Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Day two of the Dare 2013 indie festival took place on Friday 9th August. The theme of Convergence carried over from the previous day with an equally eclectic line-up of speakers and panels, examining issues around the ongoing evolution of the games industry. Like day one of the conference, there were some truly inspiring speakers …
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At 5pm on Sunday the 11th of August, the 2013 Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay event drew to a close. The four day even in central Dundee, pulled in a record breaking crowd of 13,000 players, gamers, developers, designers, stars, ministers, legends and families. Fiona Hyslop, the Cabinet Secretary for Culture & External Affairs opened …
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Girls with a love of computer games are being encouraged to consider making games as a career, with a free talk at the Dare ProtoPlay festival in Dundee on Thursday 8 August. BAFTA-winning Sophia George, who is also the V&A’s first ever Game Designer in Residence, will take the stage with Erin Michno, co-founder of …
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Other is an entirely new type of game, created by one of Dundee's most exciting new game developers. It exemplifies the fact that interactive media is changing every aspect of the creative industries, in new and unexpected ways. It's also an important project because it brings together a number of partners, including many that games …
We've mentioned Quartic Llama several times in the last few months. The company received Prototype funding for its first title, lit up Abertay University as part of the NEoN festival and has participated in every opportunity to show their games off and talk to the public. It's as though they're excited and enthusiastic about what …
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The NEoN 2012 festival introduced a new event called Drop In And Play. They invited smaller developers to take their games along to the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre and let members of the public play with them. Denki Quartic Llama and Lucky Frame all joined in, as well as the Malta-based digital artist Pippin Barr. …