As reported by The Escapist.  Excellent.  Drink it up Ontario, drink long and deep.  If there isn’t a richly flourishing ecosystem of Game Development when I make my return in a few years, I will be gravely disappointed.  Prepare the verdant soil, and let the rivers of cash flow.

While I most definitely support government funding of this type to compete with our friends in B.C. and Quebec, $500,000 bucks apiece between two developers (indeed, the two largest in Ontario), is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but it’s not exactly a presumptive basis for a buoyant ecosystem.  This is better seen in the form of tax cuts for developers and grants for the establishment of new companies undertaking this most serious endevour.