Due to overwhelming demand we have decided to extend the deadline for award submissions to the Scottish Games Awards 2023. Entries will now remain open for the Scottish Games Awards until 18:00 on Monday 25th September 2023. We understand the effort and dedication that goes into preparing award submissions, and we want to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to participate. The...
The judges for the 2023 Scottish Games Awards have been announced. Several leading Scottish games and news journalists are joined by a noted games entrepreneur and a member of the Scottish parliament, to choose the winners at a ceremony which will be opened by Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The judges will be selecting winners for 15 categories of award, celebrating...
Alongside the four GAMES trophies in this year’s Scottish Games Awards, we also have five CRAFT categories, highlighting excellence in a number of specialist areas. These are: Art & Animation Technical Achievement Audio Creativity Best Tools/Tech Best Education Programme While these (hopefully) speak for themselves, we’re still aiming to get a really broad range of entries and recognise work from across the whole games ecosystem. So let us...
Time is ticking on and entries are flooding in for the 2023 Scottish Games Awards – but what exactly are they – and why should you enter your game, your colleagues, or even (we’ll whisper this) yourself? The idea behind the games awards is very simple. We want to celebrate and showcase the incredible work being done across Scotland today. In 2023. One...
Team Terrible, the Dundee-based studio responsible for The Baby In Yellow - one of the most downloaded games ever created in Scotland - has joined forces with Scottish Games Week 2023 as the event’s Platinum sponsor. This will give the studio a high-profile presence across the whole week-long programme of events, which take place in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow from October...
Scottish Games Week, the first-of-its-kind celebration of Scotland’s booming games industry, is over. The combination of hundreds of attendees and dozens of participants made the week-long, Scotland-wide series of events a roaring triumph. Six major events took place across Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee from the 24th-28th of October, with an additional seven satellite events also taking place across the rest...
Now that Scottish Games Week is over, we want to give some special coverage to the worthy winners in the first-ever Scottish Games Awards. Today, in the final article in this years’ series, we’ll be looking at Amicable Animal, the developer behind SOLAS 128, winner of the Audio award. We sat down with the game’s Designer and Programmer Tom Methven, as...
Now that Scottish Games Week is over, we want to give some special coverage to the worthy winners in the first-ever Scottish Games Awards. Today we’ll be looking at ION LANDS, the developer behind Cloudpunk, winner of not one, but three different awards: Art and Animation, Creativity, and Best Large-Budget Game. We sat down with Cloudpunk’s Lead Writer Thomas Welsh, to...
Now that Scottish Games Week is over, we want to give some special coverage to the worthy winners in the first-ever Scottish Games Awards. Today we’ll be looking at Brilliant Skies Ltd., the developer behind From the Depths, winner of the Technical Achievement Award. We sat down with their Director and Lead Developer, Nick Smart, to discuss his journey from defence...
In this, the final part of our series of articles on YAHAHA, we’ll be discussing the idea of User Generated Content (UGC) as a whole, and how it is becoming a game-changer on the game development scene. Do It Yourself While the idea of players creating and sharing their own content in a game isn’t new, the extent to which the idea...