Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Dundee development studio Digital Goldfish, the company behind the Bloons games on iPhone, is to sponsor the shorts for Dundee United football team for the coming season. Fulfilling a lifelong dream (they tell us), the company's logo will appear on the shorts of the Dundee United team throughout the 2012-2013 season. Digital Goldfish are not …
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Golf Squared is the latest iOS title from the team at Dynamo Games. Â A radical 'punk' reinterpretation of Scotland's most royal, ancient, soporific and knitwear-enhancing sport, Golf Squared challenges players to knock a wee ball through a lush cartoon landscape. Square Golfers must avoid deadly cartoon peril, achieve near zen-like oneness with the ball and …
For a recent episode of Show Me The Money, the BBC sent reporter the excellently-named-for-a-lead-action-hero, Jack Garland to Dundee to ponder the ongoing evolution of the games sector. Mr Garland mentions the collapse of RTW (again), before moving thoughtfully onwards to the rise of casual, social and mobile gaming. Digital Goldfish are shown, strolling, like …
The games industry is changing. Â It's a business which has always been driven by technology but, for many years, this meant that the gee-whizzery and eye candy aspects of games soaked up all the time, attention and column inches. Â more polygons at higher frame rates and ever more elaborate rocket launchers were the order of …
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Yes, you can now join the Scottish Games debates, discussions and strategy planning on the professional social network LinkedIn. Â Membership is by approval only and for strictly limited to professionals working within the digital media space (and students on relevant courses). Â Join now for early bird incentives and unique super powers.
The Prototype Fund, administered by the University of Abertay in Dundee has helped a wide range of digital media companies get started with grants of £25,000 and access to facilities and students from the university's numerous games courses. The next round of funding is due in the very near future and the prototype team are …
Tracer is a brand new title from Dynamo Games for iPad - and very shortly - your other favourite iOS devices. Â Then Android, just to make sure everyone is happy (bar Blackberry users of course, but there's no helping some people...) Tracer draws inspiration from classic arcade titles such as Qix and Xonix, taking players …
Development Studio Serious Parody has raised over £1M in investment to expand the studio's games portfolio.  This will allow the company to establish a new dedicated studio, based in Dundee and recruit 18 new members of staff in the coming months. Serious Parody has raised the majority of the money from private investors, with a …
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The team at Denki have released a filthy teasing hint that they're working on their next new game. Â Following the success of Quarrel on iOS and Xbox Live, Denki's next move has been the subject of intense speculation in and around the digital media and interactive industries globally. Now, the first tiny wisps of insubstantial …
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We're aware that Minecraft was intelligently designed, by the Mojang hero team and has its roots very firmly in Sweden. Â However, today saw the release of Minecraft for the Xbox 360, created by the team at 4J Studios' development office in East Linton (for our readers in Dundee - that's NOT where you live...) If …
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