Reporting on the games made in Canada and the creators behind them
Colin Cummings who is over at The Third Person was kind enough to have me on their podcast to talk about our Game of the Year results, as well as my own personal Game of the Year. Check it out on their site!
Friend of the site Jake Butineau was also on it, including a bunch of local devs - so check it out!
David B joins us from the west coast best coast to talk about the upcoming Quiver Games Incubator!
Bizdev extraordinaire Eric Beer joins us to give his Hades II impressions and chat v-bucks subsidized game preservation.
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 many more!
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.
The results are in, and we now have our Game of the Year winners! As you recall, because of Patron's, we actually had five categories: Best Port, Best Mobile Game, Most Anticipated Game, Best PC-only Game, Best Multi-platform Game.
Here we go!
Best Port
3rd: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)
2nd: Jazzpunk: Director’s Cut (Necrophone Games)
1st: Severed (Drinkbox Studios)
Best Mobile Game
3rd (tie): Bee Odyssey and Skies of Fury (Illumination Games)
2nd: Star Pirates Infinity (Snakehead Games)
1st: Oh No! Ninjas! (Blot Interactive)
Most Anticipated Game
3rd: Shakespeare's Landlord (One More Story Games)
2nd: Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft)
1st: Guacamelee! 2 (Drinkbox Studios)
Best PC Only Game
3rd (tie): A Mortician's Tale (Laundry Bear Games) and Disco is Dead (Third Floor Games)
2nd: Bleed 2 (Bookdisk Revolution)
1st (tie): Polyball (Studio Monolith) and Danielle's Inferno (One More Story Games)
Best Multi-platform Release
3rd (tie) Embers of Mirrim (Creative Bytes) and For Honor (Ubisoft)
2nd: Graceful Explosion Machine (Vertex Pop)
1st: Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
hanks to everyone who voted! And congrats to @Jonavan22 who won the $50 PSN/Xbox/eShop/Steam card for RT'ing us on Twitter.
Robo X: http://www.torontogamedevs.com/blog/robo-x-2-the-lost-energy-coming-to-mobile-devices-december-24th Steam Winter Sale: http://store.steampowered.com/news/35783/ Toronto Game Devs GOTY: http://www.torontogamedevs.com/blog/game-of-the-year-voting-starts-next-week Follow Jake at: https://www.youtube.com/c/jakebutineau https://twitter.com/jakebutineau http://www.torontogamedevs.com/
With this week being crazy, holidays and such, the 3rd Annual TorontoGameDevs Game of the Year voting will start sometime next week.
In the meantime, subscribe on Youtube, iTunes, and follow us on Twitter. What has your Game of the Year been?
Last year, N++ won the Game of the Year voting. Who will be the winner this year? Vote below, and in the new year I'll post the winners!
Only one vote per person, but you can vote for as many games as you want. If I missed any there is a Write In feature at the bottom, or let me know on Twitter.
Note: Ports didn't count (sorry Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and N++), but DLC, and extra episodes do. Feel free to use the search on the right hand side to find out more about that game.
Edit: Voting is done! Check out the results here!
Welcome to the first annual TorontoGameDevs.com Game of the Year! The only place to vote for your favourite game that was locally created (Toronto, Ottawa, London, Southern Ontario, etc). All you need to do is vote for your favourite game(s) below and sometime early next year, I'll announce the winners.
To make things extra fun, I will be buying the Game of the Year for one lucky fan! All you need to do is leave a comment on this post with your Twitter handle, or email (so I can contact you). When the voting is done, I'll get in touch with you and figure out the best way to buy you the game.
Vote and win! Boom.
Remember to leave a comment, and if we have forgotten someone, make sure to let us know. Happy voting!
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