Five BC-based video game studios to receive funding through new CMF-Creative BC program
Toronto and Vancouver, March 25, 2025 — The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Creative BC (CrBC) today announced a joint $1M investment to support the growth of five video game studios based in British Columbia.
Announced in August 2024, the CMF-CrBC Video Games Business Development Program allocates funding to B.C.-owned and controlled companies to develop creative intellectual properties, encouraging growth for mid-level and experienced studios beyond the constraints of project-by-project funding. The five successful applicants will each receive $200,000 in funding.
The selected companies are:
- Burnaby's Critical Path Games Ltd.
- Comox's Blue Wizard Digital Inc.
- Victoria's Kano Applications Inc.
- Vancouver's Brace Yourselves Games Inc.
- Vancouver's Yumebau Inc.
“BC is home to some of the most talented and innovative video game creators in the world. This partnership with the Canada Media Fund provides BC companies with an essential boost to develop original games, grow their businesses, and compete on the global stage,” said the Honourable Spencer Chandra Herbert, British Columbia Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sport. “Funding will help to generate new and exciting products, which will drive economic growth and generate good paying jobs. I look forward to playing these games when they hit the market!”
"The CMF is delighted to support these five BC studios as they grow and create even more original intellectual property," said CMF President and CEO Valerie Creighton. "This partnership with Creative BC is proof that collaboration yields fantastic results for our creators and our industry. We can't wait to see what these studios create."
"Creative BC is proud to invest in these successful video game companies, whose award-winning IP continues to shape B.C.’s thriving gaming ecosystem,” said Creative BC CEO Prem Gill. “We are grateful to the Province of B.C. for its ongoing commitment to the interactive and digital media industry—most notably through the permanence of the Interactive + Digital Media Tax Credit and this program, supported in part by the Canada Media Fund. Gaming alone contributes $1.9 billion to B.C.’s total GDP, underscoring the industry’s vital role in the province’s economy.”
About the Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances, and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms. The CMF guides Canadian content towards a competitive global environment by fostering industry innovation, rewarding success, enabling a diversity of voice, and promoting access to content through public and private sector partnerships. The CMF receives financial contributions from the Government of Canada and Canada’s cable, satellite, and IPTV distributors. Visit our website for more information
About Creative BC
Creative BC is an independent society created and supported by the Province to sustain and help grow British Columbia’s creative industries: motion picture, interactive and digital media, music and sound recording, and magazine and book publishing. The organization delivers a wide range of programs and services with a mandate to expand B.C.’s creative economy. These activities include: administration of the provincial government’s motion picture tax credit programs; delivery of program funding and export marketing support for the sector; and provincial film commission services. Combined, these activities serve to attract inward investment and market B.C. as a partner and destination of choice for domestic and international content creation. The agency acts as an industry catalyst and ambassador to help B.C.’s creative sector reach its economic, social, environmental, and creative potential both at home and globally. Website: www.creativebc.com
Media contacts
Maxime Ruel
Senior Manager, Communications, CMF
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Lisa Escudero
Manager, Brand and Communications, Creative BC
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+1 604-730-2235
