Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The Computer Games Journal is one of the only academic journals in the world focusing on the computer games industry and the issues facing the creators, technologies and innovators within this rapidly evolving sector. It was created and is edited here in Scotland by a team of respected academics including editor-in-chief Dr John Sutherland, Dr …
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At the midway point in Dundee's Perth Road, opposite the university, at the top of the steps to the digital media park, you can come face to face with some of Dundee's most famous creations. Dundee is no stranger to public art, with a variety of statues around the city, celebrating local history and wildlife. …
Culture Hack Scotland is a 48 hour event for developers, designers, artists and producers, taking place in Glasgow's Whisky Bond from July 12th - 14th. CHS challenges participants to create a 'culture related project'.  The description of last year's event describes it like this: Culture Hack Scotland does what is says on the tin. It’s …
After a year which could be charitably described as 'challenging' Creative Scotland, the public sector body created help Scotland's artistic, cultural and creative individuals, companies and organisations, has announced it has a new chief executive. Janet Archer, currently Director of Dance at Arts Council England, will take up her new role on 1 July 2013. …
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Sync is a project which supports cultural organisations in Scotland, learn more about technology, come to love it, then take it back to the office/theatre/museum/loft space and do many interesting and exciting new things with it. As part of this remit, for the last several years Sync has placed a number of developers or technical …
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Today's the last day to apply to become a 'Geek In Residence' as part of the Sync Tank programme. Â You could be embedded (not as painful as it sounds) within Socttish Opera, The MacRobert arts centre, the EIGG box, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (which can't run in Dundee, sadly) or Photography gallery Stills. It …
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Did you know that Scottishgames was originally started in 2005 as a Yahoo Group? Â That didn't work. Â It required people to get involved and contribute. Â So in 2006, your editor took the decision to start a blog. Â At that time, TypePad was a decent choice and allowed sophisticated content like words and pictures to be …
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It's request time, readers. Â Anthony Reynolds from Glasgow University is looking for people to help his research into gaming culture and mature content in videogames. Â It's not another survey into violent games = violent behaviour. Â Rather he's looking for input from gamers to help shape the research itself. If you can spare 10 minutes at …
Ladies and gentlemen, we are thrilled, delighted and downright overjoyed to introduce the brand new(ish) Scottishgames.net CORNER SHOP. Yes, now, as you read the latest news and analysis of the games business in Scotland, you can radiate cool and effortless chic with the new range of Scottishgames.net t-shirts. Ranging from casually stylish and wilfully geeky, …
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Hello world. Welcome to the all new Scottishgames site. Your single, central resource for everything happening in, relating to and coming from the industry of making games in Scotland. Developers, indie studios, universities, supporting organisations and local media will all be featured here, making it the place to find out what's going on in and …