CanadianGameDevs.com Podcast

French indie game studio Guard Crush Games joins us to talk about their 2025 rogue 'em up Absolum which is nominated for Best Indie Game at the Game Awards this week. We speak to Montréal-based devs Cyrille, Léo and Bo about the studio's history and process, working on beat 'em ups using your own engine, getting nominated for Best Indie along with games like Hades II and Silksong as well as more q...

Dev's Games on Steam , itch.io , Tumblr & Patreon | Slaughterneko on Twitch  & YouTube Article referenced: Solo-Devs and Risk-Takers (An Artistic Exploration of Experimental Tools  by Nathalie Lawhead Indie dev, level designer, patron and apologist-to-God Devon Wiersma joins us to discuss their latest release Centauri Dark - as well as life since going full-time indie a...

Read the Full Episode 240 Show Notes on CanadianGameDevs.com Checkout the Quiver Games Incubator ! See the student game Meowmentum David mentioned CANADIAN GAME DEV JOBS  | CANADIAN GAME DEV EVENTS This week we're joined by David Boguslavsky ( @BOmaniaFTW ) Brand & Community Manager at Quiver Games, a "one stop solution to connect with other developers, build up a portfolio, and join...

Read the Full Episode 239 Show Notes on CanadianGameDevs.com Checkout Eric on LinkedIn lolol  (homer voice "Neeeeeerd") No for real Eric's Discord kept dropping but we power through the pain like Rocky punching the meats. CANADIAN GAME DEV JOBS  | CANADIAN GAME DEV EVENTS TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro Music by @jakebutineau  (Toronto, ON), 00:13 Intro, Events, Jobs!, 16:11 'Coral Crown' f...

Read the Full Episode 238 Show Notes on CanadianGameDevs.com sdsadas Checkout Twinolli & Highlighters: Highlighters on Steam  | Twinolli on Twitter  | Highlighters Composer Tori Roberts on Twitter LINKS: JOBS | EVENTS | Joydrop Unionization Labour Board Case Info TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro Music by @jakebutineau  (Toronto, ON) 00:13 - Intro 09:27 - Theme from Russian Subway Dogs...

Award-winning Québécois game developer Kevin aka @dragon_slumber (creator of Tech Support , Arelite Core , Astral Traveler and most recently Aethernaut ) joins special guest host Flynn Ringrose for an electrifying discussion of Kevin's recent plays, watches and step away from full time game dev to other work. Checkout Dragon Slumber's Steam catalogue Follow Flynn on LinkedIn (lol) You can also fol...

Full show notes are available on our site <3 Joydrop Unionization Labour Board Case Info JOBS | EVENTS TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro Music by @jakebutineau (Toronto, ON) 00:13 - Introduction/Events/Jobs 08:37 - 'Player Select' from Streets of Rage 2 by Motohiro Kawashima & Yuzo Koshiro 08:58 - News! 13:43 - 'Battle Music 3' from Baldur's Gate III by Borislav Slavov 14:03 - News Cont'd 21:35 - '...

Full show notes on our website <3 Joydrop Unionization Ontario Labour Board Case Info ! CANADIAN GAME DEV JOBS | CANADIAN GAME DEV EVENTS NEWS: Montréal: Sea Of Stars Gets Surprise Co-op Mode To Celebrate 5 Million Players Montréal & Toronto: Behaviour Interactive snaps up Fly Studio Vancouver & int’l: Tails Noir Developer Eggnut Closes WISHLIST THIS: Goeland by @MaartiGames in Montreal...

See the Winners of our 2023 Community Awards Poll Here ! We reveal the winners and runner-ups for our '23 Community Awards, go over some exciting Toronto indie game dev news and cap off with a long conversation about good (?!) microtransactions and lax technical standards in recent AAA games- and why Spider-Man 2 didn't give us the immediate fatigue Ragnarok did. CANADIAN GAME DEV JOBS | CANADIAN...

Vote in our Community Awards Poll 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! FULL SHOW NOTES HERE (more job resources here)! CANADIAN GAME DEV JOBS | CANADIAN GAME DEV EVENTS HOSTED BY: @StephanReilly (London, O...

Steve adds an obscene amount of demos to his Steam Deck (Dad Deck), we talk about everything Canadian coming up in gaming in 2024 to distract from Stephan's recent termination at the hands of a true coward. Steve's also going to have a baby, so if you want to help us with the site sometime this year reach out lol onward! -> <3 Nominate your favourite Canadian games in our '23 Community Award...

-> Nominate your favourite Canadian games in our '23 Community Awards polls right here <- FULL SHOW NOTES HERE ! OVERVIEW: 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. We're also launching our 2023 Community Awards polls- same as last year there's...

FULL SHOW NOTES HERE ! Follow our guest and patron Jake VanderHeide ( @VanderheideJake ) <3 CanadianGameDevs' Discord | Twitter @CanadaGameDevs | TikTok @canadiangamedevs | Instagram @canadiangamedevs MUSIC USED: 00:11 - Intro Music by @jakebutineau (Toronto, ON) 24:39 - 'King of the Spill' by @TeeLopes (NYC) 40:11 - South of Midnight announcement trailer by @CompulsionGames (Montréal, QC) 1:05...

Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord | Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs | Follow us on our hot new TikTok @canadiangamedevs | We also share to Instagram OVERVIEW : In Stephan's last ever episode recorded from Halifax (probably) we go over Mighty DOOM 's chart topping launch, big indie launches from Newfoundland to Victoria Island and more Canadian gaming news and wishlists. Steve gives his thoug...

FULL EPISODE NOTES HERE! - Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord - Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs - Follow us on our hot new TikTok @canadiangamedevs - We also share to Instagram SEE UPCOMING CANADIAN GAMING EVENTS ! SEE CANADIAN GAMING NEWS ! MUSIC USED: - 00:00 - Intro Music by @jakebutineau (Toronto, ON) - 02:24 - 'Echo Generation (Main Theme)' by @itsPusher (Toronto, ON) - 35:10 - 'Backpack...

Checkout our 1st interview w. Meagan in 2015 | And our 2nd interview in 2020 OVERVIEW : Returning guest Meagan Byrne, founder of Achimostawinan Games ( @AchimoGames ), as well as Art Lead @Sadekaronhes join Stephan to discuss the recent release of their Indigenous noir detective adventure game Hill Agency: PURITYdecay for PC and hear their stories from the game's development. You can buy Hill Agen...

Follow our guest @haleyfax ! Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord | Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs | Follow us on our hot new TikTok @canadiangamedevs | We also share to instagram OVERVIEW : We're thrilled to be joined by Haligonian gamer lawyer extraordinaire Haley MacLean ( @haleyfax , get it) to discuss her GDC experience and impressions, specifically the Goodbye Volcano High demo (and Step...

FULL SHOW NOTES HERE! Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord | Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs | Follow us on our hot new TikTok @canadiangamedevs | We also share to Instagram again! OVERVIEW : The boys are back after a brief hiatus: a little older, a little wiser, a little more worn down- but that doesn't stop us from bringing you the latest Canadian gaming news, events, upcoming releases and ga...

Get into Hololabs' Mobile AR Game SkyHaven's Beta ! | Get Floor Kids on everything | Checkout JonJon's Twitch channel ! OVERVIEW : Over 5 years ago, Victoria, BC-based Hololabs ( @hololabs ) launched their indie rhythm dance game Floor Kids ( @FloorKidsCrew ) on Steam and Nintendo Switch . A collaboration between Hololabs and longtime creative partners Kid Koala ( @kidkoala ) and JonJon ( @JonJonA...

Get and Follow TUNIC | Checkout PowerUp Audio | Play some Sparse games LIGHT SPOILERS FOR TUNIC IN THE INTERVIEW! OVERVIEW : Primary Developer and Designer Andrew Shouldice ( @dicey /Halifax, NS), Audio Director Kevin Regamey ( @regameyk /Vancouver, BC) and Level Artist Eric Billingsley ( @SparseGameDev /Ottawa, ON) join Stephan to discuss the award-winning isometric adventure game TUNIC on its 1-...

PLUGS: Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs Follow us on our hot new tik tok @canadiangamedevs   Aaaaand we're posting news on instagram now!   OVERVIEW : Oodles of news from Canada's 2nd and 8th biggest cities (Montréal/Vancouver) and fresh impressions of Red Nexus Games' delightful Peggle roguelike hybrid Peglin - as well as our first Wishlist This se...

OVERVIEW : Stephan sits down with the Victoria, BC-based indie studio Hololabs ( @hololabs ) to talk about their currently-in-beta augmented reality (AR) project Sky Haven ( @skyhavenapp ) coming to mobile sometime soon. Sign up for the Sky Haven beta at the bottom of their website . We discuss the challenges of AR development, making a geography-based game interesting in Canada's massive surface...

See our 2022 Community Awards Poll winners ! (btw that title means CanadianGameDevs' Game of the Year 2022 if you're not a gamer or if you're my mom <3) PLUGS: - Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord - Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW : The results are in! We go over the winners of our 2022 Community Awards Poll- a fine spread indeed. Then we cover a few news stories including an intr...

Vote in our 2022 Community Awards Poll ! FULL EP 224 SHOW NOTES PLUGS: Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW : We go over all the nominees for our 2022 Community Awards Poll, with a few surprises and few familiar games- and also give our own votes. We talk 2023 news already with Sea of Stars new release window and video with one of the composers as well a...

PLUGS: - FULL SHOW NOTES HERE - Nominate games in our Canadian Game Devs 2022 Community Award Polls   - Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord - Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW : We cover all the Canadian announcements and WORLD PREMIERES from The Game Awards 2K22 edition- and boy did Keighley deliver. We then wishlist some contentious DLC for The Long Dark , dish on what we think o...