Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Scotland’s largest celebration of tabletop gaming, Tabletop Scotland, is set to welcome thousands of players this weekend, from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September, in its brand new and significantly larger home at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh. Now in its sixth year, the convention has grown from a passionate community gathering into a cornerstone …
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Get ready to level up your tabletop game design because Ancient Robot Workshop is gearing up for launch on Leith Walk this May! Think of it as a collaborative hub and co-working space specifically for tabletop game creatives – board games, card games, RPGs, you name it! They are not just offering desks and speedy …
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Developers! Student teams! Game development societies! In fact games makers of all descriptions! Here's a unique opportunity for you to work with on a whole range of new games - in a way you may never have considered... Last month we reported that Hunted Cow had signed a deal with American board game designer and …
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Hunted Cow, Scotland's secret games publisher and one of the country's biggest success stories, announced that it has signed a deal with American board game creators Victory Point Games. Victory Point Games is an award-winning games company, based in California. Victory Point started life as a historical war games company, but has expanded hugely to …
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Glasgow's GameDork community is coming together this weekend, for a weekend of gaming joy - with a purpose. Â Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, like-minded folks will be able to gather, in the presence of much gaming hardware - and play games - all for charity. Â In this case, the Children's Hospice Association Scotland …
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Direct from Scottishgames partner SQUARE-GO.COM: Conpulsion is Scotland's premier games convention and has been running under that name for the past 15 years but has existed in various forms for the past 25, acting as a community hub for Scottish gamers and visitors from across the world. At its roots, Conpulsion is predominately concerned with …
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2011 promises to be quite the creative wonderland for game designers and developers. Anything which encourages new talent, new games and more innovation gets our whole-hearted support. The first development-related event of 2011 is rapidly heading our way. The 28th of January marks the start of this year's Global Games Jam - a worldwide game …