Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Getting Brands to Pay for in Game Purchases With spiralling development costs, piracy concerns, and a competitive market meaning less return on each project; game developers are increasingly looking at new business models. At the forefront of this is Free2Play or freemium games such as EA’s Battlefield Play4Free series on PC and Rovio’s Angry Birds …
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Dear game developers... The BAFTA In Scotland 2012 competition has less than one week to go before entries close. There is a dedicated games category. If you enter it, you could win a BAFTA. BAFTA winners are glamorous and successful and can tell everybody that they are BAFTA AWARD WINNERS. Winning is a good thing, …
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Unless you're clinically dead, pathologically uninterested in games, or use the Internet exclusively for porn/lolcats, then you'll be aware of BitSocket. They've picked up the mantle of the late and very much lamented Consolevania, producing online news, reviews and games coverage. Now the BitSocket team may - and we're going to repeat that in a …
So you may have noticed the new theme on the http://www.scottishgames.net site. It's the first step in the ongoing evolution of the site as a force for all that is good and right and true in the rapidly evolving wide, wide world o' games. NOW for the FIRST TIME EVER you can find all of …
In one of the most generous and artistically significant moves of the mobile age, the first two seasons of Consolevania, the ground-breaking Scottish videogames show, are now FREE to download on iTunes. This includes the monumentally important Scottish Games Industry Fluff Piece, created by the Consolevania team for the Edinburgh Interactive festival in 2008. It's …
Following on from yesterday's introduction to the 2011 Edinburgh Interactive Festival, we've been contacted by the organisers to promote a special offer, created specifically for developers in Scotland. Edinburgh Interactive is delighted to offer 2 complimentary places for staff in return for 1 Scottish Developer ticket purchased at the cost of only £125 + vat. …
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It's a mere seven days until the start of the 2011 Edinburgh Interactive festival which this year takes place in the Radisson Blu Hotel in the capital's Royal Mile. Offering a blend of industry conference and public events, EI11 promises to deliver an interesting and varied programme, featuring speakers from STV chief Rob Woodward, exploring …
The British Academy Scotland Awards - or Scottish BAFTAs if you prefer - are BACK! After a hiatus in 2010, the awards, which recognise outstanding achievement in the screen industries in Scotland, are now open for entries. Unlike previous years, in 2011 there is a single Games category which will cover all interactive entries. To ensure …
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It's official. Dare to be Digital's ProtoPlay event is going to be the biggest ever. A full on festival of gaming goodness, taking place over three days in mid-August in the city centre. Alongside the games being created by the Dare teams, we hear there is a pro-gamer tournament, a game jam (open to professionals …
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ProtoPlay is the culmination of the whole Dare to be Digital competition. It's a three day celebration of games, gaming and creativity. The teams which have competed over the previous ten weeks, have three days to demonstrate their prototypes to the public, gather votes and impress the hell out of the industry judges. Around this …
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