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How Toronto’s game ecosystem is on the rise | Jason Lepine interview


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With the common topic of intellectual property in games, the speakers include Michael Schmalz, former president of Digital Extremes, maker of Warframe; Kate Edwards, CEO of Geogrify; Xalavier Nelson Jr., founder of Strange Scaffold, publisher of games such as El Paso Elsewhere and Stranger Things VR; Jason Della Rocca, founder of Execution Labs; and Daniel Posner, CEO at Finish Line Games. He focused on a dev conference within that event, and then left the company to build XP Game Summit back in 2019. When you look at a city like Montreal that’s been known for its creative culture for so many decades, to have that red flag of the government saying they won’t support it like they have, it really throws that industry into the unknown.

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