Towards the end of 2013 we heard about the latest project underway at Ruffian Games in Dundee. Tribal Towers was the company's first indie project, a new and original game, in which players built their own armoured and armed towers, while trying to destroy their opponent's. Then it went quiet. Ruffian slipped back into stealth …
Beeswing – Rural Scotland RPG On Kickstarter
Scotland boasts a large number of developers and development studios, 94 at our last count. Yet few of the games emerging from the development community are actually based in Scotland itself. So it was a delight to find Beeswing a new Zelda-like 2D RPG game currently seeking crowd funding for development. Set in and around …
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Dare To Be Digital Indie Showcase – Developers Wanted
Developers of the world, is your chance. Show off your games, demonstrate your creativity and get that all important audience for ALL of your titles... The Dare to be Digital Indie Showcase is part of the event's growing indie gaming festival, giving games creators the chance to show their games in public. To an audience …
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Dungeon Smash – Coming Soon To Xbox Live Arcade
Dungeon Smash is a brand new Xbox Live Indie game, from Haiku Interactive in Edinburgh. The game is a re-imagining of the classic arcade title, Gauntlet, where players must explore multiple levels of an infested dungeon, fighting off enemies, finding provisions and seeking the kidnapped princess. The game promises some real old-school arcade action, using …
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Dare ProtoPlay Indie Fest Programme Confirmed – Wow!
The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be rather busy. We're not talking about the Olym-ic-, or the opportunity to be die of exposure at a picnic. We're talking about the games goodness and the head-to-head smackdown taking place between the incumbent Edinburgh Interactive Festival and the plucky upstart of Dare Protoplay and it's …
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Dare 2011: GO!
It's that time again. 15 teams from 16 universities around the world are now in Dundee, with only NINE weeks to create a working videogame, before showing it off to members of the public at the ProtoPlay event in central Dundee in August. This year's event is larger than ever before. Entries were received from …
IGDA – Scottish Chapter
The International Game Developers Association is a global non-profit organisation serving games developers (according to the website). There was, very briefly, a chapter in Scotland, which met a couple of times in Stirling, on the basis that it was equally inconvenient for everyone. It didn't last however and while there are a number of individual …