The NEoN 2012 festival introduced a new event called Drop In And Play. They invited smaller developers to take their games along to the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre and let members of the public play with them. Denki Quartic Llama and Lucky Frame all joined in, as well as the Malta-based digital artist Pippin Barr. …
The Friday Financials – Minecraft XBLA & 40 Billion Apps
Rounding up the first week back at work in 2013, we have two stories highlighting the way the global video games market has changed - and how it promises to continue changing in 2013... First up, Minecraft. Every reader should, by now, be familiar with Mojang's LEGO-em-up. A combination of virtual world builder, role playing …
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TIGA Hosting Game Development Night In Dundee
Kicking off a year which promises to be a joy for networking, or a horrifying ordeal for agoraphobics, the meek and the more introverted developer, TIGA has announced its first developer event of the year will be held on Wednesday 23rd of January at Dukes Corner in Dundee. TIGA is promising a Stella line up …
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New Company New Game – Binary Pumpkin Introduces Pumpkin Bingo
Please welcome a new development studio to your friendly, futuristic Scottish Games Network. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Binary Pumpkin. Alongside the appropriately awesome name, the company was founded by two veterans of the games business. Lol Scragg and Bruce McNeish were two of the founders of Cohort Studios and have worked on a …
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Bips! – If PAC-MAN Ate Snake…
Bips! is a brand new game from Ludometrics, out now for Facebook. So far so vanilla you might be thinking, but hold those there horses, cowboys n' girls. This is no regular release. Bips! has a long and noble history, with a pedigree as long as Metal Gear Solid cut scene (one of our New …
Introducing: Secret Lunch (and Shu)
The Prototype fund, administered by Abertay University has funded a number of companies, start-ups and new studios in the last several months. The latest of these is Secret Lunch, a new game development team of former Mprof students from the university. The team has already worked on a number of titles across multiple platforms, including …
Scotland – Mobile Tower Defence Capital Of The World…
It's Christmas. So for games sites with less dedicated editorial staff and a surfeit of lovely news, it means that it's time for round-ups, top tens and lists of the best [x] game(s) of 2012, where [x] is a genre, platform, or sub set of those based upon the site's own focus. IGN is leading …
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Jam Spreads Over Whole Of Scotland
As we've mentioned in the recent past, the Global Games Jam is a 48 hour competition which challenges teams of developers to create a brand new, original game using whatever tools, hardware and platforms they so desire. It's a full on challenge, running continuously over two days and incorporates themes and bonus achievements for creating …
Develop Magazine Publishes Scottish Regional Focus
In the most recent issue of Develop, the industry magazine for the creators of video games, there's a regional focus piece looking at the games sector in Scotland. The piece pulls in quotes from a number of companies, including Rockstar North, Tag, eeGeo, Denki and YoYo Games. The article explores the impact on the games …
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Cobra’s Storm In A Teacup – First Commercial Release For Raspberry Pi
Scotland has proven itself a pioneer once more. Cobra in Dundee made history yesterday by releasing the first commercially available software for the astounding Raspberry Pi computer. The company's critically acclaimed Storm In A Teacup title joined popular free software applications on the Pi Store, such as Libre Office and Asterisk, as well as freely …
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