Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Out now, just in time for Christmas, comes Save Santi the brand new game from Edinburgh's Inceptional. Save Santi is a retro-styled puzzler in which the player must alter each level to help a handful of cute, cuddly, fuzzy and otherwise lovely little critters to reach dear old St Nick and save his jolly old …
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We've just added a grand total of NINE new jobs to the Scottish Games Network JOBS page this morning. Â They're all from game developers or technology companies and cover a huge range of roles, across Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh. This is our biggest JOBS update ever - and there are more to come. If you're …
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Occasionally we receive intriguing e-mails, or notifications of new games in development that we weren't aware of. Â Even more infrequently, this unknown new game can be astonishing, impressive, truly original or bewildering and terrifying. The Official sits neatly in the middle of those last two categories. Â There's something particularly creepy about the retro, low polygon …
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Edinburgh's Gamevial is a development studio focusing on browser-based gaming. Â The company is one of the most prolific developers in the country, having created around 100 titles, which can be found and played through the Gamevial website. Gamevial's titles can best be described as 'diverse'. Â The company has released games including Russia's Army, a multi-player …
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So in the run up to the joy of Christmas and the virtual madness of thousands of new apps, price drops, sales, new handsets, the closure of Open Feint and the many, many days of stress and madness to come, we thought we'd do something lovely for all of the games companies in Scotland. If …
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At a star-spangled awards ceremony, presented by Edith Bowman, in Glasgow last night, the 2012 BAFTA in Scotland awards were handed out. Winners included household names such as Billy Connolly (lifetime achievement award), Gregor Fisher (Best TV Actor) and Stuart Cosgrove (Outstanding contribution to Broadcasting). However, for the second year in a row, all eyes …
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Despite hundreds, if not thousands of years of anecdotal sightings, reports and intriguingly blurry photos, there has been no definitive proof of the existence of mysterious cryptids such as the yeti, sasquatch or skunk ape. Reports of flying bipedal hominids are even rarer. Â One thinks of John Keel's experiences in Point Pleasant, Virginia, with the …
The Blazing Griffin team's Kickstarter campaign to fund the sequel to The Ship, has been revamped, updated and improved. While we loved the performances and production values of the original video on the popular crowd-funding site, many people expressed concern that it didn't feature enough information about the game, the studio, the project, or indeed …
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The Scottish Game Jam is a 48 hour game development marathon which takes place every January, as part of the larger Global Game Jam, which pulls in teams and individuals over over the world, competing to make a new game in only two days. Scotland's Game Jam has taken place in Glasgow Caledonian University for …
Word Crasher, the game which manages to combine Scrabble, Tetris and dropping Mentos with all letters on, into Coke, has been revised, updated and  polished to a mirror sheen by Edinburgh-based indie powerhouse and one man dynamo of Wonder, Pixels On Toast (aka Kevin Ng). Word Crasher now reflects the beauty and integrity of Kevin's …