Daniel Kaszor

Hello Startup members, We hope you are keeping safe during this time of precaution. The heart of Startup Edmonton is community and as we all continue to exercise best practices and social distancing, it is important to us that we continue to support our member startup and scaleup companies during this time. As a way to support you, Startup Edmonton will be waiving workspace membership fees going forward* and retroactively as of March 1, 2020.

A mighty samurai warrior thunders toward me. I raise my Viking axe in the air taunting him. Just before reaching me, he stops. He knows the terrain is to my advantage and with a few quick knocks of my weapon I can trip him off the wooden bridge I’m standing on and into the abyss below. We eye each other for a moment. And then another. He raises his stance so his katana is above his head. Then to one side. Then the other. I match him with my axe. I inch closer, attempting to taunt him onto the bridge.

This upcoming weekend is the ninth annual Toronto Independent Game Jam (TOjam), a non-competitive “game jam” where professional, hobbyist and student game designers come together, form teams and try to build a game over the course of a weekend. It’s an event that plays at the very heart of Toronto’s thriving, homegrown game-development scene.