Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Readers of this blog, as clever and pretty as they undoubtedly are, may not have come across the Consolarium before. Â Describing itself as the 'Scottish Centre For Games & Learning', the Consolarium uses commercially available games - hardware and titles - within classrooms. Â Side stepping the serious games sector and instead looking at how to …
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As the headline suggests, Cohort Studios in Dundee has appointed its first marketing manager. Grant Alexander is the gentleman in question. With a background in retail, tourism and marketing to today's 'youths', Grant will be bringing a fresh approach to traditional games marketing. In the (admittedly very slick) press release, Mr Alexander commented: “This really …
The Scottish arm of the global games jam is GO. And is... progressing? Â Keep up to date with the latest from the competition here.
Tiger Games, the development studio created by Jamie Bryan (DMA, VIS, Tag) and Graeme Laws (DMA, DC, Denki and many more as a freelance) has just released a brand new version of Denki Blocks! for PSP through the PlayStation network in Europe. Promising over a hundred new levels, revised and refined controls, unlockable secrets and …
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Online games coaching FPS Trainer is heading for 10,000 users, just in time for its live tournament at the end of this week, at the Glasgow arm of the Global Games Jam (you may have noticed their lovely banner gracing the site this week...) The company is offering a prize for the 10,000th registered use, …
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The 2011 Dare to be Digital competition is now open for entries. Â The competition is open to students from any university or college of art, either complete teams of five, or individuals willing to join a team. It's no secret that Scottishgames.net is a HUGE fan of the competition. Â It's a unique opportunity for teams …
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Tealy & Orangey is a brand new online game from MainlyAboutGames.co.uk, aka Freakyzoid, aka Mr Anthony Gowland. Written in about seven days, as a bit of an exercise to practice Flash and Flixel, Tealy and Orangey is a platformer with a twist. Â You control two blobs - one teal and one orange (those colours are …
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Scottish Architecture & Design is looking for game designers/developers who can help them to create online games for the organisation's website. Â The designer can be an individual or part of a larger organisation. Â The only information about the game/s notes: "Content of the games will be developed by A+DS with technical advice from the appointed …
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The meeting which took place at the DCA in Dundee on Friday, drew in representatives from many of Scotland's game studios. Organised by NESTA, the meeting outlined the concept for the creation of a new games publisher, in which a number of developers have equity. NESTA itself would 'prime the pump' with a significant injection …
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Exciting! High Action! Visceral! Online! According to Ruffian's latest blog post, the company is already hard at work, with the follow up to Crackdown 2, the company's first release, which was released back in July 2010. Ruffian is now advertising a number of engineering roles to work on two, as yet undisclosed projects which promise …
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