Brad Shankar @ MIGS
@bradshankar.bsky.social
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How to uplift Canadian game makers? We asked them
Canadian AAA and indie developers, lobbyists, actors and entrepreneurs share how we can uplift our often-underappreciated gaming industry.
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Canada’s video game industry is MASSIVE but under-appreciated.
That’s been bothering me.
So, I spent the past 1.5 years asking dozens of AAA/indie devs, actors, lobbyists & more about how to address this & got an incredible range of perspectives! 🇨🇦 🎮
My 2nd-biggest @mobilesyrup.com feature ever:
That’s been bothering me.
So, I spent the past 1.5 years asking dozens of AAA/indie devs, actors, lobbyists & more about how to address this & got an incredible range of perspectives! 🇨🇦 🎮
My 2nd-biggest @mobilesyrup.com feature ever:
Last flight for about a month.
PHL ✈️ YUL
See you soon, MIGS! 🇨🇦 🎮
PHL ✈️ YUL
See you soon, MIGS! 🇨🇦 🎮
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Last flight for about a month.
PHL ✈️ YUL
See you soon, MIGS! 🇨🇦 🎮
PHL ✈️ YUL
See you soon, MIGS! 🇨🇦 🎮
Lest we forget.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Lest we forget.
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.
Locking in plans to attend The Game Awards for a few days around the show itself. (Devs/PR/colleagues, HMU if you’re doing anything that week!)
Who else is going to be there?
Who else is going to be there?
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Locking in plans to attend The Game Awards for a few days around the show itself. (Devs/PR/colleagues, HMU if you’re doing anything that week!)
Who else is going to be there?
Who else is going to be there?
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Toronto-based @softrains.bsky.social’s Ambrosia Sky Act One is out today. Haven’t had time for a full review but I really dig what I’ve played.
Wonderfully atmospheric with a lot of narrative intrigue & clever traversal.
A solid foundation that I’m excited to see the team build upon in future acts!
Wonderfully atmospheric with a lot of narrative intrigue & clever traversal.
A solid foundation that I’m excited to see the team build upon in future acts!
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Toronto-based @softrains.bsky.social’s Ambrosia Sky Act One is out today. Haven’t had time for a full review but I really dig what I’ve played.
Wonderfully atmospheric with a lot of narrative intrigue & clever traversal.
A solid foundation that I’m excited to see the team build upon in future acts!
Wonderfully atmospheric with a lot of narrative intrigue & clever traversal.
A solid foundation that I’m excited to see the team build upon in future acts!
Toronto-based @softrains.bsky.social’s Ambrosia Sky Act One is out today. Haven’t had time for a full review but I really dig what I’ve played.
Wonderfully atmospheric with a lot of narrative intrigue & clever traversal.
A solid foundation that I’m excited to see the team build upon in future acts!
Wonderfully atmospheric with a lot of narrative intrigue & clever traversal.
A solid foundation that I’m excited to see the team build upon in future acts!
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Toronto-based @softrains.bsky.social’s Ambrosia Sky Act One is out today. Haven’t had time for a full review but I really dig what I’ve played.
Wonderfully atmospheric with a lot of narrative intrigue & clever traversal.
A solid foundation that I’m excited to see the team build upon in future acts!
Wonderfully atmospheric with a lot of narrative intrigue & clever traversal.
A solid foundation that I’m excited to see the team build upon in future acts!
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If you’re a writer using LLMs to do your work, I have less than zero respect for you. It is a goddamn privilege to do what we do.
There are a bajillion other ways to overcome creative blocks, not the least of which is being a friggen professional and writing through it.
There are a bajillion other ways to overcome creative blocks, not the least of which is being a friggen professional and writing through it.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If you’re a writer using LLMs to do your work, I have less than zero respect for you. It is a goddamn privilege to do what we do.
There are a bajillion other ways to overcome creative blocks, not the least of which is being a friggen professional and writing through it.
There are a bajillion other ways to overcome creative blocks, not the least of which is being a friggen professional and writing through it.
“You know, if you look hard enough, you can see your whole life from up here.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“You know, if you look hard enough, you can see your whole life from up here.”
Crappy weather aside, I’m excited to fly out for something cool — and different than usual!
YYZ ✈️ PHL
YYZ ✈️ PHL
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Crappy weather aside, I’m excited to fly out for something cool — and different than usual!
YYZ ✈️ PHL
YYZ ✈️ PHL
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Home for one full day, so naturally, I’m squeezing in a new arthouse film.
#NowWatching
#NowWatching
November 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Home for one full day, so naturally, I’m squeezing in a new arthouse film.
#NowWatching
#NowWatching
Great Toronto game dev panel with @ubisoft.com Toronto’s Navid Khavari, @rocketadrift.bsky.social’s @linrocketadrift.bsky.social and @softrains.bsky.social’s @kaittremblay.bsky.social!
Really love seeing this kind of spotlight on talented Canadian devs at a local public venue like Hot Docs.
Really love seeing this kind of spotlight on talented Canadian devs at a local public venue like Hot Docs.
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Great Toronto game dev panel with @ubisoft.com Toronto’s Navid Khavari, @rocketadrift.bsky.social’s @linrocketadrift.bsky.social and @softrains.bsky.social’s @kaittremblay.bsky.social!
Really love seeing this kind of spotlight on talented Canadian devs at a local public venue like Hot Docs.
Really love seeing this kind of spotlight on talented Canadian devs at a local public venue like Hot Docs.
Back for less than 48 hours and then off to the next two trips. 🫡
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Back for less than 48 hours and then off to the next two trips. 🫡
When your flight is delayed but your Standby gamble paid off and you’re now on another one hours earlier.
EWR ✈️ YYZ
(End of Trip 2/4)
EWR ✈️ YYZ
(End of Trip 2/4)
a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
When your flight is delayed but your Standby gamble paid off and you’re now on another one hours earlier.
EWR ✈️ YYZ
(End of Trip 2/4)
EWR ✈️ YYZ
(End of Trip 2/4)
I didn’t plan for it, but it ended up being 80s/90s time travel movie week.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I didn’t plan for it, but it ended up being 80s/90s time travel movie week.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Currently running on just 1.5 hours of sleep, so I’m expecting this to be something of a fever dream.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Currently running on just 1.5 hours of sleep, so I’m expecting this to be something of a fever dream.
Today’s office.
More on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond next week!
More on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond next week!
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today’s office.
More on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond next week!
More on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond next week!
Because I’m crazy…
Going straight from [redacted] LA trip on a red-eye to NYC for [redacted] morning event 🫠
(Trip 2/4)
Going straight from [redacted] LA trip on a red-eye to NYC for [redacted] morning event 🫠
(Trip 2/4)
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Because I’m crazy…
Going straight from [redacted] LA trip on a red-eye to NYC for [redacted] morning event 🫠
(Trip 2/4)
Going straight from [redacted] LA trip on a red-eye to NYC for [redacted] morning event 🫠
(Trip 2/4)
Really happy for NYC.
Great to see some much-needed hopeful news for our American friends.
I also have a lot of family there so the city has always been close to my heart.
I’m actually going there tomorrow too for a day of fun stuff, so it’s good vibes all around!
Great to see some much-needed hopeful news for our American friends.
I also have a lot of family there so the city has always been close to my heart.
I’m actually going there tomorrow too for a day of fun stuff, so it’s good vibes all around!
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Really happy for NYC.
Great to see some much-needed hopeful news for our American friends.
I also have a lot of family there so the city has always been close to my heart.
I’m actually going there tomorrow too for a day of fun stuff, so it’s good vibes all around!
Great to see some much-needed hopeful news for our American friends.
I also have a lot of family there so the city has always been close to my heart.
I’m actually going there tomorrow too for a day of fun stuff, so it’s good vibes all around!
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THEYRE CALLING IT
HALO IS ON PLAYSTATION
HALO IS ON PLAYSTATION
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
THEYRE CALLING IT
HALO IS ON PLAYSTATION
HALO IS ON PLAYSTATION