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A tabletop game box displays bold and surreal package designs featuring monsters and pizza. Dice and a rule book also sit on the table.
arts business

Edmonton-made role-playing game gets deluxe reprint after big win

Indie tabletop game developer Mikey Hamm is releasing a revamped edition of Slugblaster: Kickflip Over a Quantum Centipede after it was named the Game of the Year at the 2023 Indie Groundbreaker Awards.

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Game pieces for Blazing Hymn with the slogan "We Will Damn This World Together" beside the rulebook for Coyote and Crow, featuring two Indigenous characters in futuristic gear
arts games

Tabletop fundraiser World Builders YEG makes a play

Fans of indie role-playing games are organizing a tabletop gaming day to raise money for a good cause and promote local creations.

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Two cosplayers — a fae in a long coat with epaulettes and a lady in a knee-length frock and a big, fancy hat — pose with six black-clad conference-goers in front of a portal promoting Nightingale.
arts technology

Gaming studios leverage connections made at GamesCom

A trade mission to Germany helped a big Edmonton video game developer build more hype around its first big release while giving smaller studios more traction on an international stage.

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Two young people hold video-game controllers and react to what's on the monitor while others and watch inside an exhibition hall.
technology arts

Game developers chart a new course

Edmonton's gaming scene owes much to trailblazer BioWare, but the next generation of developers is doing things differently.

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A still from Times & Galaxy depicts the character-building screen. There are three different robots in the centre-right, and fields for name, pronouns, model type, and colours on the left.
technology arts

Ex-reporter creates journalism-themed sci-fi video game

An Edmonton-based journalist-turned-developer is getting ready to release a new video game that draws on his experience as a reporter.

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Cute video game characters leap among basketball nets in front of a neon pink and purple backdrop
arts technology

Game Discovery Exhibition returns to showcase growing industry

A video game that got its start at the first iteration of the Game Discovery Exhibition (GDX) will be part of the esports tournament at the resurrected version of the indie games expo at this year's K-Days.

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Edmonton Direct to highlight gaming industry this weekend
edmonton gaming

Edmonton Direct to highlight gaming industry this weekend

A two-day virtual celebration of all things gaming is on in Edmonton this weekend, with the aim to grow game development and culture.

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