Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The 2011 Dare to be Digital competition is now open for entries. The competition is open to students from any university or college of art, either complete teams of five, or individuals willing to join a team. It's no secret that Scottishgames.net is a HUGE fan of the competition. It's a unique opportunity for teams …
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Tealy & Orangey is a brand new online game from MainlyAboutGames.co.uk, aka Freakyzoid, aka Mr Anthony Gowland. Written in about seven days, as a bit of an exercise to practice Flash and Flixel, Tealy and Orangey is a platformer with a twist. You control two blobs - one teal and one orange (those colours are …
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Scottish Architecture & Design is looking for game designers/developers who can help them to create online games for the organisation's website. The designer can be an individual or part of a larger organisation. The only information about the game/s notes: "Content of the games will be developed by A+DS with technical advice from the appointed …
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Exciting! High Action! Visceral! Online! According to Ruffian's latest blog post, the company is already hard at work, with the follow up to Crackdown 2, the company's first release, which was released back in July 2010. Ruffian is now advertising a number of engineering roles to work on two, as yet undisclosed projects which promise …
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You might not have come across Hunted Cow before now. The studio is based up in the frozen north of Elgin and works mainly upon browser-based MMO games, including Fallen Sword, SigmaStorm II and Gothador. The company recently picked up an exporter of the year award from the Moray Chamber of Commerce and has now …
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Play2Improve, the company behind FPS Trainer, the new online service which teaches gamers to compete more effectively in online FPS games, is holding it's public world premiere on MONDAY 20th December, at HMV's Gamerbase on Princes Street in Edinburgh... FPS Trainer, the brand new online service which combines sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based coaching technology with …
This weeks banner comes courtesy of Chris Gilchrist of Hitreach in Arbroath. Offering a wide range of services, from web design and search engine optimisation, through to graphic design, Hitreach offers most of their services white labeled to other agencies. Harking even further back than last week's homage to the home computer revolution, Chris has …
Dundee-based indie games developer Spiffing Games has released its latest title, Infected, which is now free to play online. Infected is an unashamed homage to classic board games like Go or Othello, in which the player has to place pieces on a grid to occupy as much space as possible and turn the opposing player's …
This weeks Scottishgames.net banner comes to you courtesy of Mr Dan Bendon, the editor-in-chief of Scotland's most personable (and opinionated) online games website: Ready Up. Mr Bendon tells us he was inspired by a Scottish legend and felt that Scottishgames' unique blend of news, updates and analysis, was similar in a way to the zesty …
Last week's sale of APB to K2 Network, will allow Begbies-Tryanor, the administrator of Realtime Worlds to settle all outstanding wage and holiday pay claims, according to the latest report from GamesIndustry.biz. Paul Dounis from the liquidator is quoted as saying: "We are obviously very happy to have concluded the sale but at the same …
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