Last night, i felt very honoured to be included in a panel discussion at the October IGDA Toronto Chapter meeting. The meeting saw a really great turn-out – a standing room only crowd! The topic was “Running an Ontario Game Studio: From Start-Up to Sustainability”. (Why “Ontario”, specifically? There was some discussion about tax incentives, [...] Keep Reading

Last week, we unveiled the background artwork for Interrupting Cow Trivia, our fun online trivia game that you can play live with your friends. This was the first time we’d revealed the game’s retro 50′s diner theme. This week, we’d like to show you another shot of the game. This is the background for the [...] Keep Reading

Zinc Roe is a Toronto-based interactive studio that’s well-known here in Canada, but maybe not to the rest of the world. Their claim to fame, The Zimmer Twins, was a television show that kids could edit together online, with a number of pre-fab animations and settings. The Zinc Roe team then took some submissions, voiced [...] Keep Reading

Quick OMGPOPQUIZZZ!!! You’re creating a registration form, and you’d like to know if your registrant has a PENIS or a VAGINA. Do you ask for the registrant’s GENDER, or do you ask for his or her SEX? Choose wisely. The correct answer is “SEX”. It annoys me to no end to see “GENDER” on a [...] Keep Reading

For at least a decade, all my game development endeavors had one thing in common: none of them were ever finished. With these words, indie game developer Jacob A. Stevens established himself as my soulmate, and endeared himself to my heart forever. From this point forward, i will be there to peer into his kitchen [...] Keep Reading