Staking Claims is an original new game from Guerilla Tea - and there's a good chance you've already played it... The company tells us their inspiration for the game first appeared on a slot train to London. To pass the time, the team grabbed a notepad and pens and started playing an old game they remembered from …
OUT NOW – The Quest (Redux)
The team at Guerilla Tea are clearly not people to lounge around, resting on their laurels, sipping rum-based cocktails. Mere weeks after the company launched the Cancer busting game, Genes In Space: Play To Cure, it is launching a redeveloped version of their first (BAFTA nominated) game, The Quest. It's rather lovely. The goal is to …
Gamers Complete Six Months Of Cancer Research In One Month
Players of Guerilla Tea's Play to Cure: Genes In Space have completed six months worth of research in the month since the game was released. The amount of actual data is quite astonishing. According to Cancer Research UK: If this amount of DNA – tightly-coiled strings of genetic information – was unravelled it would stretch …
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…And Then It Was Over – Game In Scotland 2014
That was fun... Game In Scotland took place on Saturday afternoon. This year's event moved out of the grim and slightly sticky Fat Sam's nightclub, which had been its home for the last eight years and moved it into the spring sunshine in Abertay University's brand new games centre of excellence. The 2014 Game In …
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OUT NOW – Genes In Space – Fight Cancer, Save The Galaxy
Games can change the world... In July 2013, the team at Guerilla Tea announced that they were working with Cancer Research UK on a new game which would use real world clinical research data. Players would manipulate this data as part of the game, creating a huge virtual team, speeding up research and potentially providing …
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VG247 Scotland – Issue 0 Now LIVE – Read, Watch, Play
VG247's UK News Editor, Dave Cook has done something disruptive. He's started a regular column on the VG247 site focusing on the video games sector in Scotland.Covering business news, releases, updates and interviews, VG247 Scotland will be an ongoing feature on the site and combine in-depth reporting, with news updates and a new industry discussion, …
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Develop’s 30 Under 30 – Scots Galore
Develop magazine has published its annual 30 Under 30, a list of up-and-coming stars in the world of games development. Quite a wide range of Scottish developers made the cut this year and were featured in the list. Step forward and take a bow please: Simon Kilroy, Software Engineer, Ruffian Alex Zeitler, Co-founder and CTO, …
Develop Names 100 Hot European Start-Ups
Develop magazine has produced a list of the 100 most exciting start-up companies in the European video games industry. Five Scottish companies make the list: Guerilla Tea, Quartic Llama, Space Budgie, Stormcloud and Swallowtail Games are noted for their work to date, awards received, download numbers and general air of being on the verge of …
Company Profile – Guerilla Tea
Name of company: Guerilla Tea Date founded: 2011 Location: 31 South Tay Street, Dundee, DD1 1NP Online: http://www.guerillatea.com Contact details: info@guerillatea.com, jobs@guerillatea.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guerilla-Tea/ http://www.facebook.com/GuerillaTea https://twitter.com/GuerillaTea http://www.linkedin.com/company/guerilla-tea Founders: Alex Zeitler, Matt Zanetti, Charlie Czerkawski, Mark Hastings Background of founders: Code: Alex Zeitler hails from Bavaria and has been programming since the age of 7. Twenty years on …
Cancer Research Appoints Guerilla Tea To Build World’s First Mobile Game To Seek Cancer Cures
Here's a story which makes us excited to be part of an industry which is leading the way into the future and shows there's far more to 'games' than most people would credit... Guerilla Tea is a development studio based in Dundee. The company has worked on a number of altruistic projects in the recent …