Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Size DOES Matter, a frantic music-fuelled arcade game and winner of the last BAFTA Ones to Watch Award, is OUT NOW, published by Channel 4. The game was one of the three main winners at Abertay University’s Dare to be Digital contest in 2013, securing one of the ultra-exclusive nominations for the BAFTA Ones to Watch …
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Outplay's bubble-bursting, dragon saving arcade adventure Bubble Blaze has been downloaded a whopping ten million times since the game launched in November 2012. Released across multiple app store and platforms including the Apple App Store, Amazon, Google Play, Samsung and Nook, Bubble Blaze has been updated on an ongoing basis since its initial release and now …
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Dundee's Outplay has a new game in production. Alien Creeps TD is a classic tower defence game, in which players must defend the Earth against ravening hordes of heavily-armed, or possibly heavily-tentacled alien warriors, bent upon destruction and conquest. Earth forces are not unarmed themselves. Players command an arsenal of weaponry, created by mankind for …
The interactive adventurers at Pixel Blimp in Dundee are celebrating the launch of their latest title, Free The Network. It's an endless runner, which combines the ball-bearing-based blitzkrieg of Impossible Road, with the high-speed pixel perfect precision of Super Hexagon. Players must guide their mystical orb of righteous wonder through a flat-coloured landscape populated solely …
A new Glasgow-based development studio, Haywire Robot has released it's second title. Can't Save Dave is a space-based endless runner in which Dave's planet is invaded by an aggressive bipedal race in spacesuits, with blasters. Dave's not taking any chances. He's off. He's going to leg it. With your help... Built for iOS, Can't Save Dave is …
Dundee's Triple B games has been working quietly in the background for the last several years, producing a wide range of game for Xbox Live Arcade including Flowrider, Wushi, College Lacrosse 2011, Zombies 8 My Cookiez and Fitba. Now, with their latest release, World Soccer, the studio has moved to Apple's iPhone and iPad. World Soccer …
Hunted Cow's has published Hexwar's Civil War: 1862, the prequel to strategy wargame Civil War: 1863, has hit the Mac App Store. Civil War: 1862 features an 8 mission tutorial and 53 detailed missions across 7 campaigns. All missions can be played as both the Union and Confederates (apart from the tutorial). The Mac OSX release includes all …
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Hunted Cow has released its latest strategy title for mobile phones. Ancient Battle: Alexander is the second in the company's series, set in the distant past. Like its predecessor, Ancient Battle: Rome, the game has been developed by strategy experts, Hexwar. Ancient Battle: Rome did very well, picking up the No.1 slot in the strategy …
The Edinburgh-based independent development studio Made With Numbers is back, with a major update to Gem Zap. A new, free version joins the paid app and the game has received a huge update to change the look and feel throughout. The game challenges players to zap matching gems with a massive Tesla coil. Zap three of a …