Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
If there's one defining characteristic of game developers in Scotland, it would be taciturnity. 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. The sort of activity that one might expect of frauds, charlatans or …
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In an app store awash with clones, copies and tired retreads of existing genres, originality is all too rare. Games can quite easily aim for instant mainstream acceptance, losing any real identity in their race for the lowest common denominator, or can be defiantly aimed at 'real' gamers, so bullet holes and orcs abound. Which …
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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 …
Made With Numbers is a one man band, a company formed by veteran games programmer Alexander Illes, who decided that working on his own projects would be a fine idea. Alex has since worked on a game framework for future projects, alongside his first commercial release - Sky Without Sun: Target. Sky Without Sun: Target …
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Hunted Cow, the development studio behind games including Fallen Sword, Eldevin, Battle Dungeon: Risen, Tank Battle: 1944 and Civil War: 1863 are looking for paid interns, to work with the company over the summer. These are PAID positions, offering minimum national wage and are full time (40 hours per week, 8 x weeks contract). As Hunted Cow describes …
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Chock-A-Block is an original new sliding block puzzle game from the team at Claymore Games. It's out now for iOS, with Android and Windows Phone versions coming soon. Chock-A-Block combines the simple, easily understood classic 'match 3' gameplay (put three or more of the same things together to make them vanish and pick up points) …
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If the above headline doesn't mean a great deal to you, you may not be alone. It is good news however. It means that Scotland's YoYo Games is continuing to support future technologies and that the company's popular GameMaker platform (which, the company tells us, has now been downloaded over 5,000,000 times) could be at …
Light Hero, the deep space shoot-em-up, created by Edinburgh's Inceptional, is having an exciting week. The game's price point has just dropped - you can now pick the game up for £0.69 (0.99 US$ | 0.99 CAD | 0.79 € | 85 ¥ | 0.99 AU$)But that's not all. In a move bold enough for …
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Celtic Heroes, the MMMORPG created by One Thumb Mobile has evolved. The world's first large-scale Mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game has been updated, with a major new content pack which more than doubles the size of the game. Celtic Heroes: Dragonfire introduces three entirely new playable areas, twice as many enemies, hundreds of …
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Glasgow's Tsumanga Studios announced they were working with the female tween-focused license Winx at the start of 2013. Now the company has released it's first title, Winx Sirenix Power, for both Android and iOS devices. If you're not a 9-13 year old girl, or don't have one in your immediate family, you may not have …
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