Ladies and gentlemen, we're delighted to announce that the company entering the staggeringly detailed Scottishgames Who's Who list at the big 5-0 is Amoeba Labs, the new venture from former Denki stalwart and Proper programmer Thomas Kronberg. Amoeba Labs is not only creating its own titles, but offering development experience across a huge range of …
Introducing Drop Catcher & Drop Catcher Laser – new From Fat Bob Games
iPhone users can now download and enjoy TWO brand new games from Edinburgh-based development studio Fat Bob Games. (For those of you who were brought up beneath rocks, or suffered in a non-literary household, Fat Bob wis Oor Wullie's heavier companion, who enjoyed the odd jeely piece). Fat Bob's first releases are two 'twin' games …
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Dundee Game Jam – May 28th 2011
Dundee, city of many discoveries. Â Home to jute, journalism and the all-new Dundee Game Jam. Â Taking place at Abertay University on (Saturday) May 28th, from 09.30 - 17.00. It's open to students, professional game developers, ex game developers, reformed games developers, talented amateurs and anyone who can put together the basic pieces of a videogame. …
Guest Editorial: +AsDesigned Games – From There To Here
+AsDesigned Games was formed in 2010 by several former Realtime Worlds employees; the small team was formed after the well publicised and unfortunate demise of the Dundee developer. The +ADG team consisted of a few former QA testers who simply wanted to create some fun games and boost their portfolios/CVs at the same time. After …
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Introducing Euphonious
Euphonious is a new company, headquartered in Dundee, created by industry veteran and long-time audio geek Raymond Usher, formerly of Realtime Worlds, Rockstar North and DMA Design. Euphonious is offering a comprehensive range of audio services to digital, broadcast, animation and of course, interactive companies. From sound effect creation to music composition, licensing, direction and …
Nicholas Lovell – Self-Publishing Masterclass – Glasgow
The games industry is changing and evolving very rapidly right now. New platforms, new routes to market, new business models, new consumers all mean new opportunities for development studios. Finding new ways of doing business, or identifying these new opportunities can be difficult, when the industry is changing around you, which can leave some developers …
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Introducing Games Analytics
Games Analytics is a start-up company, founded by Chris Wright and Tim Christian. The company is a 'data-mining and monetization company, headquartered in Edinburgh, serving the online video games industry'. Headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has just opened a dedicated US office, appointing industry veteran and co-founder of Activision Alan Miller as director of North …
Hunted Cow Profiled In Aberdeen Press & Journal
You might not have come across Hunted Cow before now. The studio is based up in the frozen north of Elgin and works mainly upon browser-based MMO games, including Fallen Sword, SigmaStorm II and Gothador. The company recently picked up an exporter of the year award from the Moray Chamber of Commerce and has now …
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Scottish Games Jam – Coming Soon
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 …
Introducing CHUNK Games
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a new member of the Scottish games community. Chunk Games is a new label, created by Glasgow digital design agency Chunk. The company has worked in the marketing, advertising and design field for a number of years now and has produced several 'games' both in the traditional sense and in …