Develop Magazine has published a week of features examining and exploring the games sector in Scotland, kicking off with a provocative piece of editorial asking if Scotland could become the next Finland? Scotland is a nation that potentially faces major political changes this year, but how will that affect the region’s impressive output of video …
OUT NOW Gridlock On Gamestick
Ludometrics has been busy. Â The company is hard at work on its new PS Vita game, Bodycheck. Â The second part of the teams' developer diary is now live and online over on The Vita Lounge website. Ludometrics has also just announced that it's retro arena shooter Gridlock is now available for the new GameStick micro …
VG247 Scotland – Issue 1 – The Best Place To Sell Games
VG247's news editor Dave Cook has just published issue number 1 of his new, regular, Scotland-focused editorial, VG247 Scotland, looking at the state of the games industry as it relates to Scotland and including creators, CEOs and experts from Scotland's video games sector. This new issue explores the various distribution channels available to games creators, …
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Jam On!
The Global Game Jam is the biggest event of its kind in the whole wide world. Â 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 …
Ludometrics Plays Dirty And Bodychecks Sony Vita
Ludometrics, the Glasgow-based developer of games including Bips, This Ways Down, Gridlock and Sock Monster, has announced its next project - Bodycheck. It's an entirely new take on football (aka soccer for our international readers), which is quite difficult to imagine. Â After all, hasn't football been done now? Â Playing AND managing? Â Quite successfully too? Bodycheck …
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OUT NOW: This Way Down – New From Ludometrics
Gravity, as the old saying goes, is a myth. Â The earth sucks. Â Unless you're in one of the more progressive southern states of the USA, where gravity is still very much a theory and has to be taught alongside the concept of intelligent falling. One rather natty feature of intelligent falling is that it can …
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Ludometrics Unleashes Sock Monster On Unsuspecting World
After the Walking Dead, The Last Of Us, Dead Rising and Atom Zombie Smasher, the gaming public have been waiting, poised for a new survival horror game. Â A new and terrifying foe which evokes the darkest fears and dread nightmares... Ludometrics has worked with author Lorna Freytag to imagine this beast, this lurking evil thing …
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Ludometrics Gridlocks Ouya
Ludometrics, the Glasgow-based studio behind titles including Bips, Pet Store Panic and Matching Set, has released its latest title - Gridlock - for the controversial OUYA console.Gridlock is an arena-based shoot-em-up in which the player takes charge of four (4) turrets. Â The goal of the game is to vaporise and pulverise a series of abstract …
Bips! – If PAC-MAN Ate Snake…
Bips! is a brand new game from Ludometrics, out now for Facebook. Â So far so vanilla you might be thinking, but hold those there horses, cowboys n' girls. Â This is no regular release. Â Bips! has a long and noble history, with a pedigree as long as Metal Gear Solid cut scene (one of our New …
Ludometrics Announces New Project (With Added Denki)
Ludometrics, as you may know, is an independent games company in Glasgow's rather cool Merchant City (the bit with the good pubs, restaurants and nice shops). We like Ludometrics. In the last year they've released Matching Set for iOS, football-based quiz title, Quizball and the forthcoming time management game, Pet Store Panic. They also created …
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