Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
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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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, 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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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 …
It's been something of a hectic week for everyone's favourite industry body. TIGA has been even busier than its normal hectic pace and is spitting out good news like a happiness sprinkler filled with rainbows. The organisation started the week with news that it has been nominated for no less than SEVEN awards in the …
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Faster than the speed of news comes the breaking story that Cobra has moved into rather plush new office premises on Dundee's happening waterfront. The company's phone number remains the same, but you can now find Cobra at: Cobra Mobile Limited Unit 23, City Quay Camperdown Street Dundee, DD1 3JA
The International Game Developers Association is a global non-profit organisation serving games developers (according to the website). There was, very briefly, a chapter in Scotland, which met a couple of times in Stirling, on the basis that it was equally inconvenient for everyone. It didn't last however and while there are a number of individual …
iPhone users can now download and enjoy TWO brand new games from Edinburgh-based development studio Fat Bob Games. (For those of you who were brought up beneath rocks, or suffered in a non-literary household, Fat Bob wis Oor Wullie's heavier companion, who enjoyed the odd jeely piece). Fat Bob's first releases are two 'twin' games …
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Following the release of WarPath for the iPad, we caught up with the founder and chief code weaver of Whisky Biscuit, Stuart Gray, to ask him a few questions about the company, its games and its plans for the future... Scottishgames: Thank you for taking the time to speak to us, Stuart. So, starting at …
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It's been reported across all of the major games industry websites that Dundee's Cohort Studios is to close down, with all staff being laid off. All 25 members of staff have been given redundancy notices and the company is starting to wind down. This is despite the recent announcement of Cohort's first original title for PSN …