Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The V&A Museum "the world's greatest museum of art and design" has appointed its first ever Game Designer In Residence. It's someone who may be familiar to Scottish Games Network readers. Sophia George is (deep breath now), a former Abertay Student, the chair of SwallowTail Games (creator of Tick Tock Toys), which is a Dare to …
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Gen Up Scotland is a training programme for recent graduates and emerging digital creatives. Created by TRC Media in Glasgow it is a five week course which gives a maximum of eight participants access to a wide range of Scotland's leading media companies and gives a overview of what it’s really like to work in …
NESTA (the National Endowment For Science Technology and the Arts - but you knew that...) is holding a series of events across Scotland, designed to help young people (kids aged 13+) to access new technology, digital media and interactivity. One Day Digital gives participants the chance to experiment with, play with and explore a variety …
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The BBC has announced a new event called Connected Studio, running in Glasgow on the 21st of February. Connected Studio has been created to bring together creative practitioners and developers with BBC staff to create, submit and develop ideas for innovative new features and formats, with BBC Staff and creators working together in an open …
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On Saturday (and Sunday), BBC Radio Scotland's Business Scotland programme looked at the game industry in Scotland. What is it? Where is it? What does the new tax relief mean for companies creating games north of the border? The programme features several well known MD's, CEO's and entrepreneurs including Outplay Entertainment's Doug Hare, Ninja Kiwi's …
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Games Analytics, Edinburgh's data delving wizards, have been signed by BBC Worldwide to support the new Top Gear: Stunt School Revolution mobile game. Games Analytics has integrated their Predict technology into the game and is already improving player engagement for the free-to-play title. The game experience for different players has been optimised and redesign of …
For a recent episode of Show Me The Money, the BBC sent reporter the excellently-named-for-a-lead-action-hero, Jack Garland to Dundee to ponder the ongoing evolution of the games sector. Mr Garland mentions the collapse of RTW (again), before moving thoughtfully onwards to the rise of casual, social and mobile gaming. Digital Goldfish are shown, strolling, like …
In one of the most generous and artistically significant moves of the mobile age, the first two seasons of Consolevania, the ground-breaking Scottish videogames show, are now FREE to download on iTunes. This includes the monumentally important Scottish Games Industry Fluff Piece, created by the Consolevania team for the Edinburgh Interactive festival in 2008. It's …
Doctor Who's first mobile gaming adventure - the Mazes Of Time - created by Tag Games, is now available for iPhone and iPad in the Apple App Store. In his very first mobile game outing the Doctor and his sidekick Amy Pond must rescue a family abducted from deep space by the Daleks. As you’d …
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This morning's Call Kaye programme on Radio Scotland, covered the topic of games addicition, following Monday's controversial Panorama report looking at the same issue. The Panorama piece has been already picked apart by much of the games media. The conclusion is generally that it was poorly researched, anecdotal and featured advice to 'addicted' gamers to …