i’m speaking on a panel Sunday at 12:30 at the Toronto Fan Expo, on the topic of video game development in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). i stopped by today to pick up my badge and to get the lay of the land. There were plenty of people in costumes, and that’s fine. But you [...] Keep Reading

The Vortex Game Conference & Competition, an (increasingly) annual event, has launched its promotional campaign. i’ve been an entrant in the event twice now, and a very vocal critic of it for a number of years. One of my colleagues said it best: “You criticize because you care, Ryan.” And i do! i want Toronto [...] Keep Reading

Last Friday, i took a tour of the Bell Lightbox with a few other folks from the indie games scene. The Lightbox is a building in downtown Toronto where the industry screenings of the Toronto International Film Festival will be held. Since the place is still under construction, we donned our orange hardhats and startlingly [...] Keep Reading

TOJam, this city’s premiere game industry event, has come and gone. As you may well know, the jam is a weekend-long expo where game developers young and old (but mostly young), male and female (but mostly male), from all walks of life (but mostly white) descend on an ever-changing venue with one purpose and one [...] Keep Reading

If you’ve read any of my other posts about the province of Ontario backing up the money truck, you know the score: the provincial government doles out a bunch of cash every year to the Ministry of Culture, who disperses it through an organization called the OMDC (Ostentatious Mixers of Daquiri-like Cocktails). The OMDC doesn’t [...] Keep Reading