JaceTheGamerDesigner

Hi I'm an indie dev in Ottawa.

Some of my friends created a website where you can find Ottawa made video games and Ottawa indie game companies.

https://www.ottawagames.info/

I also hate to link to reddit now, but months ago there was a reddit post with a big list of Canadian devs and games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/comments/1iku9sm/canadian_game_designers_to_support/

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/

We have a handful of local meetups so everyone tends to know each other.

I am part of Skypyre Studios, as is Matt who is one of the 2 people running the website. We're 10 friends who release games together.

The largest Studio is SnowedIn. They only have 1 game listed but they do a lot of contract work for studios like Ubisoft. Last I checked they had 50+ employees.

The most recognizable is Steelcrate games who made Don't Talk and Nobody Explodes for VR headsets... originally at a local college game jam.

Another cool indie Studio is Breakfall. Who have 3-4 game's listed. They're currently making their own engine.

And there are numerous local indie's who have made a game solo.

Check out https://www.ottawagames.info/

It's an Ottawa website run by my friend's Matt and Paige, and they chronicle all of our community's games and developers.

It should have all the links you need.

Here in Canada I've started ordering from the Canadian Tire app instead.

USA dairy isn't getting tariff'd. That's actually misinformation.

The Canadian government has a system where if the market is flooded with over a certain amount of dairy, those crazy tariff numbers kick in.

In the past decade, the US has not been able to export enough to come close to flooding our market, so their dairy isn't heavily tariff'd.

Basically Trump is whining about a non-problem because he can't read.