4Talent, Channel 4's new talent scheme will be in Dundee tomorrow, hosting a workshop aimed at 16-25 year olds who are interested in games development as a career, a goal and a fabulous way of life. Channel 4 has worked closely with local industry to pull together a who's-who of speakers, participants and experts from …
Wrestling Manager Updated – WTF?
The team at Serious Parody are living up to their name. Â The serious part anyway. Â The company has just released the latest major update to its popular Wrestling Manager game. Version 1.0.8 is now in open BETA, while the company updates and tweaks the latest additions, based on player feedback. Â A full public release will …
The Long Way Round – How The Games Industry Caught Up With Denki
Eurogamer has posted an in-depth article on the history and evolution of Denki. Â It's well worth reading and comes recommended... It's a familiar enough story. A small group of idealistic developers jumps off the A-list hamster wheel and sets up on their own, eager to get away from the big budget grind. They want to …
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Game Maker Now Available On STEAM
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 …
Intern Opportunities From Dundee University
An increasing number of games companies in Scotland are offering internships. Â However it can be difficult to find people or ensure that the whole process is carried out fairly and offers benefit to both parties. Dundee University has started a graduate certificate programme, designed to help companies across Scotland find, utilise and reward interns in …
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Tag Nabs Amazon Exec Launches Hotel GB For Four
Last week was a busy week for Dundee's Tag Games. Â A gentlemen by the name of Graham Chambers has just been appointed as the company's new head of global sales. Graham has years of experience within the entertainment sector, most recently as Amazon UK's head of Games & Software. Â He was also the managing director …
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Ludometrics Announces New Project (With Added Denki)
Ludometrics, as you may know, is an independent games company in Glasgow's rather cool Merchant City (the bit with the good pubs, restaurants and nice shops). We like Ludometrics. In the last year they've released Matching Set for iOS, football-based quiz title, Quizball and the forthcoming time management game, Pet Store Panic. They also created …
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Mental MonstAR Motoring Outplay Augments iPhone Fun
Augmented Reality is one of those technologies which tends to polarise opinion.  Many people scoff and shun the technology as irrelevant to 'proper' games and label it awkward, inconvenient  and nothing more than a jumped up QR code. You friendly neighbourhood Scottishgames.net tends more towards the optimistic and impressed side of things.  When Augmented Reality …
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Steve Hammond’s Manual Override – Developer Hell
'Development Hell' is a well-known term for the painful gestation of a Hollywood movie. Whether modern AAA games suffer the same problems from concept to release, I don't know personally but I am certain that they do. I am currently reading Tales From Development Hell, and whilst the movie industry is not the games industry, there …
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Booty Quest – Out Now For iOS And Android
Avast, shipmates.  A tot o' rum all round and cease yer keel-hauling of the cabin boy.  A shiny new version of Outplay's popular treasure matchin' Facebook title, Booty Quest, has hove into view for them new Apple and Android gadgets and now you can shiver your timbers on the go. OK, enough piratism.  Booty Quest was …
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