CanadianGameDevs.com Podcast
346 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe discuss video games news and indie games created in Canada!
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Ep 194 - Another Pale, Male Studio
August 18, 2021 12:25 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBPlease Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Overview: There is an an all-new same old pale french male studio which we discuss. Do people still care about Marvel's Avengers? A new "wishlist this game" from Winnipeg appealing to Stephan's Irish roots, and we discuss our three favourite games of all time. Jobs: Bellwood Studios Senior Game Developer (Unity Engine) Joydrop is looking for Unreal and Unity Developers Jean Leggett will be looking for...
Ep 193 - August is Canadian Indie Month
August 05, 2021 00:59 - 60.2 MBOverview: Activision-Blizzard has studios across Canada and in light of mountains of abuse, rape, assault, and other terrible allegations at the company we've decided to stop our coverage of their studios until further notice. In lighter news, Steve talks Russian Subway Dogs on Vita and his first few hours with Tribes of Midgard- and we totally forget EA Motive announced a Dead Space reboot! Jobs: Jean Leggett will be looking for a part-time producer in the next 1-3 months, follow for up...
Ep 192 - Steam Deck Does it for Us
July 22, 2021 06:48 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBPlease Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Overview: This week we discuss the Switch Pro that didn't come from Nintendo and its implications for Steve's stay-at-home dad gaming life- as well as why Stephan can't wait to play itchio games on the toilet. We also dig into all the Canadian news, releases and of course a fresh new trio of Canadian games to add to your wishlist! Jobs: Leek (Toronto)Senior Unity Developer Jean Leggett Will Be Looking...
Ep 191 - Game Slice 2021 HYPE (feat. Eric Beer)
July 14, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBPlease Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society The Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration Find our Guest and Patron Eric at: Portfolio: https://thebotbook.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/botbook/ Overview: This week we're joined by our patron and friend-of-the-site Eric Beer! He tells us about the exciting upcoming online gamedev event Game Slice, as well as joins us for the usual discussion of news, releases, jobs...
Ep 190 - Toxic Studios Fail to Change
July 01, 2021 17:08 - 76.9 MBPlease Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Buy the Queer Games Bundle 2021 Buy the Bundle for At-risk and Houseless Youth Overview: Recent reports from credible news outlets show us nothing much of substance has changed at much-maligned development studios like Ubisoft and Scavengers Studio. Steve and Stephan discuss these reports as well as some leftover news stories from E3, new game releases and updates as well as a slew of Canadian demo imp...
Ep 189 - E3 2021 Bonanza Pod
June 15, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBWe mainly go over all the games, so not much here for links! We will be back with a normal episode next week with events, jobs and wishlist this but for now check out last week’s post for links: https://canadiangamedevs.com/podcast/ep-188-eh3-predictions
Ep 188 - E(h)3 Predictions
June 09, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBPlease Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Buy the itch.io Palestine Relief Bundle Buy the Queer Games Bundle 2021 Buy the Bundle for At-risk and Houseless Youth Overview: We break down all the E3 streams coming up we won't be able to watch so we'll make Stephan watch them afterwards to look for Canadian games. Then we introduce a new segment, new releases, and do all the usual paperwork, news, announcements and wishlists! Jobs: A-Game Studi...
Ep 187 - Chivalry 2 Impressions & Backbone Hype
June 02, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBSupport 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: We played the Open Beta for upcoming Toronto-based Torn Banner Studios' Chivalry 2, a medieval fighting game. We talk about PlayStation's first Canadian PS5 PS+ game (something only Steve and I really care about), Bac...
Ep 186 - Spray-painting & Card Battling
May 26, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBSupport 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 twi...
Ep 185 - Edmonton Games Galore
May 12, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBSupport 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: The first-ever Edmonton Direct aired this past week showing off oodles of Edmonton-developed games! We take a look at the list, the Ubisoft Indie Series finalists, Sledgehammer's new Toronto studio & much more. Jobs...
Ep 184 - Bring on the Vibes (Reveal)
April 28, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 53.6 MBSupport 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: Vancouver-based Extremely OK Games, makers of Towerfall Ascension and Celeste, have revealed the vibes for their next project. We discuss the merits of revealing a games "vibes" and take an unexpected deep dive into ...
Ep 183 - Pikmin Cults & So Many Nindies
April 21, 2021 11:41 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBSupport 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: Nindies from Canada are coming to Switch! FEZ, art of rally, ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights and the eagerly anticipated TMNT: Shredder's Revenge are all flipping the Switch presently. Some other Canadian indies...
Ep 182 - The Other Canadian Game Awards
April 14, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBSupport 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 Stephan's audio crapped out at 18 minutes and we didn't notice, so we switch to the Skype backup (sorry). We go over all the results of the other Canadian Game Awards, as well as big updates to Canadian AA...
Ep 181 - Drinkbox is Back, Baby!
April 07, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBSupport 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: Circumstances prevented us from getting the episode up on time so we pushed it back a week! We dive into all the Canadian indies at ID@Xbox's Indie Game Showcase, most notably Drinkbox Studio's hotly anticipated nex...
Ep 180 - Tribute's TMNT Reveal
March 17, 2021 12:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBOverview: An exciting new classic beat-em-up from Tribute Games has our Discord in a tizzy, Blood Roots, Mighty Fight Federation, and Star Renegades make the jump to PS4 and more indie updates! In addition to oodles of new jobs, events, and more- let us know what you think <3 Jobs: Sago Mini (Toronto)Data EngineerSenior Unity Game DeveloperSenior Unity Developer - LeadUnity Game DeveloperTalent Acquisition ManagerPlay Designer - Mobile Kids GameUnity Game Developer - Internship (Paid)Unit...
Ep 179 - Mobile Games & BioWare Drops Multiplayer
March 10, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBSupport 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! 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 -...
Ep 178 - Killing Demon Nazis
February 24, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBSupport 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! - Referenced Sea of Thieves meme Overview: On this week's episode we discuss loads of open game dev jobs across Canada, some exciting upcoming digital Canadian game dev events as well as the week's news of ports, release dates and more! Jobs: - Popreach - Lead Game Programmer, Senior Game Designer, Use...
Ep 177 - Steve Quits His Job
February 17, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBSupport 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! Overview: Steve quit his job! We also talk Warframe's 8 year anniversary, big update to A Fold Apart, another Canadian studio acquisition and more! Jobs: - Sago Mini - Data Engineer, Unity Game Developer, and Talent Acquisition Manager (Toronto, ON) - Popreach - Lead Game Programmer, Senior Game Designe...
Episode 176 - The M(ass) Effect Thing
February 10, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBSupport 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! Overview: Couple Canadian games leaving Early Access soon, Quantic Dream becomes the latest French studio to open a studio in Québec and Silly Gamers™ freak out over Mass Effect Legendary Edition's changes. Jobs: - Sago Mini - Data Engineer, Unity Game Developer, and Talent Acquisition Manager (Toronto, ...
Episode 175 - The Scavengers Allegations
February 03, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBSupport 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! Overview: After much excitement over the reveal of Season, we were incredibly disappointed to learn about serious sexual assault and abuse allegedly took place over the past several years at the Montréal studio. Steve and I believe the allegations and have received several personal messages from other devs...
Episode 174 - Tencent Acquires Yet Another Canadian Studio
January 27, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBSupport 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! Overview: After acquiring the Warframe dev's parent company in December, Tencent acquired yet another Canadian studio this week in Vancouver-based indie powerhouse Klei Entertainment, creators of beloved games like Don't Starve and Mark of the Ninja. Will we still be able to type "Free Hong Kong" in the ch...
Episode 173 - The IPs Strike Back
January 20, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBSupport 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! Stephan’s Grindstone AMA Question: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/kxduup/were_capy_and_we_made_grindstone_ama/gj9qlm1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Website: https://canadiangamedevs.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/canadiangamedevs Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cana...
Episode 172 - GOTY 2020 Winners Revealed!
January 11, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBTable of Contents: Jobs: 3:40 - News: 4:33 - Wishlist This: 11:16 - GOTY 2020 Winners Revealed: 25:38 - Events: 1:13:30 - What We've Been Playing: 1:14:30 Website: https://canadiangamedevs.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/canadiangamedevs Twitter: https://twitter.com/CanadaGameDevs Overview: Here it is! With thousands of votes cast, the results are in and we can confirm the winners of our End of Year polls. We had three categories this year: 1. Canadian Game of the Year; 2. Most An...
Episode 171 - End of the Year Round Up
December 30, 2020 13:00 - 1 hourANOTHER PLUG FOR INDIGENOUS SUPPORTS! 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! Overview: In our last episode of 2020, we go over the few news stories of Christmas week including Panzer Paladin's physical release, intriguing indie game Nuts coming to Apple Arcade and Tencent taking ownership of Warframe developer Digital Extremes. We also discuss our End of Year Polls and highlight tons of the...
Episode 170 - Some Real Indie Darlings
December 23, 2020 20:14 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBANOTHER PLUG FOR INDIGENOUS SUPPORTS! 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! Overview: This week we talk about the new Canadian game trailers and content shown off in the Nintendo Indies World and the Wholesome Snack Direct. We take a look at the first (?) Canadian-focused Humble Bundle, a new indie vinyl for charity featuring some Canadian artists and another successful Canadian Kickstarte...
Episode 169 (nice) - 'Season' Wows at The Game Awards
December 17, 2020 23:54 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBANOTHER PLUG FOR INDIGENOUS SUPPORTS! 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! Overview: With The Game Awards this past week several Canadian studios showed off new trailers and revealed games, and while none took home any awards it was still an exciting night of announcements with some awards shown off on the side. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Pat...
Episode 168 - What's Happening at Bioware?
December 09, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBANOTHER PLUG FOR INDIGENOUS SUPPORTS! 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! Overview: Major resignations at Edmonton-based RPG powerhouse Bioware have us questioning the future of the studio that's been floundering since Dragon Age Inquisition's award-winning reception in 2014. We also talk Rogue Souls' SEO-optimized rebrand, Dauntless' major update and more! Remember to subscribe to the ...
Interview with Jean Leggett
December 04, 2020 14:00 - 41.1 MBIn this interview, we talk to Jean Leggett (@JeanLeggett) CEO & cofounder of 1 More Story Games, Host Games, Grit, & Gratitude: Real Talk, Keynote Speaker, Biz/Career Coach & Educator. We talk about her path to making games, the fractured Canadian game development community, working with a NYT best-seller and much more.
Episode 167 - 'Tis the Season of Delays
December 02, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBANOTHER PLUG FOR INDIGENOUS SUPPORTS! 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! Overview: This week Steve and Stephan break down the self-owning new game studio whose diversity pledge is undercut by over a dozen white Frenchies, Stephan gets the joke behind Cuphead's new DLC way too late, Steve laments the Star Renegades PS4 delay and much more! Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes,...
Episode 166 - New Consoles, Baby!
November 18, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBANOTHER PLUG FOR INDIGENOUS SUPPORTS! 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! Overview: After taking a weekend off for our 24 (ish) hour Extra Life stream we're back with 2 weeks of news to cover! New Mass Effect announcements, GunPig flips the Switch, the game Stephan is working on got announced and much more! This week Steve and Stephan also got their new consoles and are loving life. Rem...
Episode 165 - A Tumultuous Few Weeks
November 05, 2020 16:14 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBANOTHER PLUG FOR INDIGENOUS SUPPORTS! 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! Overview: This week Stephan and Steve talk Darkest Dungeon II details, a new game from one of our community members, the incredibly horny Later Daters Part 2 and more. News, events, jobs and Discord discourse brought onto the show- enjoy! Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Pat...
Episode 164 - An Even Darker Dungeon
October 28, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBWhere to Donate to Support the Miꞌkmaq Fisheries: Fishing Fund for recovering the cost of stolen and damaged fishing gear. Send e-transfer to [email protected]. Fund to support the land defenders (put in a comment that it is a donation for the Mi'kmaq land defenders). Send e-transfer to [email protected]. Check out 'Night of the Indigenous Devs' UP NOW ON YOUTUBE! Overview: We've got loads of upcoming events, new jobs from coast to coast, loads of exciting Canadian gaming new...
Episode 163 - More Small Games
October 21, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBWhere to Donate to Support the Miꞌkmaq Fisheries: Fishing Fund for recovering the cost of stolen and damaged fishing gear. Send e-transfer to: [email protected] Fund to support the land defenders (put in a comment that it is a donation for the Mi'kmaq land defenders). Send e-transfer to: [email protected] Table of Contents: Events: 05:22 Jobs: 07:51 News: 13:52 Wishlist this: 43:40 Discord Discussion: 55:32 What we’ve been playing: 01:10:02 Overview: On this week's sh...
Episode 162 - Sega is 60?!
October 15, 2020 00:58 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBTable of Contents: Events: 7:21 - Jobs: 8:25 - News: 10:37 - Wishlist this: 38:05 - Discord Discussion: 47:31 - What We’ve Been Playing: 1:11:02 Overview: Back on our weekly grind to deliver all the upcoming Canadian gaming events, jobs, news and analysis straight into your earholes. Steve and I also explain our decision to blackout Ubisoft coverage, why we aren't getting Cyberpunk and how is Sega 60 years old?! Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patr...
Episode 161 - The Prodigal Steve
October 07, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBTable of Contents: Events: 4:00 Jobs: 10:31 News: 11:56 Wishlist this: 46:08 Discord Discussion: 57:30 What We’ve Been Playing: 01:10:28 Overview: Steve returns from a week off to catch up on all the news, events and games to wishlist he could hope for! With hot new Roguelites like Dreamscaper and Toxicant getting updates as well as a massive Canadian indie that somehow went under our radar, there's lots to discuss on this week's show! Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes,...
Episode 160 - Mr. Rivers Goes to Nintendo
September 23, 2020 23:41 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBOverview: On this week's show, Stephan and Steve breakdown the big news from Sony's PlayStation 5 price and date reveal stream! We also discuss the Canadian Game Award's tough week with imposter accounts and rescinded nominations, 2 classic Benjamin Rivers' joints coming to Nintendo Switch and much more. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events (02:23): We’re going to start with game dev events happening soon aroun...
Episode 159 - Lucifer, Doug and Lesbian Road Trips
September 16, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBOverview: In addition to all the latest gaming events, jobs and news we discuss the unbelievable Xbox Series S/X prices and why Steve is so done with mainstream sports games. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events: Canada Games Online 2020 (September 17 - 18) Game Slice (September 16 from 5 - 9:30 PM EST) Game Dev Atlantic (September 18 from 8 AM - 8 PM EST) Game Devs of Color Expo (September 19) Game Dev Job...
Episode 158 - The Best Steam Page We've Seen
September 09, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBWebsite: https://canadiangamedevs.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/canadiangamedevs Twitter: https://twitter.com/CanadaGameDevs Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events: - Damage Labs Info Session (September 10 @ 6 PM EST) - Canada Games Online 2020 (September 9 - 10 & September 17 - 18) - Game Slice - (Sept 16 5-9:30 - Sneak preview and gather feedback for unreleased games) - Game Dev Atlantic (September...
Episode 157 - Avengers' Absurd Economy
September 02, 2020 11:00 - 78.3 MBOn this week's show, we introduce a new segment: Discord Discussions. We pull out a conversation happening on our Discord and hash it out on the show! This week we break down Eidos-Montréal's Avengers game and its multiple currencies and battle passes. We also talk about the announcements from this past week's Wholesome Direct and Gamescom ONL stream. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events: Game Breakfast Audio Cl...
Episode 156 - Spinch-boy and Bat-girl
August 26, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBOverview: This week we breakdown loads of news coming out of the Canadian gaming scene and highlight some upcoming Canadian-developed games to add to your wishlist! Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events: - August Game Writers Circle + Social [Online] (August 27 @ 6:30 PM EST) - Canada Games Online 2020 (September 9 - 10 & September 17 - 18) - Game Dev Atlantic (September 18 from 8 AM - 8 PM EST) - Game Devs o...
Episode 155 - Canadian Nindies Galore
August 19, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour - 58 MBOverview: On this week's episode, the Steve's discuss all the Canadian games showcased in Nintendo's Nindies Direct including some surprise 'Available Now!' moments. We congratulate some awesome developers for finally flipping the Switch, look at Canuck Play's awesome free next-gen upgrade for Maximum Football 2020 as well as a few games leaving and entering Steam Early Access. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Even...
Episode 154 - Rogues and Beats
August 12, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBOverview: On this week's show, the Steve's discuss all the latest Canadian gaming events, news, jobs and more! We dive into some upcoming Canadian games that you can add to your wishlist and talk about what we've been playing. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events: - This DMG Has Ghosts In It - Haunted Discord RPG Game (Saturday, August 22 @ 2:00 PM) - Women Game Jam Canada (Friday, August 21 @ 4:00 PM - Sunday...
Interview with Only By Midnight
August 07, 2020 14:00 - 27.3 MBIn 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.
Episode 153 - Why Assist Modes are Important (feat. Andrew Czarnietzki)
August 05, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBEvents: - August Speaker Social (Tuesday, August 4 @ 6 PM EST) - #TheBreakfastGameAudioClub meetup (Wednesday, August 5 @ 9 AM EST): https://discordapp.com/invite/8MXjszA - This DMG Has Ghosts In It - Haunted Discord RPG Game (Saturday, August 22 @ 2 PM) - Game Dev Atlantic (Friday, September 18 @ 8 AM - 8 PM EST) - Game Devs of Color Expo (Saturday, September 19) Jobs: - PixelNauts: https://canadiangamedevs.com/jobs/game-developer-jobs-pixelnauts-3d-animator-community-manager - Canu...
Episode 152 - Game Pass is too Good
July 29, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBRemember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events: - July Game Writers Circle + Social (July 30 @ 6:30 pm EST) - Game Dev Atlantic (September 18 from 8 am - 8 pm EST) - Game Devs of Color Expo (September 19) Game Dev Jobs: - PixelNauts (St. Catherines, ON): https://canadiangamedevs.com/jobs/game-developer-jobs-pixelnauts-3d-animator-community-manager - Canuck Play (Peterborough, ON): https://canadiangamedevs.com/jobs/gam...
Episode 151 - The Last Wii Game?
July 21, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 89 MBEvents: - IGDA Winnipeg “Games We Love” Livestream (July 23 @ 6 pm EST) - Games Writing Working Group (July 23 @ 6:30 pm EST) - July Game Writers Circle + Social (July 30 @ 6:30 pm EST) - Game Dev Atlantic (September 18 from 8 am - 8 pm EST) - Game Devs of Color Expo (September 19) News: - Shakedown: Hawaii Getting Physical Release - Rainbow Six Siege Collegiate League Announced - Rogue Legacy 2 Early Access Coming a Little Later - Eidos-Montréal's Marvel's Avengers Getting Multipl...
Episode 150 - Ubisoft's 'This Is Fine' Press Conference
July 15, 2020 21:19 - 1 hour - 90.6 MBSo we talk about how it feels to try and cover a Ubisoft Press Conference while the company continues to shit itself in public. We also discuss Emergent Fates out now on iOS, 3720 to 1 also out on mobile as well as Toxicant entering Steam Early Access later this month and Curved Space entering Beta on Steam. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events: - IGDA Winnipeg “Games We Love” Livestream (July 23 @ 6 pm EST) -...
Episode 149 - The Inevitable Game Price Hike
July 08, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBOverview: This week Steve and Stephan discuss the next-gen price hike we learned about this past week, specifically regarding NBA 2K21's $10 higher price tag on PS5 and Xbox Series X. We also discuss Frolic Lab's flipping the Switch (snap) on Dune Sea, Ubisoft trying to announce a new game amidst ongoing sexual assault and harassment allegations against many of their employees and Terrorarium leaving Early Access at the end of the month. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Goog...
Episode 148 - A Reckoning at Ubisoft
July 01, 2020 14:47 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBThis week we try and work through the deluge of sexual assault, abuse and rape allegations levied against so many Ubisoft developers this past week at several of their Canadian studios, against many of their high-profile employees. It's a tough and important conversation. We also discuss mobile JRPG Emergent Fates, Rogue Legacy 2's release date, Discord exclusives coming to Steam and more. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days ...
Episode 147 - An Actually Good Star Wars Game?
June 24, 2020 13:43 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBRemember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify. Patrons get the show 2 days early! Events: - Interactive Ontario Online Town Hall (June 22 at 1pm) - DigiBC Town Hall: COVID-19 Assistance for Indie IDM Studios (Mon, June 22, 2020 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PST) - Game Dev Atlantic (September 18 from 9:00am - 9:00pm) - Game Devs of Color Expo (September 19) News: - Grindstone Update Adds New Levels, Items and More - Motive Shows First Gameplay for Star Wars: Squadrons ...