The Gaming space in Vancouver continues to flourish thanks to a supportive community that has developed around the Big Companies and the smaller studios that call the West Coast home. Offshoots of the larger studios continue to sprout up but these 'Radical' departures seem to be an accepted by-product in this burgeoning space. Industry events unite the space locally with the Game Design Expo taking place last month, New Media BC's Fusion Forum later this month, and DemoCampVancouver06 being tagged as a Gaming Edition next time around.
As a non-gamer, it's hard to really appreciate how large the industry is. I've put together a list of BC's game studios - both developers and publishers - and I'm asking our readers for feedback. How many staff do these studios employ? Who's the largest? Who's buying who? Who are we missing? Please comment on this post.
This initial list is alphabetical and has been cross-referenced using both New Media BC's database and industry tracker GameDevMap.
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Rob,
This is a good list, but like most lists of the Vancouver gaming industry misses a very large (and profitable) sector - those companies developing the systems behind most of the worlds online gaming sites.
You've listed Chartwell Technologies, but other Vancouver-based companies in this space include:
Riptown Media
ESI Entertainment System
Futurebet Technologie
Las Vegas From Home
There are others, but these are few off the top of my head. Also HQ'd in Vancouver is the International Gaming Council a 'non-profit trade association that serves as a collective voice for the interactive gaming industry'.
Hope this helps.
Steve
[...] Rob was commenting on Techvibes about the raft of game companies in Vangroovy: As a non-gamer, it’s hard to really appreciate how large the industry is. I’ve put together a list of BC’s game studios - both developers and publishers - and I’m asking our readers for feedback. How many staff do these studios employ? Who’s the largest? Who’s buying who? Who are we missing? Please comment on this post. Source: The Gaming Industry in Vancouver [...]
Great list! FWIW, there's another (great) list located at the following URL: www.candevs.ca.
Nice list. I hope you don't mind me copying some of the devs not listed on my site :)
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I would suggest that you differentiate strongly between internet gambling gaming and gaming like EA. The internet gambling world is as sleazy and dishonest as you would perhaps expect.
