Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Last weekend saw teams of artists, programmers and designers, put their skills to the test by competing in the first ever ChilliSource Game Jam. Teams were given 48 hours to create a game of their choice using the ChilliSource Engine in a battle to win £1,000 prize money. The ChilliWorks team have spent hours playing through …
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Calling all indies, students and Dare to be Digital applicants! We are proud to announce the very first ChilliSource game jam. A 48-hour weekend event where participating teams create a prototype game using the new ChilliSource engine and compete to win £1,000 cash! The ChilliSource Game Jam is hosted remotely and therefore open to everyone, …
D3 is a party for people who work in Dundee's gaming industry! This is a fantastic opportunity to share stories, have a laugh and get to know the other professional game devs who live and work in Dundee. The event takes place on 3rd April at 6pm in Brae's Function Suite, Perth Road. There are free …
Tag Games is looking to fill a number of roles located in our studios based in Dundee, Scotland. Listed bellow are a number of exciting new position which we're looking for fill immediately. We have an ongoing pursuit for talented, ambitious individuals to join our highly skilled teams; if a position you're interested in isn't listed, drop us an email to let us …
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 140,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see …
Imagine a world without colour, where the sky, the trees and the grass are all as white as cotton. It’s a strange world, where eggs fall from the sky to be looked after by two strange men in bobble-hats. Welcome to the world of White, CatherineWheels Theatre Company’s smash-hit show for children aged two to four. …
Hunted Cow has established itself as an expert in the online role-playing game market and is now doing the same in the mobile strategy genre. The company's latest release is Tank Battle: East Front 1941. It's another title created in collaboration with strategy specialists HexWar and marks the studio's first collaboration with Lordz Games Studio, the company behind Panzer …
A couple of weeks ago we attended the Crossover Labs Inspiration Day in central Edinburgh. If you read the review, you'll know we rather enjoyed it. You can read another review here. It brought together speakers, creators and experts from the film, digital and interactive worlds, for a day which was actually inspirational, exciting and …
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Towards the end of 2013 we heard about the latest project underway at Ruffian Games in Dundee. Tribal Towers was the company's first indie project, a new and original game, in which players built their own armoured and armed towers, while trying to destroy their opponent's. Then it went quiet. Ruffian slipped back into stealth …
...Ducky Fuzz! The latest release from indie wunderkind and one man games dynamo, Smiling Bag (aka Stewart Hogarth) is the intriguingly named Ducky Fuzz. It features ducks. And waves and bread. According to the App Store description: Ducky Fuzz is a simple game about juggling ducks on the ocean by controlling the waves, avoiding sea …