Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
2012 has been the Year of Creative Scotland. A nation wide celebration of creativity which highlights all of the amazing talent, the clever businesses and the dedicated organisations we have here in Scotland. Unless you work in digital media. The recently announced Creative Scotland awards have categories for film and television, literature, music, theatre - …
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The 2012 Dare to be Digital competition came to a climax yesterday, when the winning teams were announced at a star-studded, glamorous and confetti covered awards ceremony. The awards were handed out at the end of the three day ProtoPlay event, which drew in a record crowd of over 10,000. Players, developers, families, students and …
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The Tag celebratory 6th anniversary game jam has drawn to a close. All teams completed wonderful and marvellous things. Who won? We cannot reveal that. For that, readers, you must visit the Tag blog. There you can see all of the games, find out who won and hear emotional, heartfelt pleas from the employees to …
Are you a commercial organisation? Do you do business? Well? If so, then you may well be eligible to enter the Queens Award For Enterprise competition. It's a competition to reward enterprising companies, for their hard work and enterprise - and it's by her majesty The Queen. Which makes it more special than your average, …
The BAFTA In Scotland awards for 2012 are now open for entries. The games category is open to ALL games, created in Scotland, or by Scottish developers. The games award covers ALL platforms from Triple A console titles, through to free-to-play social titles. The most important criteria is that the game is publicly available. So, …
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If you work in the game industry and you're wondering why it's all gone very quiet down in London right now, It's the BAFTA Games awards tonight. The famous BAFTA masks will be handed out for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence, to games from all platforms and covering all manner of genres. Denki …
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Tag's first title for its casual/social TagPlay label, Funpark Friends, has been nominated in the Best Social Games category in the 2012 International Mobile Games Awards, which are announced that the Mobile World Congress, which takes place in Barcelona at the end of February. Congratulations to the team and we'll all keep our fingers crossed …
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Students, new developers, indie studios, you have a few days left to enter a game in the NEW TALENT Awards. This is a great competition. It recognises creativity and new and up and coming game creators. It needs your input... If you're working on, or have just released your FIRST game, you should qualify for …
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Hot on the heels of the BAFTA In Scotland awards, the BAFTA New Talent Awards are now open for business. This competition is aimed at students and developers working on their first project. There is a specific games category, which is open to games on all platforms. Entrants can be part of a larger team, …
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It's been a busy few days, awards-wise. Many friends of Scottishgames.net picked up trophies, gongs, vaguely satisfying see through perspex things and medals. First up, the Games Media Awards were held on Wednesday night in London. It was a noteworthy year, mostly for the wrong reasons, but threw up some interesting results. Notably, long-time friend, …