Brett Lowey is an independent game designer/developer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, publishing under the name BrainGoodGames. BrainGoodGames are single-player strategy games designed with simple rules, emergent depth, scaling difficulty and procedur

#25 - Mike Safioles

Jul 24th, 2020 1h 8m

3D Artist at Zenfri Inc, and these days I do a lot of procedural / technical environment art with SideFX Houdini, Substance Designer, and Unity. I have a few years of experience in the 3D industry here in Winnipeg, having worked with Electric M

#24 - Zi Ye

May 13th, 2020 1h 5m

Zi is an engineer at Owlchemy Labs, having worked on titles such as Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator, and Rick & Morty: Virtual Rickality. He enjoys working on complex things, wacky things, and everything in between. He has a good dog.

#23 - Lesley Klassen

Jan 1st, 2020 1h 9m

Lesley co-founded Flipside XR, a VR animation company that makes Flipside Studio, a real-time animation app that enables vTubers, animators, and creators to bring their animations to life. He has directed multiple virtual reality experiences an

#22 - Steve Chubaty

Dec 18th, 2019 1h 10m

Game Developer (Surprise!), Avid Learner, King in the North? I've worked on a variety of games for a variety of platforms and game jams are one of my favorite things on the planet. I enjoy games that create interesting social situations, be it

#21 - Video Games!

Mar 6th, 2019 1h 41m

Albertine Watson is a Game friend at Infinite Ammo Inc, working on #ProjectPotato and others. Julian Beutel is a freelance composer for film and video games / explorer of weird sounds. Watcher's Woods | An Object At Rest | My Magical Friend | F

#20 - Justin Ladia

Feb 20th, 2019 58m 48s

Justin Ladia is a Winnipeg-based graphic designer and illustrator; a volunteer staff illustrator and 2017’s Volunteer of the Year at The Uniter; and a graphics assistant at Ai-Kon Winnipeg, Manitoba's largest anime convention. Justin is also th

Interactive Indies #19 - Corey King

Feb 6th, 2019 1h 5m

Corey King is an International award-winning story-teller, game developer & producer with experience in building mobile, augmented reality and virtual reality games through his company ZenFri which he co-founded with his wife Danielle. His ex

Interactive Indies #18 - Daniel Bergman

Jan 23rd, 2019 1h 18m

Educator, musician, and gamer. His career as an educator came naturally and practically from his passions as a musician, and his love of music career arguably came from dissecting the songs from the games he grew up on. Besides being the editor

Interactive Indies #17 - Noah Decter-Jackson

Jan 9th, 2019 1h 31m

Noah is the CEO & Creative Director of Complex Games, Winnipeg's first video game development company (as far as we know), which he co-founded in 2001. During his tenure at Complex he has been involved in some capacity with pitching, designing

Interactive Indies #16 - Graeme Borland

Dec 12th, 2018 1h 3m

Graeme Borland is a multidisciplinary game developer, frequent game jam participant, and tall person who does not play basketball. From working on VR games at Owlchemy Labs to his daily sketch blog, Graeme is seldom without a handful of project

Interactive Indies #15 - Kert Gartner

Nov 28th, 2018 1h 30m

Kert is a renowned indie game trailer craftsman and VFX industry veteran. He helped pioneer the creation of high quality Mixed Reality VR videos with the debut of the Fantastic Contraption and Job Simulator trailers for the HTC VIVE. While he

Interactive Indies #14 - Julian Beutel

Nov 14th, 2018 44m 51s

Julian Beutel grew up in the Canadian prairies playing classical piano and jazz trumpet, then moved to Los Angeles where a passion for composing for film and video games was awakened. In 2015 he composed the music for An Object at Rest, shortli

Interactive Indies #13 - Matheu Plouffe

Oct 31st, 2018 47m 19s

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Matheu grew up on the golden age of 8-bit video games. After graduating from the University of Manitoba with a degree in Film Studies and Philosophy, Matheu had a not completely unsuccessful run as a independent fil

Interactive Indies #12 - Adrian Cheater

Oct 17th, 2018 55m 55s

Adrian Cheater is a transgender woman, game programmer and co-founder of Complex Games, contributing to the development of over 15 titles. Born and raised in Winnipeg, she became interested in computers at a young age and has been actively codi

Interactive Indies #11 - Michael Gooch

Oct 3rd, 2018 54m 10s

The bombastic Michael Gooch. QA Tester for Square-Enix by day, Game Designer by night, this nomadic fellow has been developing his own games all over Canada and the UK for over 4 years, with his most recent mobile release delving into the histo

Interactive Indies #10 - Aaron Kostuik

Sep 19th, 2018 1h 25m

Aaron Kostuik is the CEO of AYBOnline Inc which started as a small internet cafe in 2001 and grew to host multiple LAN parties a year by 2003. Eventually, AYBOnline directed its focus to competitive gaming and started to host some of the larges

Interactive Indies # 9 - Shera Starr & Josh Grand

Sep 3rd, 2018 53m 32s

Josh Grand, formerly a SharePoint Developer/JIRA Administrator with Bell MTS, is a hobbyist game developer and professional procrastinator. When he's not playing games, he's thinking of game ideas that are far too difficult to implement at his

Interactive Indies #8 - Dann Blair

Aug 22nd, 2018 37m 58s

Daniel Blair founded Bit Space Development in 2015, working in interactive digital media focused on developing augmented and virtual reality experiences for serious purposes. He serves as technology advisor for North Forge Technology Exchange w

Interactive Indies #7 - Sara Wilde

Aug 8th, 2018 46m 33s

Sara Wilde is a 3D Character Artist, a coffee drinker, travel enthusiast and cat lover. Living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba Sara does a combination of freelance, teaching, and convention work. Her love of learning and new challenges makes

Interactive Indies #6 - Matt Woelk

Jul 25th, 2018 29m 1s

Matt Woelk is a game developer, improviser, and musician. To Matt, being is learning, mathematics is exciting, and stories are the lens through which we see the world. His goal is to make a game that you've heard of, while supporting the people

Interactive Indies #5 - Rebecca Kremer

Jul 11th, 2018 46m 4s

I'm Rebecca, and I've always been an artist. Currently I'm living a dual-life: 3D texture artist for Tangent Animation Studio by day and a Dental Hygienist by night. I have no actual formal training in art of any sort, though I do love sharing

Interactive Indies #4 - Ben Bergman

Jun 27th, 2018 22m 2s

Ben Bergman is the interactive developer for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He likes to work with his hands and his brain, with bytes and electrons. The world of human computer interaction and physical computing is his playground, be it

Interactive Indies #3 - Amy Gerardy

Jun 13th, 2018 29m 18s

Amy Gerardy is an illustrator and game developer who works as a freelance artist. She works on a variety of things, from prints and marketing materials, to art assets for games. In her spare time she likes to play video games and enjoy stories.

Interactive Indies #2 - Aaron Klaassen

May 30th, 2018 29m 15s

Aaron Klaassen is a web developer who definitely doesn’t make video games. These days he leads the API team at Unsplash, and when not doing that he’s working on the Winnitron Network, an indie arcade machine platform and online library of games