My entire region, the CONs sweeped it. Rough! I’m glad federally the Libs won though. I just made a detailed post about it in my regions lemmy community.

I really hope the CONs that just won and keep their seats are able to go up to bat to defend Windsor from the worst effects of the Trump Tariffs. This region stands to be the most afflicted.

Jagmeet is already, gone, I think PP isn’t long for politics going forward. I think this is great, we need fresh blood and I hope CONs realize their strats aren’t gonna cut it.

I don’t want the CONs gone from Canada, I want them to reform into a party worthy of respect – just differing in opinion of how to progress Canada forward.

Lmao if I knew it was blocked in Canada I’d have gotten a different link, my bad.

Dude commented within 1 minute of me posting this too.

I agree. I think games fall into the realm of art, and much in the same way I might visit a Canadian history museum to see our unique historic cultural artefacts, or a modern art gallery featuring Canadian artists, I am also interested in seeing what Canadian gamedevs are brewing up. We absolutely have a respectable gamedev scene in Canada and I think that is worth celebrating and discovering. Same for any other country too. It’s a exploration of the unique cultural fingerprint we leave in the things we create. VERY different from the concept of national exceptionalism – a game/thing/person being Canadian does not make it inherently superior. It’d be silly to think that, and I’d never suggest so.

That is hard to quantify and verify, as most of these studios are privately owned and not required to publicly disclose that type of information.

I’d agree this would be the way, if only we could actually verify this. I think a physical studio/space in Canada is the best compromise because that is something we can actually verify with simple online sleuthing. Remote work is only increasing, and does make this complicated.

There are two communities I would really like to see some traffic driven to:

!maplemusic@lemmy.ca - Celebrating Canadian music

!givergaming@lemmy.ca - Celebrating Canadian games, gamedevs and studios

I think these would be an easy add to the Canadian Social / Culture section.

Chill, it’s not meant to be that deep.

This is a community that seeks to celebrate and spread word of Canadian games and studios. I figured it would be nice to have a discussion and come to some kind of conclusion on how we determine if a game or studio is Canadian. Nothing more, nothing less. Any political commentary beyond that can be had in other more relevant communities.

For a gamedev, an individual person? Just being Canadian, I suppose. For a studio? I think it should be by being based in Canada, even if it is owned by a larger entity based elsewhere (Such as the Ubisoft Montreal branch) For the game itself? Made by a Canadian studio.

I took the initiative and actually emailed their support email address and asked them how much of the company is based in Canada. Hopefully I hear from them soon!

I hope it is not a situation where the studio just happened to be founded/owned by a Canadian. A Canadian owning a company does not make it a Canadian company – by that logic, twitter/x is a Canadian company.

I think this community should decide what exactly constitutes a “Canadian Game” or Studio.

Fair – it is a bit of a grey area in that regard. I’ve been playing Rimworld for about 5 years now, and can attest that a large majority of the Game’s creative direction is from Tynan himself. The wikipedia article for Rimworld elaborates on the development history of Rimworld a bit more, and seem to imply it was at least originally created in Canada, back when it was just Tynan and a few other devs.

Could be worth directly asking the studio how Canadian they are or consider themselves to be. They are rather active with the community with a active community engagement person on the subreddit.

Tynan Sylvester / Ludeon Studios, creator of Rimworld. Based in Ottawa (or that is where he lives according to his LinkedIn atleast.