Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Scottish Borders – A groundbreaking Esports development event took place last week, attracting over 100 pupils from secondary schools across the region. The event, a collaborative effort between Borders College, Scottish Borders Council, DYW Borders, and South of Scotland Enterprise, aimed to spark young minds and ignite a passion for Esports and the wider creative …
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The University of Stirling has teamed up with Edinburgh-based studio Glitchers to launch Restore, a new browser-based video game designed to give players a hands-on experience with environmental restoration while contributing to critical real-world research. The release of Restore highlights how video games can powerfully support real-world tasks and research into global challenges like biodiversity …
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The Scottish Games Network has officially relaunched its Discord channel, marking the first step in an exciting redesign of our platform and community. This is part of a larger initiative to make SGN not just the news channel, but the central hub for Scotland’s vibrant and diverse games community. We hope this relaunch offers creators, …
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Scottish game developer Joe Richardson is very tired, but is extremely proud to finally announce the launch of Death of the Reprobate, the standalone conclusion to the hilarious Immortal John Triptych, on Steam (for PC & Mac). Death of the Reprobate follows on from Richardson’s previous titles, Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary, …
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The next meeting of the Cross-Party Group (CPG) for Scotland's Games Ecosystem takes place at Glasgow University's Advanced Research Centre (ARC) on Monday 18th November, from 13:00-15:00. This meeting of the CPG will focus on two key areas of activity around support for the entire games ecosystem in Scotland and developments in games education. Register …
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Help Glasgow-Based Indie Ludus Pax Bring Its Second Game To Life... Scottish indie studio Ludus Pax has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming game, Path to Serenity, promising to offer players a serene escape from the stresses of daily life. Described as a "calm, contemplative adventure," the game aims to create a space where …
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Debut Title From Studio Lets Players Control The NPCs, Not The Hero Edinburgh-based College Fun Games has released its first game, The Protagonish, a self-funded, self-published, bite-sized, hand-crafted point-and-click adventure game, with a grappling hook and dad jokes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RErXIvtOskU The Protagonish doesn’t feature Sir Sandford, a fearless, feckless knight on an epic quest to defeat …
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Yesterday, Barclays' Glasgow HQ hosted the highly anticipated Scottish Games Frenzy 2024, bringing together the Scottish (and UK) games industry. Key creators, developers, and stakeholders from across Scotland were in attendance, with many smaller indie studios and new teams taking part. In a year marked by economic uncertainty and industry layoffs, the Scottish Games Frenzy …
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Develop, the UK's most popular game developer event game development conference is leaving its Brighton home for a one-day event, Develop: North, which takes place in Liverpool. Develop: North takes place on November 14, 2024, at The Spine in Liverpool. Develop has become a mainstay on the UK game industry calendar and takes place in …
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The Rubber Keyed Wonder - a new feature-length documentary about the legendary Sinclair Spectrum - is coming to the DCA in Dundee for its Scottish premiere on Sunday 24th November 2024. Book now In the late 1970s, British inventor Sir Clive Sinclair envisioned creating an affordable home computer that could change the world. In 1982, …
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