News involving the games developed in Canada, and the people who make them. Indie Games, AAA Games, and in between featured and reported on.
Mohammed is a local Toronto author who prides in storytelling in video games. He recently wrote a blog post about why we play video games.
Mohammed and Steve discuss story in games, and the recent Telltale closing.
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We break down Baldur Gate 3's unprecedented success & the knock-on effects it'll have on the industry and how we make games moving forward. We also speak to Ontario-based indie game devs Twinolli about their upcoming action-puzzler Highlighters which just got a (Dad Deck-verified) Steam demo!
We speak to Québécois game dev Dragon Slumber, creator of Tech Support, Aethernaut and other games.
We reveal the winners of our ‘23 Community Awards poll and discuss Drinkbox’s latest teaser for their next project- and more!
This week thousands more game developers join Stephan in the "terminated by evil, stupid people" camp as layoffs hit tons of studios all over Canada and the world. We discuss Sonic as well. Sonic supports Unionizing your Workplace!
Stephan got terminated but that’s okay he just has more time to cover Canadian games now.
After a (ginormous) hiatus, Steve and Stephan are BACK to discuss some Canadian Games Industry news from the past few months but just catch up and talk about games and big game thoughts, man… and launch our end of 2023 Community Awards Polls! Nominate now!!
KEIGH THREEEEEE! New Compulsion Games’ game, Thunder Lotus goes multiplayer, age-old game development questions pondered and Zelda hierarchy debated.
In Stephan's last recorded and produced episode in Halifax, NS, we dive into a bunch of Canadian games from Fire Station to Super Animal Royale to Project Dark. We also talk new Canadian Nindies announcements and more news!
We've done nine interviews so far, concluding with our most recent one with the guys behind A Fold Apart. As sort of a summary concluding what I'm just randomly calling "Season 1" of interviews - here are all the ones I've done.
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1) Jason Canam - Developer behind Way of the Passive Fist (which just got updated)
2) SteelRain27 - Twitch Streamer located here in Toronto
3) Dan Stopnicki - Developer behind Skies of Fury DX on Switch
4) One More Story Games - Blair and Jean Leggett up in Barrie discuss their story-driven game engine.
5) Felicia Valenti - Local singer, and game voice actress.
6) Benjamin Rivers - Rivers is a local developer who has released Home, and Alone With You.
7) Alex Bethke - Local developer who has worked on over 100 games, and has been involved with Toronto Game Jam for several years.
8) Galal Hassan - Another local developer working on an AR mobile escape room game. Galal went to E3 and gives his take on being an indie dev at the biggest convention for games.
9) Lightning Rod Games - Mark Laframboise and Steven Smith who are working on A Fold Apart
Hey! So we've done six interviews so far and I wanted to make sure you didn't miss any - here they are!
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Vancouver-based indie studio Vblank Entertainment (@RetroCR) is releasing physical versions of Shakedown: Hawaii for PS4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, Wii and Wii U.
The free-to-play “Monster Hunter” clone released by Vancouver-based Phoenix Labs Dauntless will have its 1.0 version launch September 26th across all platforms.
Our first audio-interview! We've put the podcast on hold for he time being, and instead we'll be doing interview with local developers/people. Bret and I have a few ideas on hand as well.
First up is Jason Canam from Household Games who just recently released Way of the Passive Fist on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Jason and I chat about his time at Drinkbox Studios, starting Household Games, accessibility in games, trophies/achievements and more!
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