Give'r Gaming

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Canadian video games, gamers, and gaming news!

Give'r Gaming serves as a community for all of the above, highlighting Canadian game devs, development studios, and, of course, games!

Know of any great Canadian games for people to try out? Please feel free to share them here to help support developers and the incredible works they put out!

Community Rules:

  1. Lemmy.ca instance rules and guidelines are to be followed at all times.
  2. All games, game developers, and gaming personalities shared must be Canadian. This community's purpose is to help bolster and bring visibility to the Canadian gaming sphere.
  3. NSFW games are allowed. However, posts sharing these games MUST be tagged as NSFW with posts being removed if this is not done.
  4. Games promoting Web3 technologies such as NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and other such things will be removed and greeted with a permanent ban from the community.
  5. Games promoting online gambling (think online casinos) will also be removed and greeted with bans.

These rules will likely be worked on as the community here grows.

Banner image is complimentary of Mack Male on Flickr, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.0 license.

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Give'r Gaming - A New Lemmy Community for the Canadian Gaming Sphere! (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 days ago by BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca to c/givergaming@lemmy.ca
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Today I decided to go through with acting on a thought that's been sitting on my mind for about a week now:

"What if there was a community centred specifically around Canadian video games and the Canadian video game sphere?"

Give'r Gaming serves just that purpose. This community is one I hope to work on in fostering and bringing light to Canadian talents in the video game sphere. Whether it be a larger game development studio based here in Canada such as Behaviour Interactive or BioWare (unfortunately owned by EA, an American company), or smaller indie operations with cult classics such as Maddy Makes Games and their iconic game Celeste, all are welcomed in this community!

As this community grows, hopefully the list of resources available will do the same. Planned features for this community are perhaps Megathreads on Canadian developers, Canadian gaming news publishers, and perhaps even public game nights once the community grows large enough!

In any case, I hope to see y'all there! Cheers!

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Open Discussion: What makes a game or studio Canadian? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 17 hours ago by GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca to c/givergaming@lemmy.ca
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As title. How do we define what a Canadian game is?

My gut says that the physical studio (if there is one) should be located within Canada. But there are a lot of situations where this can get muddied.

Example being: Rimworld.

Founded & owned by Canadian Tynan Sylvester, but according to Ludeon Studios' (Tynan's gamedev studio) website, they're based in New York. According to Tynan's LinkedIn, he works from Ottawa, however.

Does this count as a Canadian game studio, or a Canadian game? Or just a studio that happens to be owned by a Canadian? Or started Canadian, and quickly grew -- but in the US. I don't think a studio being owned by a Canadian inherently makes it Canadian. By that logic, twitter is a Canadian company because Musk hold Canadian citizenship.

I've emailed the Rimworld support address seeking more info, but I think its a worthwhile discussion to have early on in this community so we can come to some kind of consensus on what exactly is a Canadian game.

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Ultimate Chicken Horse - A game by Montreal-based developer Clever Endeavour Studios! (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca to c/givergaming@lemmy.ca
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Ultimate Chicken Horse is an amazing party game to play with friends! Heavily popular with Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam, Ultimate Chicken Horse has been entertaining gamers since it's release in 2016.

The point of the game is simple... or is it? Players need to compete with one another to get from Point A to Point B without dying. However, the path to Point B is created by you, the players! Try and craft a secret path to success for yourself, or cause chaos amongst the group by making things seemingly impossible for everyone? You decide!

The game has been so popular that Clever Endevour is planning to release a new title as a sequel in the near future titled Ultimate Sheep Raccoon slated to come out this year, so keep an eye out!

Invested in boycotting American platforms and don't want to buy the game on Steam? Vote at the link below to bring the game to GOG, a Polish-owned platform that specialises in selling DRM-free games!

https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/ultimate-chicken-horse-2016

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Canadian Game Developers Megathread (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca to c/givergaming@lemmy.ca
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This megathread serves to showcase a list of Canadian game developers. This list will grow over time, and will be better organized as time goes on:

Independent Canadian Game Developers (will organise this by city tonight - April 22nd):

Individual Canadian Game Developers:

Game Studios based in both Canada and the U.S.:

  • Other Ocean - Partially based in Emeryville, California

Canadian Game Developers Owned by American Companies:

Canadian Game Developers Owned by Other Foreign Companies:

Game Developers with Offices in Canada:

Inactive Canadian Game Developers:

Defunct Canadian Game Developers:

  • Alpha Dog Games - Shuttered 2024, Subsidiary of Zenimax Media and Xbox Game Studios
  • Pseudo Interactive - Shuttered 2008, revived briefly in 2021
  • Stirling Games - site down, site for only developed game down, socials inactive since 2021
  • Tiny Titan Studios - Website down, socials inactive since 2021, assuming defunct
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Check out Russian Subway Dogs by Spooky Squid Games! (spookysquid.itch.io)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca to c/givergaming@lemmy.ca
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Spooky Squid Games is a Canadian indie game developer based out of Toronto! Russian Subway Dogs is a fun 2D game where players play as a selection of dogs and cats scavenging for food from passengers of the Moscow Metro, causing absolute chaos in the process!

The game is loads of fun, has an incredible soundtrack, and has received plenty of good reception. Try picking it up when you can!

Check out Spooky Squid Games at their website here!