Representing Scotland's videogames and interactive industry.
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... Continue Reading →
2014 saw the inaugural Moray Games Jam take place at Elgin College in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. As far as we can tell, it remains the most northerly game jam in the UK... It was excellent. 45 designers, artists and developers took part and a wild time was had be all. Now the 2015 jam... Continue Reading →
There's a brand new inter-University Jam, or Hack, or coding marathon taking place on the 11th & 12th of October. Organised by the British Computer Society and sponsored by Amazon's Development Centre and code ninja's Codeplay, APParition has been created to promote the abilities and inspire competition among the region’s future coders, testers and developers. To... Continue Reading →
There's new games jam happening - and it's a little different. Glasgow Caledonian University has partnered with BAFTA Scotland to host the Y Not Jam. The Y Not Jam is an all-women event that will take place at Glasgow Caledonian University between Friday the 29th of August and Sunday the 31st of August. The Y... Continue Reading →
Like the wider industry, game jams are evolving. A number of jams, hacks and codeathons in the last few years have moved beyond the idea of merely creating content in a ridiculously short space of time and have instead focused on using data in new ways, or crowd-sourcing news ideas to help solve specific issues. The... Continue Reading →
On Friday 4th - Sunday 6th July at Abertay Univerity's Hannah Maclure Centrea brand new 'jam' will be held. Rather than the increasingly common 48 competition in which multiple games are created, this jam is centred around the theme of a storyworld. Different narratives within the same environment or universe (think The Hobbit and The Lord of the... Continue Reading →
That's it. It's over. The first ever Moray Game Jam which is, as we may have pointed out, the most northerly game jam yet to take place in the UK, is all over. They came, they coded, they had pizza. Nine games were created. It was, by general acclaim, awesome. The theme of Ied The... Continue Reading →
It's Saturday afternoon. The first ever Moray game jam has just past the first 24 hours and all nine teams are powering into their projects. The theme of the jam, is it changed the world and many of the teams have taken this in directions of inventions, medical discoveries or indeed the total destruction of... Continue Reading →
We want to reach those with a shared interest in how technology and open data could improve life for those living and working in Glasgow. People with imagination, vision and enthusiasm to collaborate and develop innovative ideas using open data and technology that could improve life for those living and working in Glasgow and have... Continue Reading →
The recently created University of the West of Scotland Game Development Society recently held its first ever Game Jam. Taking place from 31st January - 2nd February 2014, the jam was organised by Martin Grant and Stephen Mcgroarty of the UWS Games Dev Society. The jam pulled in Computer Games Technology and Computer Games Development students... Continue Reading →
