Now Departing Retro City

By Eli Cymet

Brian Provinciano is not built like a stereotypical video game developer.

On paper, he would seem to check all the boxes: bespectacled, clad most often in a pair of blue jeans and a loose-fitting t-shirt, and rarely seen…

Eye of the Beholder

“The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.”
- H.P. Lovecraft

By Eli Cymet

My name is Bray, and for what seemed like time unending, I was lost. Adrift. Searching.

Wandering Aloud

By Eli Cymet

Cabazon, California isn’t even a city. Not technically speaking. It’s a “census-designated place” occupying four square miles along the state’s sprawling I-10 Highway, on the way to and from much better things. It’s a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of non-town at…

Blind Gamer

If you were to meet me in real life, you’d no doubt see my bespectacled face and have a hard time picturing it any other way. With the exception of sleeping and bathing, I’m never without my glasses. When people ask me about my vision, I make crudely hyperbolic statements like “I’m totally blind without…

The Flight of Art

By Eli Cymet

In his first day of kindergarten in 1991, a four-year old Ryan Cash walked with his mom to the mailbox at the end of his suburban street in Richmond Hill, Ontario. While waiting for the bus, she introduced him to Jordan Rosenberg, a neighbour boy who lived…

Take Your Joy

By Nicole Pacampara

Nestled in a former gramophone factory in St-Henri, a neighbourhood just outside the rustle and bustle of Montreal’s downtown core, lies the studio of Compulsion Games. Since Guillaume Provost founded the studio seven years ago, it has grown both in size and…

Cally and Her Caves

by Devon Wiersma

With only two people on a team of game developers and no experience shipping games before, one might (naturally) think that getting started in development and shipping your first game could be a difficult skill to tackle.

All About the Crew

By Nicole Pacampara

The crowd screams. Anticipation rises. Two dancers pace up and down the screen. Finally, the music starts and the battle begins.

In 2007, a short animated film about street dancers went viral. Set amidst Jonathan Ng’s…