IT has begun. Dare to be Digital 2013, the games design and development competition for students is now LIVE in the city of Dundee. Fifteen teams from all around the world have come together for the next nine weeks to build a new and original game, before demonstrating it in front of thousands of families, …
V&A Appoints BAFTA Winner As First Ever Game Designer In Residence
The V&A Museum "the world's greatest museum of art and design" has appointed its first ever Game Designer In Residence. It's someone who may be familiar to Scottish Games Network readers. Sophia George is (deep breath now), a former Abertay Student, the chair of SwallowTail Games (creator of Tick Tock Toys), which is a Dare to …
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Dare to be Digital Announces Development Mentors
Dare to be Digital, the world's leading competition for student game developers has announced the developer accord members for the 2013 event. Developer accord members are companies who give up time to provide guidance and mentoring for the 15 teams which will be developing games for nine weeks over the summer. This year, the teams …
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Let The Right One In: New Audio Game From National Theatre Scotland And Quartic Llama
Other is an entirely new type of game, created by one of Dundee's most exciting new game developers. It exemplifies the fact that interactive media is changing every aspect of the creative industries, in new and unexpected ways. It's also an important project because it brings together a number of partners, including many that games …
Accredited Graduate Internships From Dundee University
The use of interns is a subject which has raised a great deal of controversy across several industries in the last few years. Unpaid internships have attracted criticism from student groups, industry bodies and even government. This has led many companies to become wary of interns, if not avoid them outright. Which can be a …
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Siege Games – Little Shocks
If you've been paying attention over the last week, you'll have spotted our latest, rather splendid banner, which comes from Siege Games, a new outfit in Dundee, founded by two former Abertay graduates - and a current student. The company is hard at work on a new title, Little Shocks, a game which challenges players …
BAFTA PLAY – Glasgow, May 8th…
BAFTA PLAY is the first EVER BAFTA Scotland games event. It's taking place on WEDNESDAY 8TH MAY at Glasgow Caledonian University's Saltire Centre, kicking off at 6:30pm. It gives visitors from the film, television and games industries, a chance to meet and see the winners of this year's BAFTA New Talent Awards and the Scottish …
IDEAScotland: New Innovation Centre Opens In Dundee
IDEAScotland (Innovation and Digital Enterprise Alliance Scotland) is a new innovation centre located in Dundee's University of Abertay. The centre will support start-ups in the digital, technology and creative sectors. IDEAScotland has been created by Scottish internet giant brightsolid, along with DC Thomson, the university of Dundee and the university of Abertay. It will offer successful …
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Unicorn Space Command – Game Jam Title Hits Windows App Store
Unicorn Space Command is a brand new game, created by Martin Grant, 2nd year Games Technology Student at the University of the West of Scotland (that's right, there IS life outside Abertay). Martin took part in a recent games jam at UWS sponsored by Microsoft. Using Construct 2, an HTML5 games editor, he came up …
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Abertay University Launches ‘Code Bar’ Selling Student Game Prototypes To Developer/Publishers
The University of Abertay in Dundee today launched The Code Bar, a new service which allows game prototypes created by students to be purchased by developers and publishers who wish to complete them and take them to market. The goal of the project is to unlock valuable intellectual property created by students at Abertay University and …