As part of this year's Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Screening Director Brian Baglow was asked to organise some sort of event to celebrate Scottish development. The predictable option would have been some sort of networking evening, but instead he commissioned the chaps behind online videogame TV show, Consolevania, also based in Scotland, to make a film exploring the wealth of development talent north of the border.
"The whole thing was shot in three days, one each in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh the week before the festival," explains Baglow. "Then the guys had only four or five days to edit and master it (or whatever you call those bits) and stick in all the music and credits."
The resulting 'jockumentary' (Brian told me to write that) can be viewed here or downloaded from here and it's an enjoyably ramshackle 50 minutes of developer interviews and swearing, covering everything from smaller mobile game studios like Dynamo to Crackdown creator, Real-Time Worlds.
Push aside whatever you had scheduled for this evening and check it out. It's worth it for the failed Cohort interview alone.
