Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Developers. Dare ProtoPlay wants you. And your games. Dare ProtoPlay is the culmination of the annual Dare to be Digital competition. In previous years, the competition drew 10-15 teams of students travel to Dundee for the summer and build a working prototype of their game, before demonstrating, playing and showing them off in public at …
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Scottish independent game developer Neil Moody has just released a series of PC/Mac games based around the the concept of 'gravity'. There are seven game and two 'meta games' in the pack, all local multiplayer, designed for 2-4 players. Neil created the games for the makega.me 'series' pageant, which challenged developers to create several linked …
Towards the end of 2013 we heard about the latest project underway at Ruffian Games in Dundee. Â 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. Â Ruffian slipped back into stealth …
There's a new studio in Scotland: Pixel Sword.  Based in beautiful Bo'ness, Pixel Sword is an independent developer, founded by Paul Leishman.  Paul's been around the industry, having worked with Proper Games, Dynamo Games and most recently Ninja Kiwi. Pixel Sword is already working on a couple of games, the intriguingly titled Pixel Raiders and the …
Lub Vs Dub is a brand new game, for iPhone and iPad, which was born in the blistering forge of the 2013 Global Game Jam. The game picked up the Best Tech and Best Game awards at the event - and went on to be showcased at a number of independent game events, including the …
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IT has begun. Â Dare to be Digital 2013, the games design and development competition for students is now LIVE in the city of Dundee. Fifteen teams from all around the world have come together for the next nine weeks to build a new and original game, before demonstrating it in front of thousands of families, …
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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This is entirely wonderful. Â I've been banging on about marketing and supporting your game for years now. Â With what seems like little effect. Â So it was a real pleasure to find an excellent piece, written by the very smart Kristina Seznec, about helping the team at Lucky Frame with their press and marketing. Â You can …
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This arrived in Inboxes earlier this week. Â It's from Pixels On Toast, creators of the critically acclaimed Food Run and Word Crasher. They are clearly working on something. Â The question is... what? Â Something about a monorail? Â A zip? Â Quite a flat castle? We don't know. Founder, Kevin Ng, is something of an elusive figure, combining …