Ep 186 - Spray-painting & Card Battling

Support Indigenous movements across this land: Land Back Lane in Ontario, Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia & Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. Watch Night of the Indigenous Devs up now on YouTube! Watch our interview from last year with Meagan Byrne from Achimostawinan Games.

Overview:

This week Steve and Stephan discuss our dear friend and patron Devon Wiersma's newly released Bombing!!: A Graffiti Sandbox, as well as an interesting new Kickstarter from an Ottawa studio of a card battler with a twist. We also discuss new releases, new games to wishlist and more!

Jobs:

A-Game Studios (Remote)Unity Generalist

Bad Jump Games (Pickering)3D Unity Developer

Clever Endeavour Games (Montréal)Studio Assistant/QA

Insert Coin Accounting (Toronto & Montréal, Remote)Auditor and Tax Supervisor (Montréal/Remote)Auditor and Tax Supervisor (Toronto/Remote)

Mikutech/Joydrop (London, Remote)Unreal Engine ProgrammerUnity ProgrammerIntermediate Full Stack DeveloperSenior Full Stack DeveloperLead Full Stack Developer

Snowed In Studios (Ottawa)Full Stack ProgrammerRendering ProgrammerSenior Generalist Programmer

Sheridan College (Oakville/Remote)Professor, Game Design (Part-Time)

Events (all times in EST):

VRTO (Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 11:00 AM – Tue, Jun 8, 2021, 8:00 PM ADT)

TennoCon 2021 (July 17, 2021)

Gamedev Atlantic (October 22, 2021)

News:

Later Daters is coming to Xbox One and X Series Next Month

Very Okay Vinyl Reveals First Game Vinyl, More on the Way

Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance is Coming to Xbox Game Pass on Day One

Triversal is coming to Steam this July

My Singing Monsters Coming to Consoles

Chivalry 2 has Gone Gold

Pok Pok is a New Toronto Studio with a New Playtime App

Real Time Card Battler 'Haste' Kickstarter Launched

Rocket Rumble Open Beta Begins May 28

Wishlist This:

Descent Vector: Space Runner by Heavy Pepper Inc. (@HeavyPepper) in Hamilton, ON. Releasing Summer 2021, Wishlist now on Steam. “Race your space pod through a procedurally generated gauntlet of space stations, asteroids, and debris in this single-player sci-fi endless runner. Test your limits, experience wild crashes, improve your distance, visit unique solar systems and unlock new space pods to pilot.”

The Tower of Wowers by NecroCatic Games (@necrocatic) in British Columbia. Releasing 31 May, 202, Wishlist now on Steam. “Battle your way up 60+ floors of hand-drawn enemies in this satirical RPG!”

Explory Story partly developed by and wholly published by Blue Pin Studio (@BluePinStudio1) in Toronto, ON. Releasing October 2021, Wishlist now on Steam. “Play as a world famous detective who is stuck inside one of his own works! Be careful and watch your step. The words on the page can come to life.”