Development studio and augmented reality experts Red Radiant Media is recruiting. Â The company is looking for contractors across all roles, with options to extend the role and possibly join the team. We've not covered RRM before, so who is this new studio? Â According to the company: Red Radiant Media is based in sunny Dundee, Scotland. …
£100K Games Funding Competition Launched
There's a brand new game development competition in town. Â Well, the UK. Â TIGA, the Independent Game Developers Association is launching the competition today, with backing from Abertay University's Prototype Fund. Â It was officially announced by creative industries minister Ed Vaizey at this week's NESTA investment conference. All clear so far? Â Excellent. Â Here's the actual detail …
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IGDA Scotland – Dundee Meeting – November 30th
The November IGDA Scotland meeting has been booked, scheduled and reserved. Â This month's meeting take place in Dundee, at the University of Abertay's Hannah MacLure Centre, on November 30th at 7pm. Entrance is free, but space is limited, so you need to register to secure your place. Â The monthly meetings have proven very popular, with …
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Take A Bow
When the all new Scottishgames.net was launched, we thought long and hard about how to offer something new, fresh, zesty, delightful and useful to the individuals, companies, studios and games out there. Â One idea was to shun the idea of a static banner/logo for the site and instead invite contributions from all and sundry. To …
Outplay’s Word Trick Gets Wordier, Trickier And Even More Social
Outplay Entertainment is the new social/casual/mobile games publisher founded earlier this year by Doug and Richard Hare. Â Since the company was launched in February, it's had its head down, working away, recruiting staff and creating several original new games. The first of these, Word Trick, was released several weeks ago and has just received a …
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BAFTA In Scotland Award Winner – Quarrel
The 2011 British Academy Awards Scotland were here in central Glasgow last night. Â Alongside a veritable who's who of glamorous talent and fabulous celebrities, the awards recognised the best games created in Scotland. Three companies were nominated for the award. Â Cohort Studios (for Me Monstar, Hear Me Roar!), Cobra (for iBomber Defense) and Denki (for …
European Consortium Awarded 2.8M€ Grant For Research Into Low Energy Graphics Processing
A consortium of four technology companies - including Codeplay in Edinburgh - and two universities, has been awarded a grant of 2.9 million Euros, from the EU. Â The money will be used for research into the next generation of hardware for video games consoles. The consortium is comprised of four companies -Â Codeplay, Cambridge-based Geomerics, AI …
Cobra’s Storm In A Teacup Hits The ROKU
Cobra's Storm In A Teacup, which offers players the chance to fly a tiny boy-toting teacup through a dreamlike world of wonder, is now out on a brand new platform. The Roku is a streaming media player, which is available primarily in North America. Â It offers a range of streaming content, including the …
IGDA Scotland – We’re (Pretty much) Official…
The Scottish chapter of the International Game Developers Association is so new, it still has a shine and excitement to it, that contact with the cynical games industry types has yet to tarnish. The IGDA has, rather cleverly, roped in many of the new and up-and-coming developers around the country by rotating each monthly meeting …
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Playwrights’ Studio Scotland – 360 Narratives
Scotland's Playwrights' Studio has created the 360 Narratives course, to offer writers the opportunity to learn about and experience other forms of writing. Working in teams, writers and narrative creators from different fields will collaborate to create story worlds that can be exploited across a variety of media by looking at how to develop ideas …
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