Having helped countless kids make a menagerie of folded paper pets with the aid of Japanese origami sensei Mr Shingu, the team at Stormcloud Games has just launched their follow-up title, just in time for the scary parts of the year. Mr Shingu's Paper Halloween turns the scary knob up to 11, or possibly 13,... Continue Reading →
Ambitious publishing house Hunted Cow has signed up yet another title for its growing portfolio. Â The latest deal, will bring the BAFTA award winning game Mr Montgomery's Debonair Facial Hair to iOS and Android in November 2013. The innovative 2D action-arcade game challenges players to become the ultimate top lip topiarist, under the barbershop tutelage... Continue Reading →
Hunted Cow's progress from obscure development studio to publishing behemoth is continuing.  The latest studio to sign a publishing agreement with the Elgin empire is Dundee's Red Radiant Media. The companies will be bringing an original new title, Planet Rush to iOS and Android later this year.  While initial details are scarce, Planet Rush sounds like... Continue Reading →
The superb, local-multiplayer duel-em-up Gentlemen from Edinburgh's Lucky Frame is OUT NOW for you lucky PC and Mac owners. The game is a Victorian-themed, bowler-hatted, multiplayer deathmatch, which in this incarnation pits two, three or four players against each other upon a single, blood-drenched device, Forsooth. Like all of Lucky Frame's titles, Gentlemen's glorious graphics... Continue Reading →
Lucky Frame is a creative design studio based in Edinburgh. Â They're not a game developer - though their last few releases have been game-like. Â They're the recipients of critical acclaim for their last few titles and have a shiny BAFTA award for Bad Hotel, released in 2012. The company has worked on a variety of... Continue Reading →
If there's one defining characteristic of game developers in Scotland, it would be taciturnity. Â A habitual unwillingness to gleefully engage in conversation about one's latest game, or a suspicion that showing more than bare tolerance for the aforementioned title is, somehow... well, vulgar. Â The sort of activity that one might expect of frauds, charlatans or... Continue Reading →
Hunted Cow, the highlands-based developer and publisher behind games including Tank Battle: North Africa, Battle Dungeon: Risen and Fallen Sword, has signed a deal with Dundee's Criss Cross Games, to bring the studio's first title, Crystal Reign, to market on a number of platforms, beginning with iOS and Android tablets. Details on the game are... Continue Reading →
As of today, we’ve been in business for 2 years. It’s scary how quickly the time has gone by. We could describe the past year as ‘tumultuous’ to say the least and it’s been an awesome learning experience. It’s still very early days for Guerilla Tea, but throughout the last year we’ve built up a... Continue Reading →
Codeplay is an enigma.  One of Scotland's most successful technology companies, with a truly global reputation, yet they work on such secret projects that most people never know about all the consoles, mobiles and devices it helps shape, optimise and prepare for developers to build the next generation of awesome upon. Now Codeplay is hiring.  The... Continue Reading →
Peter van der Linden, Evangelist at Immersion, San Jose - creators and distributors of haptic effects for Android game developers, will be in Dundee on Monday 24th June. Peter told us: The focus of the talk will be a briefing on how Android game developers can easily add haptic effects to their games, using a free... Continue Reading →
