our show covering the industry and talking to folks in it
Steve from The Tough Customer stopped by to chat about Assassin's Creed Odyssey - Ubisoft latest in their popular franchise. We go into depths on the story and characters, what we thought of the game and series as a whole and what we want from the future. Let's dive in! (and make sure to follow him on Twitter)
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.
Are you interested in becoming a social media marketer? What about running a marketing campaign for your indie game on a low-to-zero budget? Corina Diaz is here to answer all those questions and more as we discuss indie games, and marketing around them.
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Solo indie dev expert and longtime friend-of-the-site Devon Wiersma joins us to talk their latest release Centauri Dark, working across AAA, mid-sized and solo indie dev and how to fix this goshdarn industry.
We speak to Québécois game dev Dragon Slumber, creator of Tech Support, Aethernaut and many more!
Primary developer/designer Andrew Shouldice, Audio Director Kevin Regamey and Level Artist Eric Billingsley join Stephan to discuss the award-winning isometric adventure game TUNIC on its 1-year anniversary.
Hololabs joins us to talk about their upcoming mobile AR project Sky Haven- and some of the lessons they've learned so far.
We talked with Kyle Sharpe (aka Ice Cold Blood) about his debut point-and-click horror game Batty Zabella. We discuss 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 much more.
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.
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.
In this interview, we talk to Andrew Czarnietzki & Jen Laface, cofounders of Edmonton-based indie game studio Only By Midnight (@OnlyByMidnight). They’re working on their debut game Curved Space which launches later this year on Steam, coming to Xbox One, Switch and (hopefully) PlayStation 4 in the future.
In this interview, Stephan talks to game and narrative designer Meagan Byrne (@byrne_meagan), founder of Achimostawinan Games (@AchimoGames).
In this interview, Stephan talks to Tomas Guinan, a solo indie developer from Truro-based indie studio Spoony Bard Productions (@SpoonyBardToma), whose NES-styled retro brawler Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl launched on Steam and Nintendo Switch in early May.
Bret and Steve this week discuss all the news that’s happened in the last week, plus discuss why ports on Switch seem to be much more than on Steam/Consoles. Steve also breaks the news to Bret that Red Dead Redemption 2 is not coming to PC (not yet anyways).
After launching on Steam last year, St Catharines based Rocketship Park will be porting their puzzle story-driven adventure game LOVE to Nintendo Switch “soon”.
Published by Noodlecake, and developed by FaceIT, the previous Mobile/Steam game Summer Catchers will be hitting the Nintendo Switch tomorrow (February 11th)
Reptoid Games (@reptoidgames), the developer behind 2018’s Fossil Hunters, announced their next game Fire Tonight, a narrative puzzle game “about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire”.
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.
The new studio founded by ex-BioWare devs Humanoid Origin is looking to fill multiple roles.
Bret and I discuss whether Anthem is a few years too late, Bret gives his feelings on VR games, and we chat recent releases and the games we’ve been playing.
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Toronto-based Mighty Yell Studios has released its first virtual reality game as a studio: Knight in the Attic for Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest.
Montreal-based Trebuchet has announced their next game will be coming to PlayStation VR, and thankfully we won’t have to wait long. Winds & Leaves is set to release July 27th and can check out further details and the trailer here.
Toronto-based Shaftesbury Lucid Inc. (@ShaftesburyTV) who’ve previously worked on TV shows such as Murdoch Mysteries, Frankie Drake and Carmilla are releasing their first VR game WREST (@wrestvr) next week.
Spoilercast! We got a new show for CanadianGameDevs.com where we'll play a game and just discuss it on end. It'll be sort of a review/spoilercast type of show.
First up is Guacamelee! 2 from DrinkBox Studios. This sequel to the 2013 indie hit dropped on PS4 and Steam last week so Bret, and I were joined by developer from the first game turned fan Jason Canam to discuss everything we liked (a lot of things) and disliked (not that many things) about DrinkBox's new game.
Toronto-based Drinkbox Studios (@DrinkboxStudios) has announced DLC for their action-RPG Nobody Saves the World entitled The Frozen Hearth.
One of our favourite studios DrinkBox Studios released their RPG Nobody Saves the World on Xbox and PC earlier this year, and that exclusivity didn’t last long as they have now announced the game is heading to Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation later this month.
Toronto-based DrinkBox Studios have announced a release date for their upcoming action RPG, Nobody Saves the World and we won’t have to wait very long. The game will release on Steam, and Xbox One/Series X/S on January 18th. It will also be part of Xbox Gamepass.
Toronto-based Drinkbox Studios have announced their next game Nobody Saves the World during the ID@Xbox event last week.
Guacamelee! 1 and 2 Toronto-based developer Drinkbox Studios has revealed we’ll know about their next secret project this Friday during ID Xbox Gaming Showcase. All we really know about this game is that they’ve been teasing it with eyes.
Solo indie dev expert and longtime friend-of-the-site Devon Wiersma joins us to talk their latest release Centauri Dark, working across AAA, mid-sized and solo indie dev and how to fix this goshdarn industry.