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 …
Moray Game Jam – Open For Entries
Entries are now open for the Moray Game Jam. Scotland (and the UK's) most northerly jam EVER takes place on the 14th - 16th of March at the University of the Highlands and Islands' Moray College. Teams are being sought to design and create a new and original game in only 48 hours. The prize …
Moray Games Jam – Be there
The teams at Hunted Cow, Moray College and Screen HI are collaborating to create what is believed to be the most northerly game jam ever to take place in the United Kingdom. The 48 hour Moray Game Jam takes place on March 14th-16th, at Moray College in Elgin. It's open to teams of 2-5 people …
Jam On!
The Global Game Jam is the biggest event of its kind in the whole wide world. Scotland has been at the forefront of the GGJ for the last several years thanks to the team at Glasgow Caledonian University, who have supported it and helped it grow into one of the largest and most active locations …
MolyJam Spreads Over Scotland
Jam! Jams! Not the fruit preserve, but the short form competitions for designers and developers, which allow, enable and encourage freeform jazz-like game creation. They've been springing up all over the shop, baby. From primary school children to charity, from professional developers to first timers, jams are becoming a phenomenon around the world, with Scotland …
Mini Games Jam – Read All About It
Amanda Wilson has written up a great summary of the one day mini game jam which took place last week, for primary school children. Amanda covers the whole process from design to development and judging. The whole entry is worth a read and shows exactly why games design and development is so important for kids, …
Culture Hack Scotland
Culture Hack Scotland is a 48 hour event for developers, designers, artists and producers, taking place in Glasgow's Whisky Bond from July 12th - 14th. CHS challenges participants to create a 'culture related project'. The description of last year's event describes it like this: Culture Hack Scotland does what is says on the tin. It’s …
Unicorn Space Command – Game Jam Title Hits Windows App Store
Unicorn Space Command is a brand new game, created by Martin Grant, 2nd year Games Technology Student at the University of the West of Scotland (that's right, there IS life outside Abertay). Martin took part in a recent games jam at UWS sponsored by Microsoft. Using Construct 2, an HTML5 games editor, he came up …
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Jam Spreads Over Whole Of Scotland
As we've mentioned in the recent past, the Global Games Jam is a 48 hour competition which challenges teams of developers to create a brand new, original game using whatever tools, hardware and platforms they so desire. It's a full on challenge, running continuously over two days and incorporates themes and bonus achievements for creating …
Like Yesterday’s Jam…
The Tag celebratory 6th anniversary game jam has drawn to a close. All teams completed wonderful and marvellous things. Who won? We cannot reveal that. For that, readers, you must visit the Tag blog. There you can see all of the games, find out who won and hear emotional, heartfelt pleas from the employees to …