Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
If you're a regular reader of Scottishgames, then you'll be familiar with Dare to be Digital. The competition is unique and offers teams of students a chance to experience the sharp end of the creative process like no other event. Even better, the competition culminates in the Protoplay event. Three days of demonstrating the (hopefully) …
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Angry Mango, the team behind the Dare to be Digital and BAFTA-award winning title, Mush has launched today, exclusively for Windows mobile phones. Mush offers an original blend of physics based gameplay, coupled with touch and tilt controls. Players must navigate a complex, but charming cartoon world by tilting the phone and making Mush rise …
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Are you an aspiring game designer or developer? Do you want to take your ideas and bring them to life, as part of an actual real world business? Now there's a faster, simpler way to get the sort of inside knowledge and insight which eludes some companies entirely. Dare+ is a new programme, created by …
Breaking news from Ubisoft reveals that Tag Games, still working furiously on their 6th birthday game jam, are also working on the mobile version of the RPG puzzle title Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes. The game is coming out for iOS and Android. The game is a port from the original DS title, created …
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The BAFTA-nominated Guerilla Tea has been in touch to tell us they're two years old this very day. Happy birthday GT. Why not celebrate with a cup of tea, a G&T or a par-T? Guerilla Tea are not celebrating with a 24 hour game jam. They are instead hard at work in their tiny office, …
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Tag Games is SIX years old today. Happy birthday Tag. They're the company behind games including Car Jack Streets, Funpark Friends, Doctor Who: Mazes of Time and True Grit. To celebrate, the company is holding its second annual Game Jam. Only this year, it's personal... Five teams of fearless development superstars will be slogging it …
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are delighted to bring you Mr Steve Hammond, in what we hope will be a regular monthly column. We think of him as a combination of Charlie Brooker and Neil Oliver, but Steve's official biography states... Steve Hammond currently works as a programmer in the aerospace industry. While he would have …
Cobra's iBomber Defense Pacific has been nominated in the Best Mobile Games category in this year's European Games Awards. It's up against several other popular titles and is currently third in its category behind Burnout Crash and Another World 20th Anniversary Edition. This is something worth winning. Forget the Golden Rose of Montreaux, this competition …
Following hot on the heels of the excellent interview with Reloaded Productions, the mighty VentureBeat has now covered Euphonious' new AudioSkins idea for Sonic Logos... Scottishgames.net even gets a tip of the hat as the source. We're very proud.
Like the cat flap, onions and gravity, the greatest inventions are simple and obvious once you see them. 'Why?' you wonder, 'didn't I think of that first?' Chances are you were tagging chums on Facebook, or queuing for chips. Thankfully however, there are clever, creative people out there who are making these obvious things real …