Somewhere in the depths of east-end Toronto this past weekend, fish were flying over volcanoes, marionettes were fighting, and everything was exploding. One false move and you could have been blown to smithereens. Or, with a stroke of a key, you could have been home free. That’s right, it was the seventh annual TOJam. TOJam [...]

TOJam 5 co-organizer Jim McGinley is the event’s master of ceremonies, and a wearer of TOJam-related apparel. At the fifth annual instance of TOJam, Toronto’s own independent video game development jam, which began on Friday and ended last night, the pizzas were a telling indicator of the event’s rising station in Toronto’s indie game development [...]

Innovation Toronto’s next-door neighbour. On Eastern Avenue, just south of where Queen Street meets King Street, deep in a little pocket of industrial buildings wedged between Corktown and the Don Valley Parkway, is a junk-strewn brick building known, somewhat euphemistically, as “Innovation Toronto.” It’s been used at various times as a steel mill, a set [...]

The third annual Toronto Independent Game Development Jam ran from the 9th to the 11th of May this year with over 125 developers managing to produce 34 different games across the intense three day period, and their pain is now our pleasure as all of the successfully completed games have been released online. As if [...]