Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Believe it or not, it's nearly ten years since the Scottish Games Network first launched. In 2005 we created a simple Yahoo group to help the growing number of game developers keep in touch. It's grown since then to become a dedicated website and a community spread over all of the significant social channels. It's …
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Develop Magazine is putting together its list of the UK's 100 top developers, to be released in June, in association with the fine folks at UKIE. In past years, studios were judged solely on revenue generation. However this year's list promises to be rather different. Here's how the magazine describes the 2013 process: Studios of …
NESTA (the National Endowment For Science Technology and the Arts - but you knew that...) is holding a series of events across Scotland, designed to help young people (kids aged 13+) to access new technology, digital media and interactivity. One Day Digital gives participants the chance to experiment with, play with and explore a variety …
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So you're a games/apps/web/tech veteran. Now what? It might be a good opportunity to change up your weekend and help shape some young impressionable minds by volunteering as a mentor/judge at the much talked about Young Rewired State event happening in Aberdeen this weekend. The event challenges teenagers to come up with inventive coded solutions …
Tern TV, although best known as a TV production company, has a well established and pioneering digital group. The company's latest venture into the interactive world was recently picked up by Kotaku, who looked at Tern's new Digital Adaptations project. Digital Adaptations takes classic literary works and reimagines them within a virtual environment. Turning books into …
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