Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Sophia George, the V&A museum’s first ever Game Designer in Residence, has launched her first game, inspired by her work with the V&A - a brand new iPad game inspired by the work of textile designer William Morris. Strawberry Thief takes its title from from a famous William Morris furnishing fabric, which is on display in …
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A full five years after the launch of the original iBomber - and the start of an epic series of games - Cobra has just released the latest title - iBomber 3. Like the original, the aim of the game is simple. Blow stuff up. It's like the apotheosis of video gaming. Blow stuff up, get …
Shred It! is a brand new and original mobile game from Glasgow's EM Studios. It's a snow boarding title, challenging players to make their way down a really big mountain, avoiding obstacles, pulling tricks, collecting power-ups and looking cool. To keep things exciting, the course is procedurally-generated, so the obstacles and collectibles are always in new …
Edinburgh's Inceptional has released it's latest title, iLectronz for Google Play and the Apple App Store. And to celebrate, has made all of it's games FREE! iLectronz is described as a bit like a vertical Pac-Man, only different. Demanding precise hand/eye coordination and reflexes like an electronic cat, which has had lots and lots of fizzy …
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Dundee's Beartrap Games has released its first original new title. Sky Patrol is now live and exclusive on Windows Phone. Sky Patrol is an action-packed strategic shooter that puts planes in your pocket. The game features 50 explosive levels, masses of offensive, defensive and entirely destructive weapons and 'strategic weapon deployment and path creation' though …
Scotland has done quite well in the popular 'tower defence' genre in the last few years. Ninja Kiwi's monkey-based Bloons TD hit several Best Games lists, while Lucky Frame's Bad Hotel walked off with a BAFTA and Cobra's underrated iBomber Defense and iBomber Defense Pacific were classics of the genre. Now there's a new kid …
Size DOES Matter, a frantic music-fuelled arcade game and winner of the last BAFTA Ones to Watch Award, is OUT NOW, published by Channel 4. The game was one of the three main winners at Abertay University’s Dare to be Digital contest in 2013, securing one of the ultra-exclusive nominations for the BAFTA Ones to Watch …
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Lucky Frame's The Nightmare Cooperative, the collaborative, co-operative, collective rogue-like dungeon crawler, is OUT NOW and we're frankly taking the afternoon off to go and play it. As we gushed when first we heard about the game, it's a turn-based rogue-like, with a unique co-operative twist. As you find new player characters in the dungeon, …
Snakes. On a cube. We missed this when it was originally released, but Scotland's Pocket Starship has found an original new twist on the classic and ubiquitous Snake. It's on a cube. You wind your way around each of the six sides and pick up food. Your snake gets longer. It's a simple twist, but …