Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
It's been a tumultuous and busy 24 hours. News of the research into Scotland's creative industries has spread throughout the global games sector and into the mainstream media... Now, the Scottish government has been in touch to tell us that they know it's wrong and they're working on better figures and more reliable information. Here's …
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Yesterday we reported that the digital media and interactive sectors had been inexplicably omitted from the 2012 Year of Creative Scotland awards. Today the reason may have become a little clearer. The games industry in Scotland does not exist in any significant way. It contributes nothing to the economy, there are only 200 people working …
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The current funding round from the Prototype fund, administered by Abertay University closes on September 19th. For those of you unaware of the Prototype fund, it offers grants of up to £25,000 to small companies working on new digital media projects - including videogames and interactive entertainment experiences. Companies can be based anywhere in the …
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If the weary burden of everyday life, personal decision making and taking responsibility for the hopeless mediocrity of your unexceptional, talentless little life is getting you down - or if you're a Hollywood A lister with pots of money and an increasingly anxious partner - then perhaps you should consider seeking guidance. Yes, guidance. From …
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Outpost Defense, the latest iOS release from the team at Dynamo Games has been created on conjunction with Scottish film production company Black Camel Pictures. Based on the newly released movie: Outpost II: Black Sun, which was released last weekend at Fright Fest, the game is part of a whole transmedia experience which features Nazi Zombies. Thousands …
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Denki has been a little quiet since the release of Quarrel on Xbox Live. The company has been up to *something*, but nobody has really been sure what it is... At yesterday's Turing Festival gaming futures event, Managing Director Colin Anderson revealed exactly what the company has been up to. Denki is working with browser-based …
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After a jaunt to the frozen North, visiting the far frontier of UK games development, we return with a guest post from the astonishingly resilient Colin Riley (aka @Domipheus) who took part in the first ever Dare to be Digital Indie Showcase at this year's Protoplay event. We say resilient because Colin ran his entire …
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Digital Spark is a new event, it ran for the first time in Dundee last year under the auspices of Abertay University and pulled in a very worthy set of speakers. The event is back for 2012 and is building upon the success of the last year. Digital Spark promises to explore the whole area …
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More muscles, more sweat, more grappling, grabbing, trash talking, chair slamming, pile driving, masks, trunks, mullets and MAYHEM. Yes, Wrestling Manager, the inaugural title from Serious Parody has been updated and iterated and improved and adds more moves, modes and umm, mayhem than EVER BEFORE... Wrestling Manager has been tweaked, updated and changed based on …
The 2012 Dare to be Digital competition came to a climax yesterday, when the winning teams were announced at a star-studded, glamorous and confetti covered awards ceremony. The awards were handed out at the end of the three day ProtoPlay event, which drew in a record crowd of over 10,000. Players, developers, families, students and …
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