The Independent Game Developers Association, or TIGA to their chums (and it's pronounced 'tiger' - see the logo for confirmation) have announced the 2012 TIGA Awards. They're open for entries. Many entries are open to everyone, not just members. There are a huge range of categories covering everything from casual, social, online, debut, student and …
Compendium Of Interest – Turing & Technology & The World Of Tomorrow
A week ago, the second Turing Festival took place in Edinburgh. The inaugural event in 2011 was astonishingly good. Diverse, eclectic and expert, it pulled in speakers and participants from a huge range of disciplines and, almost uniquely, seemed to focus on a speaker's ability and knowledge, rather than job title or employer. I spent …
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Digital Spark – Intellectual Property Event
Digital Spark is a new event, it ran for the first time in Dundee last year under the auspices of Abertay University and pulled in a very worthy set of speakers. The event is back for 2012 and is building upon the success of the last year. Digital Spark promises to explore the whole area …
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Governments Tax Breaks Consultancy – Get Involved
The government's proposed tax breaks system for the interactive industry has generally been considered a good thing. The devil, however, is in the details. Many developers are at least partially suspicious that the government will grant tax relief only to meda corporations, or make the process so hideously complex and tied into a spurious sense …
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TIGA Calls For Scottish Creative Content Fund
TIGA, the independent game developers association, has proposed the creation of a creative content fund, to the Scottish government. According to the press release, the fund would encourage the creation of new studios and businesses, stimulate the creation of new intellectual property and co-fund new content development. The proposal has picked up strong support from …
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Creative Scotland Joins TIGA
Creative Scotland, the organisation for promoting and supporting the creative arts (yes, all of them) in Scotland (oddly enough) has joined TIGA, the indepdenent game developers association. Creative Scotland emerged from the ashes of the Scottish Arts Council, which looked after the traditional 'arts', and Scottish Screen, which looked after film, television and latterly, games …
TIGA – Bigger, Better, Faster, More (Awards)
It's been something of a hectic week for everyone's favourite industry body. TIGA has been even busier than its normal hectic pace and is spitting out good news like a happiness sprinkler filled with rainbows. The organisation started the week with news that it has been nominated for no less than SEVEN awards in the …
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NESTA To Establish Developer-Led Games Publisher
NESTA - the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts has called on UK game developers to contribute to the creation of a developer-driven (and owned) publisher, to help ensure the protect the future of the games sector in Britain. NESTA is looking for game developers t get involved in establishing a developer-owned and …
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Canadian Developers Receive Multi-Million Dollar Boost
Following significant activity within the Scottish government at Holyrood and the UK government in Westminster, regarding the issue of tax breaks for game developers, new has emerged that the Canadian government has made a multi-million dollar investment to the country's development community. According to Develop: The Canada Media Fund this month granted CA$12.9 million (£8m) …
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