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 by @CoinsElectro (Toronto, ON) 09:50 - News! 34:15 - theme from A Knight in the Attic by Neil Quillen 34:40 - Dad Deck Update 36:16 - Wishlist This 44:40 - 'Soba' from Highlighters by @tor ..read more

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 follow Kevin on LinkedIn?! (lolol ..read more

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, QC. Releasing TBD, Wishlist on Steam; ctrl.alt.DEAL by @OnlyByMidnight in Edmonton, AB. Releasing TBD, Wishlist on Steam - (Listen to our 2020 interview with the team); Engineered To Purpose by Confi ..read more

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 GAME DEV EVENTS CANADIAN GAMING NEWS: Toronto, ON: friend-of-the-site indie dev Devon Taking Beta Sing-ups for Upcoming FPS (closes Feb 16!) Toronto, ON: DrinkBox Gives First Teaser of Future Project ..read more

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, ON) & @StephenLCrane (Owen Sound, ON) PRODUCED BY: Stephan "f*#king Unionize" Reilly PODCAST ART BY: @Poltergust234! (Ko-fi - Alberta) SOCIALS: Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord! | Formerly Twitte ..read more

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 Awards polls right here <3 <- FULL SHOW NOTES HERE! CANADIAN GAME DEV JOBS | CANADIAN GAME DEV EVENTS  WISHLIST THIS: 1. Elemental Survivors by @SamobeeGames in BC, Canada. In Early Access till ..read more

Nominate your favourite Canadian games in our '23 Community Awards polls right here! Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord | Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs | Follow us on our hot new TikTok @canadiangamedevs | We also share to Instagram! 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 a week to nominate and another week to vote on the top nominees. Nominate you ..read more

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) 1:05:05 - The Outlast Trials menu theme by @TheRedBarrels (Montréal, QC) 1:55:28 - Outro Music by @Composingdan (Toronto, ON) HOSTED BY: @StephanReilly (Halifax, NS) & @StephenLCrane (Owen Sound, ON) PRO ..read more

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 thoughts (so far) on Canadian indies Hill Agency:PURITYdecay, Fire Station and Super Animal Royale then Stephan breaks down his current GOTY DREDGE. SEE UPCOMING CANADIAN GAMING EVENTS! CANADIAN GAMING NEWS ..read more

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 Agency: PURITYdecay for Steam and itch.io (but buy it on itch.io so they get more money). MUSIC USED: All from the Hill Agency: PURITYdecay Original Soundtrack: 00:00 - 'Akâmaskiy Blues' by Colin R. Lloyd (f ..read more