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

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. Get […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

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

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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. youtu.be/txo0rFRsnrI INFO🧵⤵

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 🫣

Yes, I am petty, why do you ask?

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

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

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!

My god, it's full of cards! I think going "full nordic" with the feedback animations would be inappropriate for the theme, but a bit of bounce is still nice. #monogame #boardgame #indiedev

Skipped last week: away somewhere lovely. Back for #screenshotsaturday now though and we have a skybox and a bit of 4x style camera control. Might need to dim the textures a wee bit though to keep the eye focused on the "table". #monogame #TheresNoSuchThingAsParallaxWhenYourHeadsInABucket

Damnit. Missed #screenshotsaturday, but gotta keep it going! Got the grid done thanks to the most excellent www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ and a small amount of whimpering. Also, hello Binary Star: you were MUCH easier to casually write into a rulebook than to add to the system code.

Microverse is very much a "spare time" project, so progress will be slow, but #screenshotsaturday will hopefully help keep it going! This week: all basic system tiles now have game traits. Oh and billboarded glow for the actual stars. Cause pretty things are pretty. #monogame #writingbadcodeslowly

So: we were working on a #boardgame, a sequel to Microbrew: Microverse. It was a tiny abstract 4x game in a mint tin. It kinda got mothballed mid-pandemic but its been poking at me recently so I'm going to work on a #monogame version a bit and see what happens. Here's a VERY basic 1st POC! #indiedev

The lego league regional at dundee and angus is the largest (i think) in Scotland. 16 teams of young people completing robotics challenges they've been preparing for for months. (This is one of the robot game judging tables mid-match!)

Hardware lab at Edinburgh College is looking pretty festive!

In my experience the most insidious thing about chatgpt output is its "at first glance" plausibilty. My student have been explaining some viable use cases for programming, so I thought I'd give it another go and was genuinely impressed with what it output...

More like Pinkishorangesky this morning...

The sheer ingenuity and engineering skill here is breathtaking. (Skip to 6.40 if you just want to see the robots dance, but your missing out…) youtu.be/EG9ISMjM-uQ?...

Pretty chuffed with how my hacky little #monogame asset processing widget for my novice/student game developers is working out. (Assets by @kenney.bsky.social and sample sheet by lyaseek.itch.io)

Look at how beautiful this tileset is! Wildly beyond my compositional skill to do anything with, but man, I wish... youtu.be/h4qEjGHSqUU?...

Finally deleted twitter. So here we are.