Help Glasgow-Based Indie Ludus Pax Bring Its Second Game To Life... Scottish indie studio Ludus Pax has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming game, Path to Serenity, promising to offer players a serene escape from the stresses of daily life. Described as a "calm, contemplative adventure," the game aims to create a space where... Continue Reading →
Creative Scotland Pledges £50K To Back Scottish Developers, Artists and Creators on Kickstarter
A Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of The Silent Tombs, a game which allows players to explore historically authentic Gaelic, Celtic and Angle Saxon tombs, is now LIVE...
 Roykfern is a new point and click adventure game, being developed by Arrow Games in Dundee. Born out of the Honours project of co-founder, Calum Robb, Roykfern bills itself as a musical narrative adventure. Arrow Games is currently crowdfunding the game, looking for £50,000 for a full PC release. The campaign has over 40 days... Continue Reading →
Crowd-funding. It was awesome. It was the saviour of indie gaming. It was an over-hyped waste of time. It was a way for the unscrupulous to rip-off the gullible. It was only for the already successful. It was only good for very specific projects. It's... so over. Crowd-funding is still with us. It's being used... Continue Reading →
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hiddenarmada/mutiny-16-player-dual-screen-pirate-mayhem-pc-mobi/widget/video.html Ahoy, shipmates. The scurvy crew at Hidden Armada have unleashed a broadside of much awesome in the form of a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their first game, Mutiny!. Mutiny! is a chaotic multiplayer pirate brawler - for up to SIXTEEN players - that lets you sail the 77 seas with a crew of your... Continue Reading →
TIGA has launched a frankly excellent research report into sources of funding for game developers operating in the United Kingdom. Covering everything from crowd-funding and work-for-hire, through to Angel investors, venture capitalists, project finance and debt, the guide lays out in simple, easily-understood terms what it takes to find funding in today's video games industry,... Continue Reading →
Games Lounge is a brand new live-streamed show about video games, being created and produced here in Scotland. The idea for the show and the driving force behind the project, Shaun Paul Johnson is now using Kickstarter to help finds funds to make the show a reality. Shaun explained his reasoning for starting the project... Back in... Continue Reading →
You're aware of Arduino, right? It's the open source, electronics prototyping platform which lets artists, hobbyists and people who are not electronic engineers build and make things. It's rather awesome. Scotland's Mark Geddes s an old school programmer and Arduino fan. He's also a maker. And quite possibly, soon to be an author. Mark has... Continue Reading →
Towards the end of 2013 we heard about the latest project underway at Ruffian Games in Dundee. Â Tribal Towers was the company's first indie project, a new and original game, in which players built their own armoured and armed towers, while trying to destroy their opponent's. Then it went quiet. Â Ruffian slipped back into stealth... Continue Reading →
