Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Glasgow's Claymore Games is bringing back the bright lights, furious action and neon-drenched wonder of video games arcades in the 1980s, with its latest release, NeoArcade. No longer do aspiring gamers have to head into a sticky and badly-lit arcade, chock full of unsavoury types, clutching a sock full of 10 and 20 pence coins, …
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Solar Flux, the original new sun-saving, gravity-defying, inertia-dampening, ufo-controlling game from Glasgow's Firebrand Games is now LIVE on the Apple App store. We saw the world-exclusive hands-on preview at last weeks Dare to be Digital Indie Games Showcase and it is eye-wateringly beautiful. Every level is centred around a huge, dying sun. The player has …
From a mysterious and relatively unknown company somewhere in the wilds of Northern Scotland, Hunted Cow has emerged as one of the most active and rapidly growing games companies in the UK. Last week the company announced it had signed a deal with Criss Cross Games to bring the studios' first game to market. …
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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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Hunted Cow, the highlands-based developer and publisher behind games including Tank Battle: North Africa, Battle Dungeon: Risen and Fallen Sword, has signed a deal with Dundee's Criss Cross Games, to bring the studio's first title, Crystal Reign, to market on a number of platforms, beginning with iOS and Android tablets. Details on the game are …
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In an app store awash with clones, copies and tired retreads of existing genres, originality is all too rare. Games can quite easily aim for instant mainstream acceptance, losing any real identity in their race for the lowest common denominator, or can be defiantly aimed at 'real' gamers, so bullet holes and orcs abound. Which …
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Codeplay is an enigma. One of Scotland's most successful technology companies, with a truly global reputation, yet they work on such secret projects that most people never know about all the consoles, mobiles and devices it helps shape, optimise and prepare for developers to build the next generation of awesome upon. Now Codeplay is hiring. The …
IT has begun. 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, …
Chock-A-Block is an original new sliding block puzzle game from the team at Claymore Games. It's out now for iOS, with Android and Windows Phone versions coming soon. Chock-A-Block combines the simple, easily understood classic 'match 3' gameplay (put three or more of the same things together to make them vanish and pick up points) …
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Outplay Entertainment, the venture backed entertainment company in Dundee has officially released its latest title, Idol Words on the Apple App Store. Billed as a cross between a word search and bingo, Idol Words challenges players to create high scoring words and clearing their playing board of letter tiles. We asked Richard Hare, president of Outplay where …