Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Lucky Frame, a new development studio based in Edinburgh. Focusing on "interfaces for music using games consoles and mobile devices' and "other fun stuff", Lucky Frame is the brain child of Jon Brodsky and long-time Scotishgames hero Yann Seznec. The company's focus on musical interfaces and interesting stuff based around …
Quarrel Seen In The Wild
Following the shock revelation that Denki's long-delayed (and highly anticipated) Quarrel is heading for multiple platforms later this year, the game has received several favourable mentions in the press. Now you can follow, friend and favour the ravishing risk-like rogues of Quarrel on your very own Facebook for updates, new materials and the latest news …
Dare 2011: GO!
It's that time again. 15 teams from 16 universities around the world are now in Dundee, with only NINE weeks to create a working videogame, before showing it off to members of the public at the ProtoPlay event in central Dundee in August. This year's event is larger than ever before. Entries were received from …
Introducing – Deep Pixel
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a new company to the Scottishgames family. Deep Pixel is an independent studio, based in the glamorous west end of Glasgow. The company's first project is a genuine, honest-to-goodness book. Unity 3 Blueprints is a guide to the hugely popular Unity technology, being used by developers and studios worldwide. It …
Digital Spark Conference, 29-30th June 2011
The second Digital Spark conference takes place at the University of Abertay at the end of June. The conference focuses on the creation, use and protection of Intellectual Property within the creative industries. Alongside presentations from companies such as Google, Sony, Universal Music, Sega and Aardman, Digital Spark offers introductory workshops, or indeed master classes, …
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iBomber Defence – Now On STEAM
Cobra's ridiculously addictive tower defence game iBomber Defence continues its apparently unstoppable blitzkrieg, across gaming platforms, with Steam the latest to fall to the game's fabulous blend of action and strategy. Available now for both PC and Mac, iBomber Defence is priced at a very reasonable £3.49. It's too late for us, but you might …
Dare ProtoPlay – August 12-14 – DUNDEE CITY CENTRE
ProtoPlay is the culmination of the whole Dare to be Digital competition. It's a three day celebration of games, gaming and creativity. The teams which have competed over the previous ten weeks, have three days to demonstrate their prototypes to the public, gather votes and impress the hell out of the industry judges. Around this …
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Quarrel Finds Publisher, Heads To iOS
There have been a number of fairly exciting announcements coming from this weeks Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) games trade show out in LA. Sony Microsoft and Nintendo are all doing jolly exciting things. New hardware. More games. Another Halo. The usual bits and pieces you'd expect really. However the 2011 E3 was marked by an …
sTAGgering To Greatness…
Do you see what we did there? Happy birthday to Dundee mobile powerhouse Tag, which celebrated its fifth birthday this week. Alongside cake, jelly, ice cream and a pin the tail on the tester competition, the studio celebrated - as you would - with a 24 hour #TagHack - in which their development folks split …
YoYo Games – Updates, Releases & The Future Of Games…
YoYo Games, the company behind the popular Game Maker programme, which allows users to create and publish their own games, has been busy lately. Very busy. Technology updates, new games, new partnerships, new team members AND courses teaching Game Maker are all now in progress - putting YoYo very firmly at the front of the …
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