Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The Hello World! Startup Summit has already surpassed 120 registrations, bringing together a high-concentration of future founders, ambitious freelancers, and senior talent in transition. We are opening our exhibition space in the University of Glasgow ARC Atrium to Scottish indie studios for a "Living Lab" showcase. This is not a traditional trade show booth. We …
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Yesterday, Barclays' Glasgow HQ hosted the highly anticipated Scottish Games Frenzy 2024, bringing together the Scottish (and UK) games industry. Key creators, developers, and stakeholders from across Scotland were in attendance, with many smaller indie studios and new teams taking part. In a year marked by economic uncertainty and industry layoffs, the Scottish Games Frenzy …
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UPDATED (28/10/24)!! Barclays is offering a full and fun-packed day of games at the 2024 Scottish Games Frenzy, which takes place in their Glasgow HQ on October 31st and celebrates the incredibly talented Scottish and UK games businesses. The Games Frenzy is an opportunity to showcase your games, meet other developers, network with friends, peers …
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Glasgow Games Talks is an evening of talks, demos and networking for games creators, which takes place on July 7th in Glasgow city centre.
Friday marked the launch of the 2015 Moray Game Jam, which is taking place at Moray College in Elgin. Not only does this make the jam the most northerly in the whole United Kingdom, it marks the return of one of the friendliest, most collaborative events in the gaming calendar. This year's competition has pulled …
Radius is a new indie games festival, held in the heart of London. It took place last week and drew in dozens of indie developers including our very own David Thomson of Ludometrics fame. Because he is a splendid fellow and thoroughly nice chap, Dave's written a round-up of the show for us. Thank you …
News hit the games media yesterday that Microsoft has been signed deals with a number of well known indie studios around the world. Â 32 studios from Japan to Finland are named, including many best known for their mobile titles.Sadly no studios from Scotland appear to have made the list. Â Developers including Vlambeer (Ridiculous Fishing), Half …
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Game City is, in our opinion, one of the most exciting and original video games events anywhere in the world. It exemplifies all that is best about gaming. Â It celebrates the culture and the activity of actually playing games. Â It champions the creativity and design of the video games world and it manages to avoid …
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Students, new developers, indie studios, you have a few days left to enter a game in the NEW TALENT Awards. Â This is a great competition. Â It recognises creativity and new and up and coming game creators. Â It needs your input... If you're working on, or have just released your FIRST game, you should qualify for …
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Hello world. Welcome to the all new Scottishgames site. Your single, central resource for everything happening in, relating to and coming from the industry of making games in Scotland. Developers, indie studios, universities, supporting organisations and local media will all be featured here, making it the place to find out what's going on in and …