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Canadian Game Developers Megathread (self.givergaming)
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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. Major game titles will be highlighted next to the studio names:

Independent Canadian Game Developers:

Edmonton:

Gatineau:

Halifax:

Hamilton:

Kitchener:

London:

Montreal:

Ottawa:

Quebec City:

Regina:

St. Catharines:

Saskatoon:

Toronto:

Vancouver:

Victoria:

Waterloo:

Multiple Locations in Canada:

Somewhere in Canada:

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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[–] JaceTheGamerDesigner 2 points 1 day ago

Some more notes

Cuphead - The main team is Toronto based, but all the coders were here in Ottawa. Some of which I went to school with. https://store.steampowered.com/app/268910/Cuphead/

Tunic - I believe they are all Canadian. At least one of the dev's is a local to Ottawa. https://tunicgame.com/

Spring Falls - By Eric. I remember seeing the early demo's of this at our local game dev event. https://www.springfallsgame.com/

Gataela - By Paige who is really nice. She helps curate the first link I sent. https://www.gataela.com/

Spectrum Break - A game I released solo before joining Skypyre. https://spectrumbreak.com/

We've had a few phone app game companies spring up around Ottawa but I honestly have no idea if they survived the pandemic. I haven't seen Magmic in a long time and I recall them not doing too well.

I'm also pretty sure Balatro is Canadian.

I believe the Momodora series is based in Toronto, as is the developer who made Mount Your Friends but you would have to verifiy both.

Another big name are the developers are Warframe. They are based here in Canada.

King of the Hat was by an indie team from somewhere in Ontario. It's too bad I haven't had the chance to see them at an event in a while. I hope they're doing well. https://kingofthehat.com/