Exhibiting At A Festival – Lessons For Indie Developers

After a jaunt to the frozen North, visiting the far frontier of UK games development, we return with a guest post from the astonishingly resilient Colin Riley (aka @Domipheus) who took part in the first ever Dare to be Digital Indie Showcase at this year's Protoplay event.  We say resilient because Colin ran his entire …

Scottish Success With IGDA Scholarships

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 …

Pugs Luv Beats Nominated For IGF Award

Lucky Frame's quirky and deeply cool Pugs Luv Beats has been nominated in the Independent Games Festival's 'Excellence In Audio' award category. The IGF is the world's leading indie games competition.  It runs alongside the prestigious Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco in early March.  All of the finalists will have their …

FPS Trainer Hits Beta, Announces New Features/Content

The Team at Play2Improve has been hard at work on FPS Trainer since the innovative training and coaching service for First-Person-Shooter games was announced in late 2010.  The response to the initial press release was very positive.  So much so that the hosts of the original website, immediately collapsed under the tsunami of visitors.  As …