The awards ceremony for the 2013 TIGA Awards took place last night. At an event which has been officially described as 'glittering', prizes were handed out to games and games companies from across the country. There were a wide range of Scottish companies and institutions nominated in various categories and we're delighted to say several …
Company Profile: Team Junkfish
As the number of companies in Scotland grows, it's becoming increasingly difficult to know who's out there and who's doing what. To counter this situation, we present the second entry in our all new Company Profile series. Ladies and Gentlemen, we present... Name of company: Team Junkfish Date founded: 2nd September 2013 Location: Dundee Website: …
The Scottish Games Network Launches As Scotland’s Video Games Industry Body
Believe it or not, it's nearly ten years since the Scottish Games Network first launched. In 2005 we created a simple Yahoo group to help the growing number of game developers keep in touch. It's grown since then to become a dedicated website and a community spread over all of the significant social channels. It's …
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Cows Get Hirsute With Stylish BAFTA Winner
Ambitious publishing house Hunted Cow has signed up yet another title for its growing portfolio. The latest deal, will bring the BAFTA award winning game Mr Montgomery's Debonair Facial Hair to iOS and Android in November 2013. The innovative 2D action-arcade game challenges players to become the ultimate top lip topiarist, under the barbershop tutelage …
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Other Nominated For IndieCade Award
Quartic Lllama's innovative location-based game, Other, created in conjunction with the National Theatre Of Scotland has been nominated in the 2013 IndieCade - the International Festival of Independent Games. Taking place in Los Angeles in October 2013, IndieCade is the largest independent games festival in the good old US of A. Taking place across downtown …
Stormcloud Presents Paper, Pandas, Pregnancy & Propaganda
The team at Stormcloud Games have been pushing the boat out for their initial title, Mr Shingu's Paper Zoo. They were at Dare ProtoPlay's indie showcase, with branded t-shirts, iPads and boundless enthusiasm. The game was a big hit with kids and families and proved that the combination of paper folding, animal husbandry and tamagotchi …
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Dare To Be Digital – The Indie Conference – Day 2
Day two of the Dare 2013 indie festival took place on Friday 9th August. The theme of Convergence carried over from the previous day with an equally eclectic line-up of speakers and panels, examining issues around the ongoing evolution of the games industry. Like day one of the conference, there were some truly inspiring speakers …
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Dare to be Digital – The Indie Conference – Day 1
This year's Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay featured a two day indie conference, which focused on the issue of convergence - the ongoing overlap between video games and other areas of the arts and media, including film, television, literature and music. This was a bold move from Dare. Convergence is a topic which is normally …
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Dare to be Digital 2013 – The Games, The Talks, The Awards, The Crowds
At 5pm on Sunday the 11th of August, the 2013 Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay event drew to a close. The four day even in central Dundee, pulled in a record breaking crowd of 13,000 players, gamers, developers, designers, stars, ministers, legends and families. Fiona Hyslop, the Cabinet Secretary for Culture & External Affairs opened …
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Start Your Own Game Studio With Dare+
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 …