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Biome Collective One Of Nine Scottish Networks To Secure Funding

Nine creative networks across Scotland, including Dundee's Biome Collective, will receive a share of £120,000 from Create:Networks to support the development of sustainable creative communities. Create:Networks 2024/25 – is a fund enabling groups, organisations and creative practitioners to build new or develop existing local creative networks as enablers for sustainable creative communities in Scotland. Launched …

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XR Network+ Collaboration, Innovation & Funding

XR Network+ at Abertay CyberQuarter

On Tuesday 22 October 2024, join XR Network+ at Abertay University's Cyber Quarter to hear about opportunities for collaboration, innovation and funding for researchers, companies and creatives across Scotland. XR Network+ is a project led by the University of York that brings together academia and industry across the UK to deliver research and innovation in …

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Abertay University Launches Competitive Games and Wacom Cintiq Labs

Abertay University campus

Abertay University's new Competitive Games and Wacom Cintiq labs have been added to the university's National Centre for Excellence in Computer Games Education, bringing the latest, industry-standard equipment and facilities onto campus for students and research staff.  Competitive Games Lab The Competitive Games Lab is fitted with 20 high-specification gaming PCs to provide a space …

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Curve Games To Publish Skye Tales And Manic Mechanics

Curve Games Publishing Skye Tales & Manic Mechanics

Indie-focused publisher Curve Games has partnered with Dundee's 4J Studios to take over the publishing of two titles, Puny Astronaut's award-winning Skye Tales and 4J's own Manic Mechanics.  Curve will handle continued distribution, promotion and new global opportunities for each game. Originally released in May 2023, Skye Tales, the wholesome, gentle exploration and puzzle game, received two trophies in the 2023 …

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OUT NOW: FLEA!2 (PC, NES & DREAMCAST)

FLEA!2 Logo Screen

FLEA!2, the sequel (fleaquel?) to the 2020 smash-hit FLEA! from Dundee indie-darlings LowTek Games is OUT NOW for PC, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Dreamcast. Yes, Dreamcast. After the success of the original FLEA! - which is a featured title in the National Museum of Scotland's incredible GAME ON exhibition, LowTek launched a Kickstarter campaign …

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Scottish Youth Theatre: Theatre Director Wanted

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Push The Boundaries of Hybrid Theatre and Virtual Production Date of Activity: November 2024 – March 2025Location: DundeeFee: £2175 Scottish Youth Theatre is seeking a Theatre Director with proven experience and interest in digital performance, emerging technologies and live theatre to support the delivery of Haptic Theatre – an R&D project in Dundee, in collaboration …

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4J Teases First Elements Engine Game: REFORJ

4J Studios Reforj Title

Dundee's 4J Studios has released the first few details about Reforj (Re4J, geddit?), the first title to be developed with the recently announced Elements Engine. While details are few and far between, the studio has released several screenshots from the game and invited some of the UK's most popular game streamers and content creators to …

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Stone & Veil – Join Project To Explore The Impact Of Land Use

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Abertay University Students Work With Scottish Ecological Design Association, James Hutton Institute and SEFARI Gateway to create educational game Stone & Veil, a videogame designed to explain human activities' impact on soil health and land use in Scotland, has been created by students at Abertay University, Dundee. Students from the university’s Professional Masters in Games …

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ProtoPlay Games Festival Returns To Dundee

ProtoPlay 2024

ProtoPlay, the hugely popular free games festival showcasing the work of graduate games developers returns to Dundee on the 27th and 28th of September. ProtoPlay is the games show for the UK Games Fund’s Tranzfuser competition. Nineteen teams from across the UK will travel to Dundee to get player feedback on the first playable versions …

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35 Years Ago – DMA Moved Into Its First Office

DMA Design - First Office - In 1989

On August 1st 1989 the fresh-faced youngsters of DMA Design moved into their first office space, above a restaurant at the foot of Perth Road - officially 134b Nethergate - in Dundee. According to official games legend Mike Dailly (seriously, he's got the award and everything...): While the influence DMA has over the Games Industry …

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