CanadianGameDevs.com Podcast

For the first time ever Stephan and Steve gathered around the same microphone (sorry about the slight echo) to record episode 200 of the Canadian Game Devs Podcast! We broke down our personal top 5 Canadian game lists to celebrate the occasion, then Stephan drove 1700km back to Halifax.

Jobs: Jean Leggett will be looking for a part-time producer soon! Archipelago of Design Game Designer Joydrop is looking for Unreal and Unity Developers Events: Fri OCT 22 - Gamedev Atlantic (Online - Halifax, NS) by NSIS “A day-long conference, celebrates and fosters the growth of the game development industry in Atlantic Canada.” Oct 26th - Canada - Melbourne digital games webinar : LEADERSHIP &...

In this interview, we talk with the gang at Recombobulator Games, whose game Spaceboat currently has a week left on Kickstarter. You can also wishlist the game on Steam and play the demo.

The gang is joined by Gabriel from Bluish-Green Productions, a Toronto-based indie dev whose latest project Worlds Within Worlds was featured at GameSlice 2021 so he tells us his experience from the show, what he learned from playtesters, and more! We also go over all the news like the next episode in Vancouver-based Hinterland's The Long Dark (the first new episode in 2 years) to loads of new stu...

Full show notes here: https://canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-197-stephan-smooches-some-swords

Tony joins Stephan to discuss a slew of new Canadian releases, a second Gearbox studio opens in Québec, dates for a couple of upcoming high profile indies and more! We also get into Tony's work as an indie game dev, lessons learned and ambitions for Last Soul

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Donate to The 519, Canada’s most prominent LGBTQ2S community centre and service provider Overview : We're joined by illustrious indie game dev Devon ( @Devon_Wiersma ) to talk Stranger Things leaving Dead by Daylight and what this could mean for the future of licensing in games. We also talk Goodbye Volcano High'...

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Overview : There is an an all-new same old pale french male studio which we discuss. Do people still care about Marvel's Avengers? A new "wishlist this game" from Winnipeg appealing to Stephan's Irish roots, and we discuss our three favourite games of all time. Jobs: Bellwood Studios Senior Game Developer (Unity...

Overview: Activision-Blizzard has studios across Canada and in light of mountains of abuse, rape, assault, and other terrible allegations at the company we've decided to stop our coverage of their studios until further notice. In lighter news, Steve talks Russian Subway Dogs on Vita and his first few hours with Tribes of Midgard - and we totally forget EA Motive announced a Dead Space reboot! Jobs...

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Overview: This week we discuss the Switch Pro that didn't come from Nintendo and its implications for Steve's stay-at-home dad gaming life- as well as why Stephan can't wait to play itchio games on the toilet. We also dig into all the Canadian news, releases and of course a fresh new trio of Canadian games to add...

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society The Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration Find our Guest and Patron Eric at: Portfolio: https://thebotbook.com/   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/botbook/   Overview: This week we're joined by our patron and friend-of-the-site Eric Beer! He tells us about the exciting upcoming...

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Buy the Queer Games Bundle 2021 Buy the Bundle for At-risk and Houseless Youth Overview: Recent reports from credible news outlets show us nothing much of substance has changed at much-maligned development studios like Ubisoft and Scavengers Studio. Steve and Stephan discuss these reports as well as some leftover...

We mainly go over all the games, so not much here for links! We will be back with a normal episode next week with events, jobs and wishlist this but for now check out last week’s post for links: https://canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-188-eh3-predictions

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Buy the itch.io Palestine Relief Bundle Buy the Queer Games Bundle 2021 Buy the Bundle for At-risk and Houseless Youth Overview: We break down all the E3 streams coming up we won't be able to watch so we'll make Stephan watch them afterwards to look for Canadian games. Then we introduce a new segment, new release...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Watch our interview from last year with Meagan Byrne from Achimostawinan Games . Overview: We played the Open Beta for upcoming Toronto-based Torn Banner Studios' Chivalry 2 , a medieval fighting game. We tal...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Watch our interview from last year with Meagan Byrne from Achimostawinan Games . Overview: This week Steve and Stephan discuss our dear friend and patron Devon Wiersma's newly released Bombing!!: A Graffiti S...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Watch our interview from last year with Meagan Byrne from Achimostawinan Games . Overview: The first-ever Edmonton Direct aired this past week showing off oodles of Edmonton-developed games! We take a look at...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Watch our interview from last year with Meagan Byrne from Achimostawinan Games . Overview: Vancouver-based Extremely OK Games, makers of Towerfall Ascension and Celeste , have revealed the vibes for their nex...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Watch our interview from last year with Meagan Byrne from Achimostawinan Games . Overview: Nindies from Canada are coming to Switch! FEZ , art of rally , ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights and the eagerly a...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Watch our interview from last year with Meagan Byrne from Achimostawinan Games . Overview: This week Stephan's audio crapped out at 18 minutes and we didn't notice, so we switch to the Skype backup (sorry). W...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Watch our interview from last year with Meagan Byrne from Achimostawinan Games . Overview: Circumstances prevented us from getting the episode up on time so we pushed it back a week! We dive into all the Cana...

Overview: An exciting new classic beat-em-up from Tribute Games has our Discord in a tizzy, Blood Roots, Mighty Fight Federation, and Star Renegades make the jump to PS4 and more indie updates! In addition to oodles of new jobs, events, and more- let us know what you think <3 Jobs: Sago Mini (Toronto) Data Engineer Senior Unity Game Developer Senior Unity Developer - Lead Unity Game Developer T...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Overview: We're back after a week away to bring you all the Canadian gaming news, events, jobs and more you might've missed! Jobs: Bitwise Alchemy - Consulting Company - Senior Engineer Dark Slope Jobs - Sr....

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! - Referenced Sea of Thieves meme   Overview: On this week's episode we discuss loads of open game dev jobs across Canada, some exciting upcoming digital Canadian game dev events as well as the week's new...

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube ! Overview: Steve quit his job! We also talk Warframe's 8 year anniversary, big update to A Fold Apart, another Canadian studio acquisition and more! Jobs: - Sago Mini - Data Engineer, Unity Game Developer, and...