Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Angry Mango, the team behind the Dare to be Digital and BAFTA-award winning title, Mush has launched today, exclusively for Windows mobile phones. Mush offers an original blend of physics based gameplay, coupled with touch and tilt controls. Players must navigate a complex, but charming cartoon world by tilting the phone and making Mush rise …
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The Tag celebratory 6th anniversary game jam has drawn to a close. Â All teams completed wonderful and marvellous things. Â Who won? We cannot reveal that. Â For that, readers, you must visit the Tag blog. There you can see all of the games, find out who won and hear emotional, heartfelt pleas from the employees to …
Virtual worlds company Huzutech, has signed a deal with US-based Little Airplane to develop an avatar creator for the company's popular Small Potatoes brand. If you're unfamiliar with Small Potatoes, it's a kids TV show in which four singing potatoes travel the world, making friends, making music and living the dream, man. Â Like Bon Jovi, …
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Are you an aspiring game designer or developer? Â Do you want to take your ideas and bring them to life, as part of an actual real world business? Â Now there's a faster, simpler way to get the sort of inside knowledge and insight which eludes some companies entirely. Dare+ is a new programme, created by …
Reloaded Productions is the team behind the resurrected and re-imagined APB: Reloaded title, which hit the market last December. The game took the core of the late, not incredibly lamented APB and redeveloped it as a digital only free-to-play title. Â In the first few weeks, the game attracted over 3,000,000 players and has been generating …
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Breaking news from Ubisoft reveals that Tag Games, still working furiously on their 6th birthday game jam, are also working on the mobile version of the RPG puzzle title Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes. The game is coming out for iOS and Android. Â The game is a port from the original DS title, created …
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Unless you're clinically dead, pathologically uninterested in games, or use the Internet exclusively for porn/lolcats, then you'll be aware of BitSocket. Â They've picked up the mantle of the late and very much lamented Consolevania, producing online news, reviews and games coverage. Now the BitSocket team may - and we're going to repeat that in a …
Games Analytics, Edinburgh's data delving wizards, have been signed by BBC Worldwide to support the new Top Gear: Stunt School Revolution mobile game. Games Analytics has integrated their Predict technology into the game and is already improving player engagement for the free-to-play title. Â The game experience for different players has been optimised and redesign of …
The BAFTA-nominated Guerilla Tea has been in touch to tell us they're two years old this very day. Â Happy birthday GT. Â Why not celebrate with a cup of tea, a G&T or a par-T? Guerilla Tea are not celebrating with a 24 hour game jam. Â They are instead hard at work in their tiny office, …
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A week or so back, we mentioned that this year's Edinburgh Interactive Festival would feature a session called Thare Be Dragons, in which young, hopeful, aspiring game developers would pitch ideas to a panel of industry heavyweights, mavens and Simon Cowell-esque judges, in an effort to win the approbation and a bucket of free (pretend) …
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