in today's SUN, in a feature on the rise of casual games and how a game is actually put together. Chunk has even built a flash game for readers to try, in which the infamous Sun Bus, makes it way through Paris, …
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4J Studios To Create Minecraft for Xbox Live
While there's been nothing officially 'official' word crept out via the social networks yesterday that Dundee's 4J Studios will be responsible for bringing indie games phenomenon Minecraft, to Xbox Live Arcade. A Facebook update from one of the studio heads yesterday, stated: "Delighted to announce 4J Studios is developing Minecraft for XBLA. Respect to Notch …
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Please Welcome – Lucky Frame
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Lucky Frame, a new development studio based in Edinburgh. Focusing on "interfaces for music using games consoles and mobile devices' and "other fun stuff", Lucky Frame is the brain child of Jon Brodsky and long-time Scotishgames hero Yann Seznec. The company's focus on musical interfaces and interesting stuff based around …
Dare 2011: GO!
It's that time again. 15 teams from 16 universities around the world are now in Dundee, with only NINE weeks to create a working videogame, before showing it off to members of the public at the ProtoPlay event in central Dundee in August. This year's event is larger than ever before. Entries were received from …
Digital Spark Conference, 29-30th June 2011
The second Digital Spark conference takes place at the University of Abertay at the end of June. The conference focuses on the creation, use and protection of Intellectual Property within the creative industries. Alongside presentations from companies such as Google, Sony, Universal Music, Sega and Aardman, Digital Spark offers introductory workshops, or indeed master classes, …
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Dare ProtoPlay – August 12-14 – DUNDEE CITY CENTRE
ProtoPlay is the culmination of the whole Dare to be Digital competition. It's a three day celebration of games, gaming and creativity. The teams which have competed over the previous ten weeks, have three days to demonstrate their prototypes to the public, gather votes and impress the hell out of the industry judges. Around this …
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YoYo Games – Updates, Releases & The Future Of Games…
YoYo Games, the company behind the popular Game Maker programme, which allows users to create and publish their own games, has been busy lately. Very busy. Technology updates, new games, new partnerships, new team members AND courses teaching Game Maker are all now in progress - putting YoYo very firmly at the front of the …
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Outplay HQ – Dundee – OFFICIAL
When we last heard from Outplay Entertainment - the new social and mobile games publisher, founded by Douglas and Richard Hare - they had launched the company with some ambitious recruitment plans and the best wishes of the Scottish Government ringing in their ears. Then it went a little bit quiet. Well, it turns out …