Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Panelists Include Representatives Of WarDog, West College Scotland, Amicable Animal, Cobra Mobile & Heriot Watt University - Chaired by Michael Marra MSP The Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics 2024 takes place in August with a five-day programme of over 30 events, in the home of Scottish politics at Holyrood. This year, for the first time ever, …
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CYGNI: All Guns Blazing is a twin-stick vertical scrolling shooter (shmup!) that delivers old-school nostalgia with next-generation high-quality graphics, animation and intense action. It's OUT NOW for PlayStation5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, the Epic Games Store, and Blacknut games streaming service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t03Ou2Mrzvk CYGNI is the first release from Edinburgh-based Keelworks and is published worldwide by …
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On August 1st 1989 the fresh-faced youngsters of DMA Design moved into their first office space, above a restaurant at the foot of Perth Road - officially 134b Nethergate - in Dundee. According to official games legend Mike Dailly (seriously, he's got the award and everything...): While the influence DMA has over the Games Industry …
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Scotland's Games Strategy: Back in March and April we held workshops across the country to gather data from the whole games community and make sure that the action plan was based upon the issues, opportunities and challenges identified by games sector itself. We held 16 in-person and online workshops at which over 1000 data points …
Grave Gunner - a brand-new first-person shooter from one-man indie studio Dire Quoll - is OUT NOW for Windows PC via Steam. The game is a slick, fast-paced gothic gun-slinging adventure through nightmarish legions of the undead. Players take the role of the gunslinger, dual-wielding powerful pistols and avoiding the endless waves of enemies with …
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Red Rampant a new narrative-driven action-adventure game set during the Scottish Wars of Independence and Robert the Bruce’s battle for the Scottish crown is now in early access on Steam - and has already been nominated for a major award. The game offers players the chance to ask: If you could, how would you (re)write …
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Cobra Mobile, the Dundee-based studio behind hit games such as the iBomber franchise, Towers Of Everland, Storm In A Teacup, Cobi Hoops 2 and Let's Go Rocket is back, with the bite-sized hypercasual mobile game: What Everyone's Playing. With five game modes and a 'ton' of fun characters to unlock, the game promises instant pick-up-and-play …
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Scotland's First Large-Scale Blockchain/Web 3 Event Blockstart Scotland, the country’s first large-scale Web3 event is taking over the Barras Art & Design (BAaD) in Glasgow on August 1st and 2nd, 2024.The event organisers are promising a "kaleidoscope of Web3 topics!" Covering high-level topics including governance and enterprise, Blockstart Scotland will also explore games, sports, music, …
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Edinburgh Theatre Announces Immersive Creatives Its First Ever Event For Immersive Creators, Developers & Students Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre - the home of new writing - is holding its first ever event for developers and creators working with immersive technology (VR/AR/XR/MR). Immersive Creatives is part of the theatre's Festival programme, taking place at 18:00 on August …
Gestalt: Steam & Cinder, the eagerly anticipated action RPG developed by Metamorphosis Games, with co-development provided by Dundee-based Pocket Sized Hands, is now available on Steam. Published by Fireshine Games and executive produced by gaming personalities Jesse Cox and Brooke “Dodger” Thorne, Gestalt: Steam and Cinder immerses players within an elaborate, steam-powered world as they …
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