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Mike Stirling and his colleagues from Beano Studios helped kick off the inaugural InGAME Game Jam. A Game Jam is gathering of artists and developers tasked with planning, designing and developing a game prototype within a short time frame. Beano and its cast of characters are part of the fabric of Dundee and the studio… Read more »

It was a tremendous feeling to open the doors to the new InGAME R&D Centre and give local game studios a little taste of what InGAME can offer the city of Dundee and beyond. We hope those in attendance enjoyed the experience but for those unfortunate to miss out, we will provide a short overview… Read more »

InGAME will mark the opening of our new R&D Centre with an Industry Taster Event featuring the best and brightest of Dundee’s industry and academic talent. The event offers the first opportunity for local games companies to learn about the facilities on offer through InGAME and to get the inside track on the R&D Voucher… Read more »

Gregor White, InGAME Co-Director and Dean of Design & Informatics and Professor of Applied Creativity at Abertay University, delivered the lunch time talk at VA Dundee this afternoon.

InGAME is delighted to be supporting V&A Dundee’s first video game commission, Plaything, developed to complement their next exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt. The exhibition runs from the 20th April to 8th September 2019 and InGAME will be providing technical and production support for Plaything for the duration of the exhibit.

Marie-Claire Isaaman, CEO of Women in Games, opened our first Innovation Lab, a regular feature of InGAME which will create exciting opportunities for the Dundee games industry. An Innovation Lab brings together industry and academic partners to explore the challenges that face the local games sector (and beyond). We plan to hold four innovation labs a year, each hosted by a new collaborator and on a new theme.

InGAME welcomed Manuel Badel, founder of Badel Media, for a masterclass in blockchain in the creative industries. He was joined by Bronwin Patrickson and Ronan Sandford, creator of Etherplay, in exploring how blockchain can be utilised in a video game context.

InGAME has gone gold and we’re excited to get started. InGAME is led by Abertay University, in partnership with the University of Dundee and the University of St Andrews, in collaboration with local and international industry stakeholders. The primary aim of the project is increase the value and scale of the Dundee video-games cluster through creative experimentation, exploiting innovation and sector intensification.