Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

Scots game studio overwhelmed by success of newly-launched Glasgow cone game

Post Thumbnail

The city of Glasgow has plenty of architectural and cultural landmarks, but one of its most iconic is a traffic cone sitting on a statue’s head.

Now, for anyone who’s ever spotted an abandoned cone and felt a mischievous urge to place it somewhere it shouldn’t be, there’s an opportunity to do just that safely and legally.

Earlier this week, Dundee-based games studio Darkroom Interactive released Cone Game, which sees players control a cone as it tumbles around a virtual Glasgow.

Once they find a suitable spot to plonk themselves down, they can leave a message for other players to find.

In just 24 hours of the game being live to download online, almost 1000 cones were placed around the city as gamers whiled away their free time during the lockdown.

Landmarks available to place a cone on top of include the Finnieston Crane, Armadillo, Glasgow Tower and the Clyde Arc.

Matthew Aitchison, who came up with the idea for the game and is part of the team of Abertay University graduates who built it, said he was shocked by its success.

He told The Sunday Post: “I’d had the idea for a while. Everyone’s seen cones around cities and wondered how they’d got there.

“We thought it would be a funny game, I just imagined a map full of cones and people placing them.”

Cone Game was born as part of a game jam, a contest where developers are given a theme and a deadline to build a game by.

Glasgow was the perfect location to recreate for the game, and the team got to work making replicas of its famous sights.

“We’ve always wanted to do something a bit more close to home,” Matthew added.

“Publishing a game is a new thing to me so it’s a big shock the response we’ve got.”

The game had a helping hand from a retweet from comedian and avid gamer Limmy.

“It spiralled out of control there,” Matthew said. “After he shared it, in a few hours the game was flooded with people referencing his sketches and local jokes.

“That’s the biggest surprise, how it kept local somehow even though it’s globally accessible.

“The game’s objective was supposed to be a competition to get the cone into the hardest to reach places.

“Weirdly enough people have kind of ignored that. The ability to place messages has meant people have started to have wee conversations.

“It all happened in the span of a few hours which is crazy. The sad part is they’ve overwhelmed the thing. Because there’s so many cones we’re resetting it today.”

The team behind the game are primarily based in Dundee, with a few members working remotely from Edinburgh and China.

They hope to expand the game to build on its potential in the coming weeks.

Download the game at https://darkroomgames.itch.io/cone-game