Interactive Fiction is alive and well and being written in Scotland. Yes, the purest, most literate and graphically rich form of gaming has not died and been buried in an unmarked, unregarded grave, unmourned, dismissed and forgotten. If you're not 'au fait' (literally 'with brains') with Interactive Fiction, it's the old fashioned kind of game …
TIGA Awards 2012 – Open For Entries
The Independent Game Developers Association, or TIGA to their chums (and it's pronounced 'tiger' - see the logo for confirmation) have announced the 2012 TIGA Awards. They're open for entries. Many entries are open to everyone, not just members. There are a huge range of categories covering everything from casual, social, online, debut, student and …
Ludometrics Announces New Project (With Added Denki)
Ludometrics, as you may know, is an independent games company in Glasgow's rather cool Merchant City (the bit with the good pubs, restaurants and nice shops). We like Ludometrics. In the last year they've released Matching Set for iOS, football-based quiz title, Quizball and the forthcoming time management game, Pet Store Panic. They also created …
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Mental MonstAR Motoring Outplay Augments iPhone Fun
Augmented Reality is one of those technologies which tends to polarise opinion. Many people scoff and shun the technology as irrelevant to 'proper' games and label it awkward, inconvenient and nothing more than a jumped up QR code. You friendly neighbourhood Scottishgames.net tends more towards the optimistic and impressed side of things. When Augmented Reality …
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Steve Hammond’s Manual Override – Developer Hell
'Development Hell' is a well-known term for the painful gestation of a Hollywood movie. Whether modern AAA games suffer the same problems from concept to release, I don't know personally but I am certain that they do. I am currently reading Tales From Development Hell, and whilst the movie industry is not the games industry, there …
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Booty Quest – Out Now For iOS And Android
Avast, shipmates. A tot o' rum all round and cease yer keel-hauling of the cabin boy. A shiny new version of Outplay's popular treasure matchin' Facebook title, Booty Quest, has hove into view for them new Apple and Android gadgets and now you can shiver your timbers on the go. OK, enough piratism. Booty Quest was …
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Civil War: 1863 – New iOS Strategy Game From Hunted Cow
A nation divided. Two opposing sides, united by a love of their country, yet torn asunder by irreconcilable differences and notions of what it means to be 'an American'. Ideology, political wrangling and corruption descending into hostility, conflict and open warfare... Not the forthcoming US elections, sadly, but the American civil war. A period of …
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Scottish Government Responds To Creative Industries Report
It's been a tumultuous and busy 24 hours. News of the research into Scotland's creative industries has spread throughout the global games sector and into the mainstream media... Now, the Scottish government has been in touch to tell us that they know it's wrong and they're working on better figures and more reliable information. Here's …
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No Revenue, No Value, No Students – Videogames Sector In Scotland Doesn’t Exist
Yesterday we reported that the digital media and interactive sectors had been inexplicably omitted from the 2012 Year of Creative Scotland awards. Today the reason may have become a little clearer. The games industry in Scotland does not exist in any significant way. It contributes nothing to the economy, there are only 200 people working …
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Games Have No Place In A Creative Scotland
2012 has been the Year of Creative Scotland. A nation wide celebration of creativity which highlights all of the amazing talent, the clever businesses and the dedicated organisations we have here in Scotland. Unless you work in digital media. The recently announced Creative Scotland awards have categories for film and television, literature, music, theatre - …
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