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Been busy 😅
A poster with a green background which reads: EDJAM 2026, Come Make Games - No Experience Necessarily Under that there is a jam made of game parts, surrounded by a bunch of different developers. Some are writing, making board games, composing music, painting, and coding. Beneath the text continues. In-Person: January 30th to February 1st (starts 18:00) Online: from Januar 26th Sign up now: bit.ly/edjam26 All Skills and Disciplines welcome. There is a QR code which has the same URL.
It's time to start shouting about EDJAM 2026!
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
In unrelated news, I've just thought of a great name for my coffee shop.
A wee trailer for the about-to-be-released interactive 3D model of the Empire Exhibition of 1938. The original modelling of all these pavilions was done in 2007. This new app incorporates archival materials and quotes from contemporary Glaswegians.
#Glasgow #history #research #playfulLearning #3D
It's been a rough time for games but one thing that's kept me going is the fact we're running a showcase for our student's games on the 7th of August at CodeBase Edinburgh!
- Totally free to attend
- 10+ locally developed games
- Come support new devs 🧡
👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/mdesi...
ECGX 2025 showcased the new games - and talent - emerging from Edinburgh College. Georgia Cairns reports on the event for the SGN.
Tmrw is SWITCH 2 LAUNCH Da
...no wait, I mean it's EDINBURGH COLLEGE GAMES EXPO!!! #ECGx
Thu 5th June, 17:30, CodeBase, #Edinburgh
👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/edinb...
Besides all the truly amazing #gamedev student projects, we're also hosting 14 #indiegames by #Scottish #indiedevs. Look!🧵👁👁⤵
It's now only 2 sleeps to #ECGx! Where did all those sleeps go?
If you're in #Edinburgh this Thursday, come to CodeBase from 17:30 to play 40 student and #indiegames, including Keeno, a lo-fi village-management game that's not to be slept on.
Free tickets and info: dub.sh/ecgx2025
A poster for ECGx. It shows 3 screenshots of student projects and an image of a young person with blue hair and a checked shirt playing a puzzle game on what looks like an old CRT. (The game is CRT7, by Amicable Animal.) The screenshots contain images such as cute blob characters in a colourful pixel art environments, and what looks like a glowing robot or warrior in a dark eerie space. At the bottom are the words "Let's play some games!" and details of the event, including the date (5th June) and the URL https://dub.sh/ecgx2025 where you can find more info.
Hey #gamer / #gamedev of #Edinburgh! Do you know about #ECGx? 👀
It's a free night celebrating both our amazing students and local #indiedevs! You can play 40 (FORTY! 🫨) hot indie games and student demos at CodeBase on Thu 5th June, from 5.30.
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Calling #scotgamedev & folks interested in #Scottish #gamedev in #Edinburgh! Please boost the post quoted below to help out our amazing college students!
Grab yerself a ticket while you're at it!😁
@hubworld.bsky.social @scottishgames.bsky.social @brianbaglow.bsky.social @scotgamedev.bsky.social
Screenshot of "Epic Wizard Game". Purple platforms are set against a lilac sky with pink clouds, with stylised sprites of wizards and cute monsters on them.
Screenshot of "Htraes Trail". An epic, flat-shaded landscape, with a lo-poly mountain standing against a bright moonlit sky. In the distance a huge snake-like monster is rearing its head.
A screenshot of "Come Bye". A sheepdog is surrounded by sheep in a bright and sunny meadow. The on-screen UI mentions that there are 33 sheep today, and that total sheep saved and lost is 25 and 4.
A poster for ECGx. It should 3 screenshots of student projects and an image of a young person with blue hair and a checked shirt playing a puzzle game on what looks like an old CRT. (The game is CRT7, by Amicable Animal.) At the bottom are the words "Let's play some games!" and details of the event, including the date (5th June) and the URL https://dub.sh/ecgx2025 where you can find more info.
9 sleeps until #ECGx ! 👀
Here's some more pics from our amazing FE & HE #gamedev students. Come to #Edinburgh College Games Expo, 5th June, CodeBase, and you can play these amongst 40 games from both students and #indiedevs. Yes, FORTY!
Get free tickets & info here👉 dub.sh/ecgx2025
#scotgamedev
We've been invited to be guest exhibitors at this year's #ECGx! Two members of our lovely team will be there presenting our demo, so if you're in the city of Edinburgh come and say hi!
Was called a dobber by a glaswegian space pirate - 10/10
Since it's #ECGx season, I figured that, rather than panicking and trying to get Exon's existing levels back in working order for public exhibition, it might be better to make a brand new -- SMALL -- demo level using all the new props. One that, you know, passers-by might be able to beat.
Here's another student game (title TBC) you can play at #ECGx. Bounce into @codebasetech.bsky.social in #Edinburgh on 5th June to solve this 1st-person traversal puzzler & unlock a whole test chamber of 30+ student & local #IndieGames to check out!
Tickets + details > dub.sh/ecgx2025
#ScotGameDev
Into the Restless Ruins
(a Scottish dungeon deckbuilder with IMPECCABLE vibes, by Ant Workshop)
is out!
You should buy it today!
But if you don't, you should wishlist it, then come to #ECGx 👈 on 5th June, try it out in person, *then* buy it.
Or both!
#ScotGameDev #IndieGames #GameDev #Edinburgh
We’ll have something new at this…
Here's a preview of Trespasser Deep, by one of our talented teams of #GameDev students.
Discover its lurking leviathians, and dive into a sea of #IndieGames and student projects at #ECGx, the #Edinburgh College Games Expo on 5th June.
Links below! 🤿🔦🦑
#ScotGameDev #IndieDev #LookOutForThatSquid
The Edinburgh College Games Expo 2025 is coming!
#ECGx is both the end-of-year-show for #Edinburgh College #GameDev students
AND a mini expo for #ScotGameDev!
Come to CodeBase on Thu 5th June (5:30pm) to play around 30 or 40 games from students and local indies.
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OK, so this week we have #noscreenshotsaturday. I love #monogame, but the 3d support is massively behind the 2d and my early decisions have started to smell so it's time to refactor of the 3d backend (a grander name than it deserves!) and clear some technical debt. Hopefully it won't take too long 🫣
That ship'll sail anyway when it hears about how mean I am to my robot vacuum cleaner.
Old timey bottle of medicine saying "Genuine AI - works on anything! - Snake Oil" with a disclaimer saying "Do not verify results. If results are poor, you used the wrong model. Or it will soon. Or you used it wrong." The image is AI generated.
Yes, I am petty, why do you ask?
Huh. LinkedIn is leaking.
With some better code underneath - time to work on the card actions again. Firstly lets get some animation going as the cards transition between placements - a little lerp should do for now. Might make it fancier later...
#monogame #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
With a digital #boardgame like Microverse, the ability to cache player actions and undo them seems pretty important, so this week we have a simple command pattern layer between the player inputs and the game world.
Very satisfying to build a galaxy and then undo it!
#monogame #screenshotsaturday
Did you see this one?
www.theverge.com/news/628666/...
"What if clippy was in your video games?! Would that make you proles give us $20 a month for no reason?! Please say yes!"
Late again!
Microverse players now have their stock of influence and hexes, which doesn't sound like much, but it involved refactoring a bunch of stuff to c# Interfaces that *should* make things easier later on.
Also cute rollout tooltips for funsies.
#monogame #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
Very litle time to work on Microverse this week.
I wanted to get the "weird" systems implemented for #screenshotsaturday, but the Binary Star was being a bit of a dick so the Nebulae and Black Hole do exist, but the underlying code is bit of a mess.
I'll regret that later...
#indiedev #monogame
I think they're supposed to sound *vaguely* plausible.
Satisfying one this week!
Cards are now in "hands" or "displays" and have backs. AND systems can now hold and display their influence totals. First time for #screenshotsaturday that Microverse has started to feel like the beginnings of a proper #monogame #boardgame thing!
