Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
If you're in central Scotland on March 27th (next Tuesday), you owe it to yourself to come along to the first UKIE Scotland event focusing on accessing finance. Key speakers include Jo Twist and Andy Payne - the CEO and Chair of UKIE as well as representatives from a number of other organisations offering practical …
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If you work in the game industry and you're wondering why it's all gone very quiet down in London right now, It's the BAFTA Games awards tonight. Â The famous BAFTA masks will be handed out for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence, to games from all platforms and covering all manner of genres. Â Denki …
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The newly established Scottish arm of the UK Interactive Enertainment organisation (UKIE) is to host its first ever event on the afternoon of Tuesday March 27th. Focusing on how companies within the interactive industry can access finance and find funding, the event brings together speakers from a wide range of backgrounds, exploring a range of …
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IndieKick is a new online community for indie game developers. Â Designed to let indie-viduals (sorry) from various backgrounds (art, coding, etc.) share their portfolios and discover potential collaborators, partners and team members, IndieKick wants to be the place for new teams to come together. Stephen McIntyre, one of the founders of the site, told us: …
Do you need a job? Â Do you have a job, but would like another job, entirely different to your current job? Â Do you dream of a job which will allow you to explore the outer limits of creativity and actually build new worlds and new experiences. Â A job which demands creativity, lateral thinking and inspires …
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YoYo's busy and efficient release schedule is back with the company's latest title emerging for both Android and iOS. Â Froad (is he/she a frog or a toad? Â We may never know...) In Froad, players are challenged to catch and nom down on tasty, tasty bugs - and avoid yucky horrid bugs, to keep Froad alive. …
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Everyone's favourite tangerine coloured, mobile game type, non-analogue, low maintenance, pet themed development studio, Digital Goldfish has had quite a good couple of years, thank you. Â The company's work on the massively popular Bloons franchise has gone from strength to strength, while DG's original content and other branded games have also started to gain traction …
The Courier has helpfully pointed out that several Scottish companies are attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Â It just lists the ones from Dundee and Fife however. Outplay, Tag, YoYo and Zendit are all highlighted, though there are 21 Scottish companies attending the event. From The Courier: A contingent of 21 …
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JACKED is the new book from journalist and author David Kushner (Masters Of Doom) looking at the development of the Grand Theft Auto series. Â Mr Kushner promises to go behind the scenes of the insanely popular series and look at those responsible for making the game happen. We're excited, we won't lie. Â Not least because …
There's a new team in town - and they're refined, elegant and every inch the sort of gentlemen we need in this hectic, hurly-burly world of videogaming larks. Two Monocle Games is a new studio focusing on the creation of social games for networks including the current market leader, Facebook, as well as up-and-coming …