Interactive Ontario

Interactive Ontario congratulates Michael Schmalz on his appointment as Chair of the Board of Directors at the Canada Media Fund | Fonds des médias du Canada 🎉 With over two decades of experience working in the video game industry, Dr. Schmalz’s passion and remarkable expertise will provide invaluable contributions to the important work done by the CMF. As fellow champions of video game and XR content and innovation, we look forward to working together to foster the growth of the Canadian and Ontario techno-creative industry.

Mark your calendars, our next Indie Superboost is ONE week away on July 11th 🚀 Jenny Windom, Communications & Community Director at Ivy Road, joins us to discuss how to navigate community building for your game IO/CIAIC Members attend FREE Register: https://bit.ly/isb-jenny

We’d like to extend a thank you to all the fantastic publishers who joined Interactive Ontario/CIAIC’s inbound mission to #XPGAMESUMMIT, and meeting with many talented studios from across Canada 🤝

With another astonishing #XPGAMESUMMIT wrapped for this year, we wanted to acknowledge all the talent, hard work, and dedication that was completed by those who participated in the Indie SuperBoost track at this year’s conference. ICYMI - with the generous support of Ontario Creates and Ubisoft Toronto, we showcased 14 Indie Superboost panels over the course of XP Game Summit 2024. Featuring over 30 different speakers, these talks covered a range of pressing topics relevant for anyone in the video game and XR industry, with a special focus on issues commonly faced by independent studios. And a special thank you to the ISB Committee for your continued dedication to our industry. Please look forward to more from Indie Superboost coming soon! 🚀 Ryan Miller Trang Nguyen 🌱 Zina Rahman Agusia Krzywinska Tony Howard-Arias Matthew W. Lucie Lalumière Kristian Roberts Jean-Jacques Hermans

This year’s IO Connect also had the chance to feature exclusive demos from Honour Bound Game Studios Inc., Alientrap Games, Numizmatic Games Corporation, Antonio Miceli (Mega Power Games), and Idiom Loop! Thank you to these studios for allowing our members to get hands on with your incredible work. We look forward to seeing what comes next for your teams in the near future 👀

IO Connect: Summer Mixer 2024 was only made possible with the collaboration of all our partners. We’d like to personally thank XP Gaming Inc., Jim Munroe, Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, Ontario Creates, Ubisoft Toronto, City of Toronto, Toronto Film School, Xsolla, London Economic Development Corporation (LEDC), FITC, JALI Research Inc., Lucky VR, Triple Dragon Limited, Pierre Moisan, Insert Coin Accounting, i3D.net, AMD DJXL and Vickram Kaura (Vito's Pizza). You made this year’s event a huge success - we couldn’t have done it without you 🎉

IO Connect: Summer Mixer 2024 was a rousing success! We were proud to host the official afterparty of #XPGAMESUMMIT, and kickoff Toronto Games Week 2024 in style! This wouldn't be possible without such amazing guests! Thank you to everyone who came out for great company, food, music and more! We hope you enjoyed the island time, and we look forward to sharing more details at our next mixer soon 🌴

Our June 11th Indie Superboost (ISB) Marketing & Discoverability Bootcamp would not have been possible without the gracious help of our team of expert workshop speakers! Angela Mejia, Chris Zukowski, Jenny Windom, Krysta Yang, & William Perkins📍Toronto Games Week truly went above and beyond to share their best tips and tricks for marketing, branding, and community management for studios in the video game and XR sector 🚀 Thank you so much for making this incredible day of learning and collaboration a massive success 🎉

Today we're giving a big congratulations to all the studios that successfully completed our Indie Superboost (ISB) Marketing & Discoverability Bootcamp. We’re proud to have presented a series of workshops by our industry leading speakers aimed at equipping indie studios with a strong foundation for future marketing, branding, and community management 🌟. Thank you to our wonderful sponsors Ontario Creates, Xsolla, Ubisoft Toronto, Canada Media Fund | Fonds des médias du Canada, Trade Commissioner Service | Service des délégués commerciaux, Toronto Metropolitan University Shoutout to our participants who travelled from near and far to attend this all day in-person event. We look forward to bringing you more from Indie Superboost very soon! 🚀

Last week’s IO Impact Forum Cocktail Mixer would not have been possible without the generous support of our sponsors City of Toronto, Xsolla, Nordicity, Insert Coin Accounting, i3D.net, Pierre Moisan, and Triple Dragon Limited - thank you for making this invaluable networking event between industry and stakeholders a resounding success 🥂