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Author: Mike Corey ( mike_corey@hotmail.com )

Introduction: Welcome to Canadian Game Companies, the longest list of game development and game industry-related companies located in Canada. Canada is the best country for game development!

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1. Game Developers (Low to Medium Profile) (226 listed)
2. Service Providers (Art, Code, Sound) (currently shares table with above category)
3. Game Developers (High Profile) (17 listed)
4. Game Jobs (340 listed)
5. Game Job Sites (24 listed)
6. Game Internships (4 listed)
7. Game Tools/Software Companies (60 listed)
8. Game Hardware Companies (14 listed)
9. Game Publishers (16 listed)
10. Online Game Providers (2 listed)
11. Game Retailers (Online/Storefront) (13 listed)
12. Game Centers (1 listed)
13. Canadian Recruiters (4 listed)
14. Animation Companies (4 listed)
15. Multimedia Companies (29 listed)
16. Mod Teams (4 listed)
17. Game Schools, Schools, and Academics (42 listed)
18. Associations, and Government (31 listed)
19. Game Magazines (Online/Print) (9 listed)
20. Feature Articles (19 listed)
21. Industry Greats (1 listed)
22. Canadian Game Industry Resources (33 listed)
23. Dead Game Companies (25 listed)

1. British Columbia (144 listed)
2. Alberta (26 listed)
3. Saskatchewan (1 listed)
4. Manitoba (4 listed)
5. Ontario (132 listed)
6. Quebec (85 listed)
7. New Brunswick (3 listed)
8. Nova Scotia (2 listed)

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"[Canadian Game Companies" is the most useful Canadian gaming industry search tool that I have found.

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Brief: Canadian Game Companies was launched in December 2002 to provide a valuable and comprehensive resource on the Canadian game industry for game developers, game industry participants, and game students. This list quickly managed to gain the top spot in Google categories like 'game, industry, Canada' and 'Canadian, game, companies'. Canadian Game Companies currently attracts over 10,000 visitors each month.

History: It all started with a little bit of game industry job research, in April of 2002, when I... read more

Affiliates: Classic Gaming Collectors of Canada

Info: 446 companies, 340 job listings, 70 other listings, Version 2.0.

More info: See company websites! See if they are on Gamasutra. Visit original IGDA thread for this list. You are free to link to this list.

If you do link to this list, you can become an affiliate. Simply send me the link to your site where you have linked to my site. If you wish to host some of the listings on your website, contact me first.

How to Search: Canadian Game Companies now includes a search function hosted by Atomz Search. Thanks to Atomz Search for this free and powerful search engine, and thanks to www.igda.org for their Colophon page which provided a valuable reference to this search engine.

Now I recommend a dual approach. For instance, let's say you were searching for game software companies in Toronto. You can use the search function below to search for 'toronto'. You get 16 results. Of those results, click on the link for 'Canadian Software Companies' (it's second on the search results). Now, you are sent to 'Canadian Software Companies' page. You can either scroll down the page to search for those companies located in Toronto, or you can press 'Ctrl-F', type in 'Toronto' (or any other desired search word), and the browser will highlight, and skip to, each instance of 'Toronto' in the document in turn. This will work for any desired search term, as long as it is present in the document.

Feedback: This resource listing is provided free to all users, and while it is as accurate and fair as possible, no warranties are made as to its accuracy, or fairness. Apologies, however, if there are any errors or omissions. If you do have a listing to add, a listing to correct, or a listing to remove, let me know!

Upcoming Features: Top 10 List of Canadian Game Developers, Canadian Game Industry daily news, Canadian Game Industry visualization tools, job search tips, comment section, new domain name. Stay tuned!

Contributors: Bren, t_i_fowler, Barbara Walter, Andrew Wooster, James Everett, Jeremy Kennelly, Dan Mullins, Jackie, Hugo Frappier, Trina Dreher, Kalev Tait, Tyson McCann, Nate, Wayne Seifried, Dave Hill, Johnathan Skinner, Hugo Morin, Jason Della Rocca, Chris Charabaruk, Duncan Suttles, Shawn Potter, Steven Hoffman.

Thank you!

It all started with a little bit of game industry job research, in April of 2002, when I put together a hit list of game companies in Canada. In the spirit of sharing our natural resoures, I posted the list in an IGDA thread .

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that even the mighty Gamasutra falls far short of representing the full gamut of game companies in Canada. Soon I realized I had the longest list of Canadian Game Companies available on the Internet. Canada is the best country in the world for computer and video game development. Rock on, Canada!

You are free to link to this list. If you wish to reproduce this list on your website, please contact me first. Dan Mullins did this, and now he has Canadian Game Companies up on Classic Gaming Collectors of Canada . You too can be a proud partner of Canadian Game Companies.

In September 2003, I completed a certificate in Game Art and Design at the Art Institute of Vancouver-Burnaby . You're looking at version 2 of this big list.

Version 3 is here! Visit GameGoose.ca, and Get in the Goose!