Shplem is the BAFTA-nominated game, created in just 48 hours at the Scottish Game Jam, which took place at the start of the year. As well as the BAFTA, the game won the best tech and best artwork awards at the jam. Now Team Shpleh has started a crowd-funding project to help them turn the …
What Is Conpulsion?
This is a guest editorial from long-standing friend of scottishgames.net Phil Harris... “What is Conpulsion?”, I hear you cry? Well let’s answer you all then. Conpulsion is Scotland’s Premier Gaming Convention. We bring people from all walks of gaming together with roleplaying, board games, wargames, card games and, introduced last year, video games all featured at the …
Tickets Going Fast For UKIE Scotland Launch Event
If you're in central Scotland on March 27th (next Tuesday), you owe it to yourself to come along to the first UKIE Scotland event focusing on accessing finance. Key speakers include Jo Twist and Andy Payne - the CEO and Chair of UKIE as well as representatives from a number of other organisations offering practical …
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Survey – Grown Up Gaming
It's request time, readers. Anthony Reynolds from Glasgow University is looking for people to help his research into gaming culture and mature content in videogames. It's not another survey into violent games = violent behaviour. Rather he's looking for input from gamers to help shape the research itself. If you can spare 10 minutes at …
Abertay Students Bag Big Bada Boom!
A team from Dundee's Abertay University has picked up first prize in the Samsung bada Student Developer Challenge. The competition challenged teams of students to create new games for Samsung's app store - starting with a gruelling 24 hour game jam. Tom DeMajo, Erin Michno and Ian Reynolds, collectively known as Quartic Llama, built Moeba, …
BAFTA New Talent Awards – Students/New Developers – Last Chance!
Students, new developers, indie studios, you have a few days left to enter a game in the NEW TALENT Awards. This is a great competition. It recognises creativity and new and up and coming game creators. It needs your input... If you're working on, or have just released your FIRST game, you should qualify for …
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Scottish Games Jam – Back, Bigger, Better, More
The Scottish Games Jam is the local outpost of the massive Global Game Jam - an annual competition which challenges teams to build an original new game in only 48 hours. Organised by the Independent Game Developers Association, the global games jam has run since 2008. Last year, the jam attracted over 6,500 competitors, in …
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