Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
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. 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. 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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Last night saw the first meeting of the new cross-party group on videogames technology at the Scottish Parliament. Convened by MSP Joe Fitzpatrick, whose constituency covers Dundee, the group is designed to look at the whole games sector and how it can do business more effectively in Scotland. Despite many companies attending the Game Developer …
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It's request time, readers. Anthony Reynolds from Glasgow University is looking for people to help his research into gaming culture and mature content in videogames. It's not another survey into violent games = violent behaviour. Rather he's looking for input from gamers to help shape the research itself. If you can spare 10 minutes at …
Because it's important, dammit... A misty-eyed Cara Ellison from Square-Go interviews a steely-eyed and chiselled Robert Florence on the legacy of Consolevania. If you're not familiar with the Consolevania 'thing', well, you should be. Thankfully you can now download all of them (including the inspirationally Scotland-heavy Fluff piece) from iTunes. Go read the piece, watch …
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Highway Hobo is the game formerly known as 'Bummer' aka, the Frogger type game featuring a drunken bum. If that's not a premise that makes you immediately interested, then we don't know what will. Out now on the Android market (or Google Play as we must now call it), from the team at Braindead Ape, Highway …
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IndieKick is a new online community for indie game developers. 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: …
The Scottish chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has racked up a significant number of achievements over the last year. They've organised a number of very well attended events and pulled in some world class speakers at the same time. Less well known however is the fact that the IGDA awards annual scholarships …
Do you need a job? Do you have a job, but would like another job, entirely different to your current job? 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. 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. Froad (is he/she a frog or a toad? 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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