Ep 179 - Mobile Games & BioWare Drops Multiplayer

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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. & Lead UE4 VR Game Developers

Furcula - Lead Unity Developer (Toronto, ON - Remote)

Popreach - Lead Game Programmer, Senior Game Designer, User Acquisition Manager, and Product Manager (Vancouver, BC)

Sago Mini - Data Engineer, Senior Unity Game Developer, Senior Unity Developer - Lead, Unity Game Developer, Unity Technical Artist (Internship), and Unity Game Developer (Internship) (Toronto, ON)

Sleeping Giant Interactive - Character Animator - Rigger (Toronto, ON)

Stitch Media - Unity Game Developer (Toronto, ON)

Events (all times in EST):

Dirty Rectangles (Wed Mar 10 @ 8 PM)

March Speaker Social (Sat Mar 13 @ 5:00 PM)

XP Game Dev Summit (April 8)

Red Bull Campus Clutch - Valorant Post-Secondary Tournament by Red Bull Canada (Sat, April 24, 2021, @ 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM)

News:

Mighty Fight Federation Out Now On Steam, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5

Sokodice Comes to Switch March 12

Unbearable Studios Releases Procrasticube on Google Play

Toronto-based Sticky Brain Studios Releases Kimon‪o‬ on iOS

Just Like Everyone Else, BioWare Is Done With Anthem

Electronic Arts Removes Multiplayer Mode From Dragon Age Game in Big Pivot

Wishlist This:

Steel Assault (@SteelAssault) by Zenovia in NYC and published by Tribute Games Inc. in Montréal, QC. Releasing TBD, Wishlist on Steam. “Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.”

Fractured Veil with devs in Montréal, QC. Releasing TBD, Wishlist on Steam. “Fractured Veil is a multiplayer survival game set on Maui 100 years from now after a global apocalypse wipes out civilization.”

Run Prop, Run! by PlayTogether Studio (@clemgamedev) in Montréal, QC. Releasing 2021, Wishlist on Steam. “Run Prop, Run! is an 8-player prop hunt hide & seek game with platforming, skills, and crazy game rules! Join the hunters’ army to seek props, or disguise as random objects to deceive the others!”

Credits:

Intro Music by @jakebutineau

Outro Music by @Composingdan