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Any games, any hardware, any table -- but with a focus on Canadian!

This community is focused on celebrating and talking about games created by Canadians or heavily influenced by Canadian culture. This can include console games, pc games, or even table top games such as boardgames or TTRPGs.

This may also extend to Canadian content creators whose channels main focus is on gaming content. Limited self-promotion is allowed.

Community discord will be incoming shortly.

DA RULES

Be Respectful: Gift everyone your kindness and patience. If you have none, gift your silence instead. Discrimination, hate speech, or harassment won't be tolerated. If you see any, just downvote and report and it will be cleaned up.
Stay on Topic: Posts must be relevant to Canadian games and Canadian gaming topics. Comments are not relegated by this rule, they are a free for all for discussion. Exceptions may be made to this rule at mod discretion, but the idea is that this is !canadiangaming, not !gaming.
French and English are welcomed: We accept and encourage both official languages. French is super cool. Feel free to post or comment in either language, regardless of the OG post's language.
Content creator promotions: Promotion of the same channel is limited to once a week. The channel must either be Canadian, or the content being shared must feature a Canadian gaming topic prominently in the video.
Memes: Memes (image macros) are allowed, but all other rules still apply to the meme itself.

The No Rules:

No Political posts: This community is not the correct place for political discussion. LGBTQ+ content is not political. Anyone unironically critiquing games (or calling them "woke") for merely including LGBTQ+ content will be removed.
No Spamming or low quality posts: Mods reserve the right to remove posts or comments that are low quality and do not contribute to the community. Low quality content is at moderator discretion, but largely defined as irrelevant to the topic of the community, repeated topics, and reposted content.
No Pornographic content: No NSFW content. Keep it clean. Adult topics are allowed if they are on topic respectable, but adult imagery of any kind is not allowed. Don't be thirsty on main.
No doing stuff that makes me need to make more rules: Moderation reserves the right to take action on anything seen as detrimental to the community. Just cause I didn't write it down here doesn't mean it is necessarily allowed.

Rules are subject to change as the community grows.

founded 1 year ago

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GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca

Welcome to Canadian Gaming! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca to c/canadiangaming@lemmy.ca

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Hello!

This is a community created to fill a void in the lemmy.ca ecology to center around Canadian gamedevs and related content.

Discussion regarding games, news about games, are not strictly required to be relevant to Canadian studios or gamedevs.

The main mission of this community is, however, to foster a community united by an appreciation towards Canadian Games and similar content creators. Moderators (only myself at the moment) reserve the right to utilize moderation powers to reinforce that mission through positive reinforcement, such as pinning certain posts and hosting discussion posts.

Bonjour!

Il s'agit d'une communauté créée pour combler un vide dans l'écologie de lemmy.ca afin de se concentrer sur les développeurs de jeux canadiens et le contenu associé.

Les discussions concernant les jeux et les nouvelles sur les jeux ne sont pas strictement nécessaires pour être pertinentes pour les studios ou les développeurs de jeux canadiens.

La mission principale de cette communauté est de favoriser une communauté unie par l'appréciation des Jeux canadiens et des créateurs de contenu similaires. Les modérateurs (moi seul pour le moment) se réservent le droit d'utiliser leurs pouvoirs de modération pour renforcer cette mission par des actions positives, comme l'épinglage de certains messages et l'hébergement de discussions.

La traduction française est mauvaise ? Désolé ! Mon français est débutant. Pour un français avancé, j'utilise des applications de traduction.

Rimworld Oddyssey and Update 1.6 | Rimworld (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca to c/canadiangaming@lemmy.ca

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Rimworld is a game created by Ludeon Studios, founded by Canadian game dev Tynan Sylvester and worked on by various international game devs. Tynan currently works from Ottawa, although the studio itself is based in New York.

Really excited to see everything being added to the game! This DLC looks really sick! I've been really busy lately, but I may make time to make a spotlight post about Rimworld, since it is my personal favourite game and is pertinent to the topic of Canadian Gaming.

New Rimworld DLC announced! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca to c/canadiangaming@lemmy.ca

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Reggie - Aneurism IV - "Anuerism IV: Burn Bodies, Steal Laundry, Become Proletariat" [35:56] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca to c/canadiangaming@lemmy.ca

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The Content Creator:

Reggie is a rapidly growing Canadian content creator whose content has a focus on absurdist humour with a ting of edge to it. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea but his aesthetic of narrative and humourous editing has gained quite a bit of popularity and is trending with other similar creators. If you enjoy rough & dark humour and much like me probably have attention deficit problem, I heavily recommend Reggie.

The Game:

Aneurism IV is a game created by Vellocet, based in Montreal, Quebec. It is, as described by the studio, "An immersive multiplayer industrial nightmare simulator". The game clearly takes great inspiration from dystopian tropes (as hinted by the studios name, Vellocet, which is a drug from the dystopian 1971 A Clockwork Orange novel.) and, from my own interpretation, gmod roleplaying servers. The charm of the game appears to hinge on the chaos of multiplayer roleplaying intersecting with a parody of common dystopian tropes of gore and brutalism.

The game is currently available on steam for $12.99 CAD. It is the first and only game created by Vellocet and is still being supported with updates and a active multiplayer community of around 1,000 in-game per day.

Nine Dots Backstage #2 – May 22nd (ninedotsstudio.com)

submitted 1 year ago by liverpoolbutter@lemmy.ca to c/canadiangaming@lemmy.ca

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I'm excited for Outward 2, but I should probably check out their other games too.

GameStop Canada to be rebranded EB Games after acquisition by Quebec toymaker | cbc.ca (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca to c/canadiangaming@lemmy.ca

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Exciting to see where the new owners take this. Was bought by "Electronics Boutique Canada Inc." and will be now called EB Games Canada... again.

The below article has more brief history regarding the personality and history of the new owner. Seems like selling toys might be a bigger focus rather than selling physical games -- but truthfully that was a dying aspect of the business anyways, everything being digital now and what not.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/eb-games-is-coming-back-to-canada-with-community-nostalgia-and-innovation-at-its-heart/

But hey, it is fully Canadian owned and operated now. That is something at least.