CanadianGameDevs.com Podcast

Full Ep. 222 Show Notes here PLUGS: FOLLOW OUR TWITCH FOR EXTRA LIFE THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW : We wishlist a trio of horror titles and discuss the closure of Square Enix Montréal, the new Square Enix IP allegedly being developed in London, ON, and more gaming news. We get first-time-liking-a-card-gamer Steve's glowing i...

Newfoundland-born and Halifax-based writer, filmmaker and (most recently) game designer Kyle Sharpe's point-and-click, horror game Batty Zabella runs on a GameBoy- but he's also releasing it on itch.io . We talked with Kyle about the constraints of developing a game that has to run on decades-old hardware, the underserved strain of "funny" horror in games a la Addams Family or The Munsters and muc...

FULL EP 222 SHOW NOTES HERE PLUGS: Follow @BluePinStudio1 and checkout their games on Steam Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW : Stephan is joined by Toronto-based game developer Viktor from Blue Pin Studio, whose upcoming project Explory Story has been covered on this program extensively. We talk about the new spin off studio from fellow Toronto devs...

PLUGS: Join our Discord! Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW : We talk about all the new CDPR announcements in light of their Vancouver studio, Dead Space remake details coming out of Motive Montreal, and loads of impressions of upcoming Canadian indies based on demos from the latest Steam Next Fest! EVENTS: Indie Cup Canada '22 - online exhibit starting Oct 20, award nominees revealed N...

PLUGS: Follow our guests @Symbiosis_games Join our Discord! Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW : This week we're talking to Symbiosis Games about their spiritual successor to 2005's beloved Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory which is set to release on Steam in 2023: SPECTRE . We talk about what it means to modernize a classic gaming experience, their intriguing Californian patron...

FULL EPISODE NOTES Join our Discord! - London, ON-based trans streamer Keffal's Twitch Channel OVERVIEW : Huge development in the forced abroad Canadian streamer Keffals' story battling online abusers and doxxers, a new game from Dauntless ' devs coming exclusively to Switch, Stephan and Steve dish on The Last of Us Part 1 and much more Canadian gaming goodness! EVENTS: - Indie Cup Canada '22 - on...

Join our Discord! London, ON-based trans streamer Keffal's Twitch Channel and GoFundMe Campaign OVERVIEW : Oodles of Gamescom announcements from Canadian studios and projects- from New Borderlands to a massive Age of Empires anniversary to loads more. We also go over all the fresh Canadian video game releases, wishlist some unreleased Canadian indies and talk about what we've been playing to close...

FULL EP 216 SHOW NOTES Join our Discord! London, ON-based trans streamer Keffal's Twitch Channel OVERVIEW : Stephan regales Steve of his incredible time at Canada's largest retro arcade bar in London, ON, called Tilt. He finally understands pinball and the appeal of those flapper thingies. We discuss a scary swatting in a transphobic attack on a London, ON-based Twitch streamer. We wishlist some g...

Checkout the 2022 Games from BC Steam page   OVERVIEW : Yet another BioWare veteran has quit the beleaguered studio who hasn't shipped a new game since Anthem in 2019 (if you don't count the Mass Effect collection- which we don't). We've got oodles of new details on Digital Extreme's successor to Warframe entitled Soulframe which I think is a great name. We've of course got all the upcoming g...

Full show notes: https://canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-214-qubecs-very-stupid-language-bill EVENTS: - Online Grant Writing for Creatives Workshop hosted by Hand Eye Society ( @HandEyeSociety ) - July 13th @ 6pm EST: “Join us as we delve into the often intimidating field of Grant funding and give you advice on what grants you can apply for, how to write arts grants, and typical expectations to me...

PLUGS: - Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land 🌎 - Get the Queer Games Bundle 2022 "to support queer people in a life changing way and in exchange you get over 500 amazing, heartfelt, fun, and radical games." OVERVIEW : Is the new TMNT game Tribute Games' ultimate tribute? What the heck got announced at Keigh3 and do the developers at Cococucumber Co ever sleep? We investigate these question...

In a little over a month James Russwurm and his colleagues at Keywords Edmonton, who’d been supporting BioWare Edmonton with quality assurance support since the Mass Effect Legendary Edition , unanimously unionized their studio creating the FIRST game dev studio in the country, the third in North America after Vodeo and Raven Software. This is his story. You can follow the Union on Twitter KWS Edm...

PLUGS: - Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land 🌎 - Get the Queer Games Bundle 2022 "to support queer people in a life changing way and in exchange you get over 500 amazing, heartfelt, fun, and radical games." OVERVIEW : This (slightly late) episode we discuss exciting updates to retro puzzler Highlighters (including a sick listen to the trailer song). Then we break down several new releases...

(This one was also named by Stephan- let it be known.) Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land 🌎 OVERVIEW : We (Stephan specifically) celebrates the BioWare contract studio Keyword's unionization drive and recent win of a key demand that work from home remain for everyone who wants it. We also discuss Behaviour Interactive's surprise but already highly anticipated Dead By Daylight dating simul...

Summary: This week we talk dumb PR ways not to say a game is cancelled, we celebrate Abhi's announcement they're leaving their job to do Venba development full-time, Phantom Compass' cool new game preservation move and more! Full show notes: https://canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-210-just-say-its-canceled FOLLOW US: Website: https://canadiangamedevs.com/ Twitter: @CanadaGameDevs MUSIC USED: - Int...

In this interview, we talk with the young guns Angelo Graci (@agraci07) and Ryan Farkas (@RyanFarkas7) from Sol Studios (@SolStudios) about their new company, making their debut project Wormhole, their process, lessons learned and hopes for the future.

Full episode notes: https://canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-209-the-data-innovation-centre-of-excellence A massive acquisition of Canadian studios this week by the Swedish Bond-villain-sounding Embracer Group. Achimostawinan wins a cool $50k in hard-fought Indie Prize. The Big Con finally finds a not-bad GOTY version name. Join the Steve's as we dish Canadian gaming news, events, jobs, impressions...

Full show notes: https://canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-208-unionize-bioware-stephan-named-this-one

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3 OVERVIEW : PlayStation has its first Canadian studio since forming 27 years ago, thanks entirely to Steve and this site. Inscryption wins big at GDC/IGF awards ( Boyfriend Dungeon wins one too). Then Steve and Stephan gush over TUNIC and the amazing in-game manual. Finally, Steve gives his review of the long-awaited #DadDeck (Valve's new Switch-like...

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3 OVERVIEW : After a much longer than anticipated hiatus, we're back to discuss the rather dramatic series of stories coming out of BioWare- the much beleaguered Edmonton-based EA subsidiary. JOBS: Here are all the game dev jobs we’re currently advertising on the site! Butterware Studios - Game Developer Job Unity/GameMaker Studio Insert Coin Account...

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3 This week we're joined by software developer, game creator and great Twitter presence Adam Boyce ( @AdamBoyce4 ) currently working out of London, ON (home of the last Jumbo Video/Microplay combo in the world). He joins Stephan and briefly Steve to discuss upcoming gaming events, news, wishlist some upcoming indies and get to the bottom of how capita...

For this week Steve and Stephan discuss our own personal Canadian games of the year as well as the Canadian game we most want to get back to as well as our most anticipated Canadian game yet to release! The polls for our 2021 categories will go live to the public on January 7 so stay tuned (we'll add the link here once it's live). For Steve, his winners are: Canadian game he most wants to get back...

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3 Get the full show notes here: https://www.canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-203-all-that-was-canadian-at-the-keighleys

Get all the links here: https://canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-202-crunchy-pixels-are-better-than-smooth

We're back! Sort of - it's been a while for Steve and Stephan so we go over the Canadian games we've played in the past few weeks and give our impressions/reviews. Stephan: - Inscryption -Age of Empires 4 - The Vale - The Big Con Steve - Guardians of the Galaxy - Chivalry 2 - Echo Generation  - JETT: The Far Shore