Ep 179 - Mobile Games & BioWare Drops Multiplayer

CanadianGameDevs.com Podcast

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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 - Lead Game Programmer, Senior Game Designer, User Acquisition Manager, and Product Manager (Vancouver, BC)

Sago Mini - Data Engineer, Senior Unity Game Developer, Senior Unity Developer - Lead, Unity Game Developer, Unity Technical Artist (Internship), and Unity Game Developer (Internship) (Toronto, ON)

Sleeping Giant Interactive - Character Animator - Rigger (Toronto, ON)

Stitch Media - Unity Game Developer (Toronto, ON)

Events (all times in EST):

Dirty Rectangles (Wed Mar 10 @ 8 PM)

March Speaker Social (Sat Mar 13 @ 5:00 PM)

XP Game Dev Summit (April 8)

Red Bull Campus Clutch - Valorant Post-Secondary Tournament by Red Bull Canada (Sat, April 24, 2021, @ 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM)

News:

Mighty Fight Federation Out Now On Steam, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5

Sokodice Comes to Switch March 12

Unbearable Studios Releases Procrasticube on Google Play

Toronto-based Sticky Brain Studios Releases Kimono on iOS

Just Like Everyone Else, BioWare Is Done With Anthem

Electronic Arts Removes Multiplayer Mode From Dragon Age Game in Big Pivot

Wishlist This:

Steel Assault (@SteelAssault) by Zenovia in NYC and published by Tribute Games Inc. in Montréal, QC. Releasing TBD, Wishlist on Steam. “Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.”

Fractured Veil with devs in Montréal, QC. Releasing TBD, Wishlist on Steam. “Fractured Veil is a multiplayer survival game set on Maui 100 years from now after a global apocalypse wipes out civilization.”

Run Prop, Run! by PlayTogether Studio (@clemgamedev) in Montréal, QC. Releasing 2021, Wishlist on Steam. “Run Prop, Run! is an 8-player prop hunt hide & seek game with platforming, skills, and crazy game rules! Join the hunters’ army to seek props, or disguise as random objects to deceive the others!”

Credits:

Intro Music by @jakebutineau

Outro Music by @Composingdan