Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The chances are that you didn't know the Scottish Games Network, in addition to being your exclusive, comprehensive source for all that is good and true and exciting in the rapidly evolving interactive industry, was also a globally respected house of fashion. The Scottish Games Corner Shop offers a staggering array of fabulous, stylish and …
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The 2012 TIGA Awards nominations have been announced, with several Scottish companies and teams included. Â There are several categories where Scotland is well represented - most notably the student games category which, thanks to Dare to be Digital, we dominate almost entirely. However there are many categories which rather inexplicably don't include any games from …
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young game designer, in possession of a good idea, tends to do nothing with it. Â Ever. Â Except in the pub, when they moan to friends that they can't get funding, that games don't make money these days and that now they've mentioned it aloud, it will be …
A week ago, the second Turing Festival took place in Edinburgh. Â The inaugural event in 2011 was astonishingly good. Â Diverse, eclectic and expert, it pulled in speakers and participants from a huge range of disciplines and, almost uniquely, seemed to focus on a speaker's ability and knowledge, rather than job title or employer. I spent …
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What happens when some creative developers want to book tickets for the new Batman film? Â Do they pick up the phone? Â Of course not. Â Do they perhaps go online? Â Don't be silly. What clever and creative developers do is whip up an augmented reality app for their mobiles, which superimposes the classic Bat Signal over …
There's a new event in town. Â IN 2011, the first ever Turing Festival was held in Edinburgh. Â It was an eclectic blend of technology, digital media, design, interactive elements and featured some seriously good speakers (including your editor, at the last minute, after a VC fled...) Now the Turing Festival is back for 2012. Â The …
The Alt-w fund supports artists to explore experimental and interactive activities, make use of technology as both a platform and medium, and recognise the rapidly evolving role that digital culture plays in todays society. Creators can apply for up to £10,000 of production costs from the fund.  To provide more background and context on the …
It was all, like, excitement she wrote, when we saw the Edge Online headline. Â GTA? Â At the V&A? Â We imagined an interactive full 3D room at the new Dundee V&A HQ, but it turns out that it'll be part of a video at the London V&A celebrating British Design from 1948-2012. Tickets are a recession-proof …
The team at Huzutech in Glasgow posted a fascinating piece on the use of data analysis and metrics in the social gaming space on their blog last week. We checked it was OK to re-post the piece here and present, for your pleasure and delight, Huzutech on social gaming and designing by data analysis... You …
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Breaking news this morning. Â The extraordinary posse at Proper Games are having a festive games jam. Â The company has split into SIX competing factions or TEAMS, who will now do battle to design and develop a brand new GAME in a matter of mere hours. Proper has created a Facebook page, which will chronicle the …