Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Me And The Giants, the game and app developer specialising in content for kids has released its back catalogue of educational game for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The company has released two of its app collections for Windows users: Tolva and Ting, a collection five neon-coloured, educational games and apps for pre-school children, featuring the …
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Glasgow's Mental Universe has released it's first title, M0B1US. The company designed, developed and released the game inonly three weeks - just to prove to themselves it could be done. M0B1US is a unique twist on the enormously popular endless runner genre. Rather than the landscape scrolling as the player moves, M0B1US uses all four sides of …
The team at Guerilla Tea are clearly not people to lounge around, resting on their laurels, sipping rum-based cocktails. Mere weeks after the company launched the Cancer busting game, Genes In Space: Play To Cure, it is launching a redeveloped version of their first (BAFTA nominated) game, The Quest. It's rather lovely. The goal is to …
Outplay's latest release is the terrifyingly titled Monster Legacy. It's a brand new title for iOS devices, in which players must explore secret dungeons, solve puzzles, capture a menagerie of monsters (the game promises over 100) and the use them to battle opponents. Monster Legacy has been covered and featured by a number of leading mobile …
Players of Guerilla Tea's Play to Cure: Genes In Space have completed six months worth of research in the month since the game was released. The amount of actual data is quite astonishing. According to Cancer Research UK: If this amount of DNA – tightly-coiled strings of genetic information – was unravelled it would stretch …
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Hunted Cow has established itself as an expert in the online role-playing game market and is now doing the same in the mobile strategy genre. The company's latest release is Tank Battle: East Front 1941. It's another title created in collaboration with strategy specialists HexWar and marks the studio's first collaboration with Lordz Games Studio, the company behind Panzer …
After the incredulity, disbelief, shock, confusion, growing anger, dismissal, disdain, death threats and disappearance, followed by thousands upon thousands of words analysing and explaining away the unexpected success of Flappy Bird, the truth is that we still don't know the truth. We don't know why the game succeeded like it did. Why, out of the …
Games can change the world... In July 2013, the team at Guerilla Tea announced that they were working with Cancer Research UK on a new game which would use real world clinical research data. Players would manipulate this data as part of the game, creating a huge virtual team, speeding up research and potentially providing …
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Made With Numbers, the Edinburgh-based independent development studio is back, with their new release Gem Zap. The game challenges players to zap matching gems with their Tesla coil. Zap three of a kind and additional time is granted. Zap 10 matching gems to reach the next level. You can see a sneak peek of the …
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If you've been inside a Starbucks in the last several months, the chances are you'll have seen the jazz-friendly coffee behemoth is now offering free apps. Starbucks around the world now have regularly updated cards which offer recently caffeinated consumers the opportunity to download a new and sexy app for free. Lub vs Dub, one …
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