Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Lucky Frame is back - with a brand new game. After the awards, amazing reviews, nominations, plaudits, acclaim and general awestruck wonder that the company's previous title, Bad Hotel picked up, Lucky Frame has refused categorically to rest upon it's rainbow-hued laurels. The steely-eyed outfit has instead forced it's development gnomes back down the software …
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Scotland's official specialist gaming media got a little bit larger this week, as the Gamer Show Podcast on the British Tech Network, got in touch to say hello. It's a fortnightly show from the Scottish borders, hosted by three dedicated gamers who talk about that latest news, releases and events in the wide, wide world …
Euphonious is rapidly becoming the busiest interactive audio company in Scotland. The studio, formed by Raymond Usher (ex DMA Design/Realtime Worlds) provided sounds for some of the recent releases mentioned on the Scottish Games Network, including Cobra's Danger Derby and Outplay's Bubble Blaze, but has also contributed a serious amount of work to the new …
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Following hot on the heels of the excellent interview with Reloaded Productions, the mighty VentureBeat has now covered Euphonious' new AudioSkins idea for Sonic Logos... Scottishgames.net even gets a tip of the hat as the source. We're very proud.
One of the companies we were massively impressed by at the recent Engage-Invest-Exploit event in Edinburgh was Speech Graphics. Their technology, which synchronises lip movement with recorded speech is simply the best we've seen. To the extent that all of the Xbox 360 and PS3 games we played over the following weeks looked almost embarrassing …
Like the cat flap, onions and gravity, the greatest inventions are simple and obvious once you see them. 'Why?' you wonder, 'didn't I think of that first?' Chances are you were tagging chums on Facebook, or queuing for chips. Thankfully however, there are clever, creative people out there who are making these obvious things real …
The videogames sector has given rise to many well loved characters. From Mario and Sonic to Solid Snake, Lara Craft and that lady from Mass Effect , the industry is replete with memorable and unique personalities. However, you rarely get to play as dead genius composers, locked in mortal combat with your peers. Thankfully Wigs …
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GamaSutra has just posted a new piece of research commissioned by Euphonious and carried out by the team at Abertay's H.I.V.E. facility, which looks at how audio in games physically affects players. It's an interesting read. Across the board, with very different types of game, players experienced heightened breathing and heart rates when playing games …
Ladies & gentlemen today, with only twelve days of the year left, we present what may be 2011's most adorable - and best sounding game. The constantly surprising team at Edinburgh's Lucky Frame studios today released Pugs Love Beats, a brand new game for iOS. Players take charge of a growing army of space Pugs. …
Audio experts Euphonious has launched a brand new service aimed at independent developers, animators, film makers and other creatives, in need of professional, affordable audio for their new game/film/animation/other. AudioSkins offers a range of complete 'packs', which can be browsed (by audio style or game genre, cleverly), previewed, purchased and immediately downloaded. According to the …
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