Get into Hololabs' Mobile AR Game SkyHaven's Beta! | Get Floor Kids on everything | Checkout JonJon's Twitch channel! OVERVIEW: Over 5 years ago, Victoria, BC-based Hololabs (@hololabs) launched their indie rhythm dance game Floor Kids (@FloorKidsCrew) on Steam and Nintendo Switch. A collaboration between Hololabs and longtime creative partners Kid Koala (@kidkoala) and JonJon (@JonJonAnimation), Floor Kids represents the pure expressionism of a form like breakdancing translated to a videogame by a primary source in bboy JonJon animating as well as self-referencing the poses for the dance move ..read more

Get and Follow TUNIC | Checkout PowerUp Audio | Play some Sparse games LIGHT SPOILERS FOR TUNIC IN THE INTERVIEW! OVERVIEW: Primary Developer and Designer Andrew Shouldice (@dicey/Halifax, NS), Audio Director Kevin Regamey (@regameyk/Vancouver, BC) and Level Artist Eric Billingsley (@SparseGameDev/Ottawa, ON) join Stephan to discuss the award-winning isometric adventure game TUNIC on its 1-year anniversary. We hear advice on avoiding some of the nostalgia-focused design traps that can lead devs astray, how to capture a classic game’s feeling rather than just a classic art style or old-school m ..read more

PLUGS: Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs Follow us on our hot new tik tok @canadiangamedevs  Aaaaand we're posting news on instagram now!  OVERVIEW: Oodles of news from Canada's 2nd and 8th biggest cities (Montréal/Vancouver) and fresh impressions of Red Nexus Games' delightful Peggle roguelike hybrid Peglin- as well as our first Wishlist This segment of 2023 featuring a Toronto sandwich of games (sandwiching a game about not dying in the cold from a studio in Winnipeg lol). EVENTS: Online: DemoNights and the Games from Quebec Steam Sale DemoNigh ..read more

OVERVIEW: Stephan sits down with the Victoria, BC-based indie studio Hololabs (@hololabs) to talk about their currently-in-beta augmented reality (AR) project Sky Haven (@skyhavenapp) coming to mobile sometime soon. Sign up for the Sky Haven beta at the bottom of their website. We discuss the challenges of AR development, making a geography-based game interesting in Canada's massive surface area, keeping the experience consistent across countless mobile devices and more. Stay tuned next week for a 2nd interview with Hololabs and their collaborators JonJon and Kid Koala about their 2017 cult cl ..read more

See our 2022 Community Awards Poll winners! (btw that title means CanadianGameDevs' Game of the Year 2022 if you're not a gamer or if you're my mom <3) PLUGS: - Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord - Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW: The results are in! We go over the winners of our 2022 Community Awards Poll- a fine spread indeed. Then we cover a few news stories including an intriguing Kickstarter from a Winnipeg company to build the vendors from BioShock Infinite in real life- as well as a sexy physical copy of art of rally. Who's ready for another year of podcasts?! EVENTS ..read more

Vote in our 2022 Community Awards Poll! FULL EP 224 SHOW NOTES PLUGS: Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW: We go over all the nominees for our 2022 Community Awards Poll, with a few surprises and few familiar games- and also give our own votes. We talk 2023 news already with Sea of Stars new release window and video with one of the composers as well as the first DLC for 12AM Games' Dawn of Monsters coming soon. We then close out with some first impressions of Foolish Mortals' Kaiju Wars and a few other games we've been playing over the holidays. JOB ..read more

PLUGS: - FULL SHOW NOTES HERE - Nominate games in our Canadian Game Devs 2022 Community Award Polls  - Join the CanadianGameDevs' Discord - Follow us on Twitter @CanadaGameDevs OVERVIEW: We cover all the Canadian announcements and WORLD PREMIERES from The Game Awards 2K22 edition- and boy did Keighley deliver. We then wishlist some contentious DLC for The Long Dark, dish on what we think of Drinkbox's Nobody Saves the World upon completion and Steve's disappointing time with Callisto Protocol- and why he's playing Elden Ring instead (probably why it won GOTY... and the Clinton connection ..read more

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 Montreal, 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 impressions of Marvel Snap, Stephan's disbelief in Overwatch 1.2's sorry state and more cynicism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf's development. JOBS: Kelowna, BC: Sad Panda Studios - Game Developer - Unity/C# Programmer Toronto, ON: Garta ..read more

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 much more. Follow Kyle on Twitter @IceColdBlood1 and you can pickup Batty Zabella on itch.io on October 31st (for $6.66, no less ..read more

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 Quill Studios, the controversy Canadian voice actress Jennifer Hale stepped into regarding the Bayonetta 3 dispute and we wishlist some upcoming games. Then Stephan and Viktor talk about their studio, lessons learned on Explory S ..read more