Dare to be Digital is BACK for 2013. If you're a regular visitor to the Scottish Games Network, then you'll know we're big fans of the competition (disclaimer: the good people at Dare regularly ask your editor to get involved in some way(s) - speaking, presenting, mentoring or hosting the awards. We're very proud...) Dare …
BAFTA In Scotland – New Talent Awards – Call For Entries
The BAFTA In Scotland New Talent Awards is the academy's competition for students and those working in the screen industries for the first time. The competition is unique and runs only in Scotland. The 2012 awards were a huge success, with BAFTA delegates across the UK visiting Glasgow for the awards ceremony and commenting upon …
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Cobra & YoYo Hit The Hundred Top iOS Games
ArcadeSushi.com has published its list of 2012's best games. Two games created in Scotland make the list. YoYo Games' suicide-im-up Karoshi and Cobra's BAFTA nominated iBomber Defense Pacific both make the list. Karoshi is number 85. The site says: Karoshi takes the age old video game concept of surviving and turns it upside down. In …
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Best. App. Ever. Yours?
Steel Media is the company behind the hugely popular Pocketgamer websites and which now owns the 148apps website too. Now the company has just announced the 2012 BEST APP EVER competition. As the name suggests, it is an awards competition, designed to find the world's best apps - across all platforms and formats. The competition …
BAFTA Games Nomination For Scottish High School Pupils
After the glitz and glamour of the BAFTA In Scotland awards and Lucky Frame's success in the games category, there's yet more good news for the up-and-coming game developers of the future. A team of pupils from Larbert High School have made it into the nominations of the 2012 BAFTA Young Game Designer competition. Lewis …
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BAFTA In Scotland Announce 2012 Nominees
The nominations for the 2012 BAFTA In Scotland awards were announced yesterday. Alongside the glamour and household names in the film and actor categories, the far more vital and fascinating games category nominees were named. They are, in no particular order: Bad Hotel - Lucky Frame iBomber Defense Pacific - Cobra Golf Squared - Dynamo Games Bad Hotel is, we all know, a tower …
Creative Scotland Awards 2012 – Decision Time
It emerged a few weeks ago that the 2012 Creative Scotland Awards had categories for film, TV, music, performing arts but games, interactive entertainment and digital media had been neglected. We've since had several conversations with representatives from Creative Scotland who have gone some way to explaining why games didn't appear in the awards. Put …
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Prototype Funding Round Closes in Two Weeks – Act Now, Get Money, Make Games
The current funding round from the Prototype fund, administered by Abertay University closes on September 19th. For those of you unaware of the Prototype fund, it offers grants of up to £25,000 to small companies working on new digital media projects - including videogames and interactive entertainment experiences. Companies can be based anywhere in the …
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Dare Winners Announced At Biggest Ever ProtoPlay
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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Dare ProtoPlay Indie Fest Programme Confirmed – Wow!
The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be rather busy. We're not talking about the Olym-ic-, or the opportunity to be die of exposure at a picnic. We're talking about the games goodness and the head-to-head smackdown taking place between the incumbent Edinburgh Interactive Festival and the plucky upstart of Dare Protoplay and it's …
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