The Struggle with Student Journalism: Where Is The Voice?

Allow me to stray off topic for a moment. Usually, we post articles based on the recent developments in and around Scotland, or write reports on events that we attend to aid in some exposure for developers and their software. However, I want to take the opportunity to highlight the struggles that we at Amber Glass have faced over the past few months as a student journalism team, and how students should be speaking from beyond the boundaries of the lecture hall.

"Money, dear boy": Realoaded Productions' Luck with Kickstarter

With members of Amber Glass trotting across Scotland and getting to all sorts of exhibitions, I figured that I would get patriotic over Scottish Gaming and started searching for more games developed here in Scotland. If this was a joke, I suppose the punch line is that I eventually started playing All Points Bulletin: Reloaded.

Two Days of Darkness: Four Games of Fear

Recently we talked about Two Days of Darkness, an event spread across two days creating various media based on the horror genre hosted by the National Theatre of Scotland. Saturday (18^th May) was the Two Days of Darkness showcase and we thought “who better to send along to a horror showcase and see what it’s all about than the easiest scared member of Amber Glass?

Can We Fix It?

So I’ve been home in Cumbernauld (nothing to shout about, let me tell you) over the weekend, having a break from studies before my final push towards the summer break, and I was referenced by my brother to an expanding initiative, which I thought would be of interest to Scottish developers.

The Radical Development of Mobile Gaming

So, I have been looking around various websites to cover gaming in a much more local level when I stumbled onto the website for the game Celtic Heroes by One Thumb Mobile which was celebrating their latest patch. I can’t tell you much about my gameplay experience since the game is an iDevice exclusive, but from what I’ve seen it is surprisingly impressive.

Scottish Women In Games 2013: Sexes Represent!

When I was growing up, you would've had more chance finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow than hearing "women" and "games" associated with each other. But, following the recent Scottish Women In Games event, I would love to travel back to that time and give them the "You were wrong!" lecture we all so love to hear. The time for representation has never been so prominent in today's industry.