Creative Scotland is recruiting. The organisation responsible for Scotland's cultural, artistic and creative industries is looking for a development officer, focusing on digital innovation, creative technology and design. It's a full-time position, with a salary (£25,000 pa, plus benefits and pension). If you're interested in helping Creative Scotland become more engaged with the whole digital and …
Go North, Play Games…
June 4th marks the start of the 2014 Go North festival in Inverness. Go North celebrates all aspects of the cultural and creative arts and includes film, music, literature and a growing number of games. For the first time, the festival in 2014 will feature a gaming playground, where a number of Scotland's development studios will …
Pixel Pushers – Art
Abertay University's Hannah Maclure Centre is holding an exhibition focusing on video games art and the artists who create it: The artistic and creative qualities of digital artists can be overlooked by spectators, the popular misperception being that it is a purely technical or process driven art form and that somehow the, ‘computer does it …
I Am Square. See Me Dodge
Pixel Sword, the humble start-up studio based beyond the wall, in the wildling-infested forests of Bo'ness, has very quickly established itself as the pre-eminent creator of games based around the elegant, timeless simplicity of the square. Pixel Sword's first game, Square Match Go, is a meditation upon discrimination, the despotic and tyranical rule and the …
ROFLPillar Up For A.Maze Top Gong Shock
ROFLPillar, Lucky Frame's floor-crawling physical video game which challenges players to writhe and twist and slither, has been nominated for an award at Berlin's A MAZE festival. If you've not come across A MAZE before it is: An international platform for independent games that invites professionals and creatives from various fields to exchange their knowledge …
Artists: Zapcoder Wants You
Artists: Looking for a way to build your portfolio, or get your work out and into games? Got a whole stack of sprites you created for an old project which never got off the ground? Zapcoder, the Glasgow-based company which is creating an app which will allow anyone to build and create their own games …
Let’s Go! Lemmings In The Real World…
At the midway point in Dundee's Perth Road, opposite the university, at the top of the steps to the digital media park, you can come face to face with some of Dundee's most famous creations. Dundee is no stranger to public art, with a variety of statues around the city, celebrating local history and wildlife. …
Turing Festival, Edinburgh, August 2012
There's a new event in town. IN 2011, the first ever Turing Festival was held in Edinburgh. It was an eclectic blend of technology, digital media, design, interactive elements and featured some seriously good speakers (including your editor, at the last minute, after a VC fled...) Now the Turing Festival is back for 2012. The …
Alt-w Creative Fund Now Open For Entries
The Alt-w fund supports artists to explore experimental and interactive activities, make use of technology as both a platform and medium, and recognise the rapidly evolving role that digital culture plays in todays society. Creators can apply for up to £10,000 of production costs from the fund. To provide more background and context on the …
Artists In Residence: Stewart Graham
A big thank you to the highly talented Stewart Graham for our most recent Scottishgames banner, Colour Clash. Currently working with Tag Games, Stewart is a veteran of Denki and DMA Design. He's also working on a number of other projects we hope to bring you at some point soon... You can see some of …