BAFTA PLAY is the first EVER BAFTA Scotland games event. It's taking place on WEDNESDAY 8TH MAY at Glasgow Caledonian University's Saltire Centre, kicking off at 6:30pm. It gives visitors from the film, television and games industries, a chance to meet and see the winners of this year's BAFTA New Talent Awards and the Scottish …
Unicorn Space Command – Game Jam Title Hits Windows App Store
Unicorn Space Command is a brand new game, created by Martin Grant, 2nd year Games Technology Student at the University of the West of Scotland (that's right, there IS life outside Abertay). Martin took part in a recent games jam at UWS sponsored by Microsoft. Using Construct 2, an HTML5 games editor, he came up …
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BAFTA New Talent Award Winners
The BAFTA Scotland New Talent awards took place in Glasgow's rather lovely Oran Mor on Thursday night, with a glittering and star-studded ceremony. The New Talent awards are a unique competition within BAFTA, which nurtures, supports and celebrates emerging creative practitioners, film makers, writers, animators, directors and of course game creators. The competition is open …
Jamming in Diversity – The Trials and Tribulations of the Jam
Jamming isn’t the easiest of things. However you do it, undertaking a 48 hour journey to produce a game from conception to birth, isn’t easy and there are likely to be stumbling blocks along the way. The first of these is the brick wall that exhaustion causes. It’s just physically draining to work for long …
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Scottish Games Jam – Now In Glasgow AND Edinburgh – 100% More Gaming 100% More Jam
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 …
Dundee Game Jam – May 28th 2011
Dundee, city of many discoveries. Home to jute, journalism and the all-new Dundee Game Jam. Taking place at Abertay University on (Saturday) May 28th, from 09.30 - 17.00. It's open to students, professional game developers, ex game developers, reformed games developers, talented amateurs and anyone who can put together the basic pieces of a videogame. …
Global Game Jam – Underway And Winning…
The Scottish arm of the global games jam is GO. And is... progressing? Keep up to date with the latest from the competition here.
Scottish Games Jam – Coming Soon
2011 promises to be quite the creative wonderland for game designers and developers. Anything which encourages new talent, new games and more innovation gets our whole-hearted support. The first development-related event of 2011 is rapidly heading our way. The 28th of January marks the start of this year's Global Games Jam - a worldwide game …