We're thrilled to share that Dogfish Games has been selected as one of six British Columbia studios to receive funding through Creative BC's new Video Games Early Stage Growth Program. The program, announced on April 10, awarded $50,000 to each recipient — $300,000 in total across six emerging B.C. studios.
This is a meaningful moment for us. We started Dogfish Games as a small team of people who care deeply about the games we grew up playing, and who wanted to build something of our own that mattered. Funding like this means we can keep doing the careful, deliberate work that takes time — prototyping, level design, art, audio, all the polish that turns an idea into a game worth playing.
The grant will go directly into the things that matter most for an early-stage studio: advancing core development, hiring local talent, strengthening our technical infrastructure, and preparing our debut title for the world. Every dollar buys us more focus.
We're not the only studio celebrating today. Congratulations to the rest of the 2026 cohort:
- We Were Monkeys — Vernon
- 2TG Entertainment — Vancouver
- Let Us Cook Games — Coquitlam
- Secret Plan Games — Victoria
- Bramvale Studios — Burnaby
It's a privilege to be in this group. B.C.'s indie game scene is full of talented, ambitious people, and seeing the province invest in early-stage studios is exciting in the best way. This is how a creative ecosystem gets built — slowly, deliberately, with attention paid to the studios that are still finding their feet.
A huge thank you to Creative BC, the Province of British Columbia, and Minister Anne Kang for making this program possible. The $42M investment in B.C.'s creative sector announced by the Province in 2023 is reaching the people it was meant to reach.
We're heads-down on our debut title and we'll share more when the time is right. For now: thank you for being here. We're grateful, we're focused, and we're getting back to work.
— The Dogfish Games team
Original press release on creativebc.com →