Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Last week, the global games industry turned its attention to Scotland. Thanks to the hard work of the Academy of Interactive Sciences (DICE Europe), the Scottish Games Association (SGDA), the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and countless others, there was an undeniable and welcome surge of energy, ambition, and recognition - both in the room and …
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Scotland's Games Strategy - It's a paradox in Scotland that the games sector is simultaneously a very high-profile success story and at the same time, nearly unknown, The major global franchises, including Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft and Red Dead Redemption, or legacy hits such as Lemmings are the 'go to' titles whenever anyone in the …
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It may seem strange to kick off the creation of a national strategy for games with a question as simple as 'What are games - where do we fit?" but these are fundamental and critical to making sure games are recognised, understood and supported more effectively moving forward. Before we dive into the data around …
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Scotland's Games Strategy: Back in March and April we held workshops across the country to gather data from the whole games community and make sure that the action plan was based upon the issues, opportunities and challenges identified by games sector itself. We held 16 in-person and online workshops at which over 1000 data points …
To date we have run 14 workshops online and across Scotland gathering data to create Scotland's Games Strategy. Participation has been great, with over 150 people taking part, from across the games ecosystem, with developers, publishers, educators, public sector and government all taking part and contributing over 1000 data points across ten separate topics. However, …
Studios, Colleges, Universities, Freelancers and ALL Games-Related Companies Welcome A series of workshops are being held across the country - and online - to ensure the whole games ecosystem has a chance to provide data and input to create Scotland's National Games Strategy - and we need your help. Announced in February 2024, the strategy …
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It's been a couple of weeks since we announced that the Government has given its backing to the creation of Scotland's Games Strategy. There has been a lot of work going on in the background since then and it's important that the whole games community understands what we're trying to do - and how we …
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Workshops To be Held Across Scotland & Online The Scottish Government has given its backing to the creation of a national games strategy, recognising the enormous commercial and transformative potential of games. This will make Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to have a strategy in place supporting the rapidly evolving games ecosystem. …
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