The original Red Trigger was actually a game Vézina made on his own as a final student project and released on Steam through its Greenlight program in 2016 for free, primarily as a way to get his name out there and help land a job. In a panel on commercializing indie games at the Montreal International Game Summit earlier this month, Vézina told a story about dealing with Steam, the details of which drew anguished groans from the assembled developers on more than one ocassion.Īfter seeing the effect Vézina's story had on his peers, we thought it would be good to inflict the same pain on our readers draw attention to his plight as a cautionary tale, so we set up an interview and Vézina was gracious enough to dive a bit deeper into the details with us. Vézina is the founder and creative director of Bold Spirit Game Studio, the developer of the Red Trigger franchise of FPS puzzle games that counts Portal, BioShock, Metroid Prime, and Antechamber among its influences. And second, that we didn't just have as visibly, publicly, and undeniably clownish a week as OpenAI.

First, that what happened to Maxime Vézina hasn't happened to us. So in that spirit, we'll talk about two things (almost) all of us can be thankful for this week. No inducing carb-loaded comas mere hours before the sales go live for us!Įven so, out of deference to our American readers (and our American writer), we feel compelled to add a gimmicky Thanksgiving angle to the column this week. It's not so much a problem here in Canada, where we booted Thanksgiving to October, giving Black Friday the breathing room it needs for proper observance and letting us get a head start on the thankfulness over those sluggards to our south. It's Black Friday today, but sometimes I worry we can lose focus on the true meaning of the day, with the hyper-commercialist celebration being forgotten around all the 'reflections on gratitude' nonsense of the neighboring US Thanksgiving. This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends.

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