Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
As the headline suggests, the Xbox 360 version of indie sensation Minecraft has been doing rather well. Microsoft announced at the end of the week that the game had broken existing sales records for first day sales. While no figures have been announced, the game was apparently making profit within the first hour of release, …
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We're aware that Minecraft was intelligently designed, by the Mojang hero team and has its roots very firmly in Sweden. However, today saw the release of Minecraft for the Xbox 360, created by the team at 4J Studios' development office in East Linton (for our readers in Dundee - that's NOT where you live...) If …
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+AsDesigned Games was formed in 2010 by several former Realtime Worlds employees; the small team was formed after the well publicised and unfortunate demise of the Dundee developer. The +ADG team consisted of a few former QA testers who simply wanted to create some fun games and boost their portfolios/CVs at the same time. After …
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