Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The European Parliament has approved the European Commission's new Creative Europe programme, with a budget of €1.46Bn over the next seven years. This is a 9% increase on current funding and is aimed at european culture, cinema, television, games, music, literature, performing arts, heritage and related areas. It also explicitly states that this funding is …
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If you're working in the games industry and below the age of 30, then you're eligible for the 2013 MCV 30 Under 30, the magazine's annual list of the up-and-coming execs working in the games sector. MCV is asking readers to nominate their favourite up-and-coming stars of the UK games industry – your own staff …
There are less than ten tickets left for the 2013 Dare+ workshop. It's an intensive one day workshop exploring every aspect of starting and running a game development studio. It's easier now than at any point in history to build and release a game, but achieving long-term, sustainable success is more difficult. Dare+ is running …
Cross Creative is one of those amazing, unique and pioneering projects that you can't quite believe exists. It's supported by several major organisations including Channel 4, Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise and over the last several years, it has included participants from many of the country's leading game developers, animators, technology companies and creative studios. …
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You may not have come across Glasgow's TRC media yet. The company is a charitable organisation, which delivers research and training programmes to the television, interactive and wider creative industries. Like it or not, the reality is that digital and interactive media is fundamentally changing almost every aspect of the creative world. From the way …
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We were delighted to be invited to Guerilla Tea’s second workshop with Enable Scotland’s East Renfrewshire Local Area Coordination (LAC) Team; with some parents and LAC’s there with the kids. For those of you who don’t know LAC’s support people with disabilities to think about and plan for a life that makes sense to them. …
Gen Up Scotland is a training programme for recent graduates and emerging digital creatives. Created by TRC Media in Glasgow it is a five week course which gives a maximum of eight participants access to a wide range of Scotland's leading media companies and gives a overview of what it’s really like to work in …