Glasgow Games Expo
Early November 2023 we hosted a satellite event for Scottish Games Week, in our games biased Glasgow Eagle Lab, to expo some of Scotland's very talented upcoming studios.
The Glasgow Games Expo event was a great opportunity to network and attend interesting round tables covering some inspirational stories. The event created opportunities for our games partners, indie developers and games industry bodies, to showcase their work, make introductions and network.
The well attended Roundtables included
Round Table 1 - Neon Hive
How to get the most out of marketing for your game
Round Table 2 - UKGF
Finding funding. A roundtable with a range of size of studio founders discussing what game development funding is available, how to apply for it, and how it should be deployed to best effect.
Hosted by Colin Macdonald. Over nearly 30 years Colin has overseen dozens of games, including the early Grand Theft Autos, Crackdown, and licenses of Lemmings and Prince of Persia. Colin spent six years as Channel 4 Television’s Games Commissioner, and now runs Games Jobs Live, advises Rivet Games, facial animation specialists Speech Graphics and Johnston Carmichael's Tech Advisory Board, hosts Games Talks Live industry events, publishes the monthly Games Opportunities newsletter for developers looking for funding/development opportunities, and was recently appointed to the UK Games Fund.
Round Table 3 - Hyper Luminal Games
How to build a successful Games Studio
Hosted by Stuart Martin Chief Executive and Rob Madden Creative Director 9 years ago formed Hyper Luminal Games straight out of graduating from Abertay university in Dundee. These two best friends went on a journey and have now created Scotland's largest independently owned work for hire studio, and fulfilled their ambition to build out their own original titles, the studios latest Pine Hearts is released in March 2024.