Canada Media Fund Contributes Almost 7 Million Dollars To 30 Innovative Projects

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced today a contribution of more than $6.7M in development and marketing support to innovative digital media projects as part of the first round of its 2014-2015 Experimental Stream funding. In July 2014, the CMF announced a contribution of more than $12.6M to 25 projects that received production support. Since 2010, the CMF has contributed $44.5M in development and marketing support to 204 interactive digital media projects as part of the Experimental Stream.
Development support
A total of 18 Canadian companies received support totaling $4.3M to develop 6 applications, 1 interactive platform, and 11 games. The 18 companies are located in various regions of the country, two in British Columbia, one in Nova Scotia, three in Ontario, and 12 in Québec. Development support provides funding for the conceptualization of an eligible project and/or for the development of the creative and technical elements of an eligible project and the drafting of a product proposal for business development and financing purposes.
Title | Applicant | Commitment |
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Anthymn | String Theory Entertainment | $198,900 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : English Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : British Columbia Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Appollo | Slant Design + Marketing Inc. | $247,420 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : English Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : British Columbia Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Card Saga | gopokyo Inc. | $172,517 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : English Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Nova Scotia Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Website Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Drag’n fly – Plateforme de création d’applications immersives mobiles | Les Productions Version 10 inc. | $362,039 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Holo Impression, Holo Immersion, Holo Colossal | Beam Me Up Games Inc. | $150,000 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Inner Friend (The) | Global Mind Inc. | $209,168 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Interact 220 | Turbine Inc. | $374,895 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : French Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Liquid Cinema | DEEP Inc. | $291,000 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : English Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Ontario Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Luna: A Voyage to the Moon | Crankshaft Games Inc. | $315,000 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Mage’s Path (The) | Jeux Borealys Inc. | $373,915 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
MoJo HTML5 Engine | Fidel (id) Innovation + Design Inc. | $134,700 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : English Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Moon Hunters | Kitfox Games | $163,275 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Open Orion | Spearhead Games | $400,000 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
ReLOAD | Pixel YUL Inc. | $400,000 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Seek Out Around the World | Frima Studio Inc. | $213,046 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Storycube | Animation Squeeze Studio Inc. | $104,967 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Super Quest | DrinkBox Studios Inc. | $175,000 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Ontario Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
You Are Not A Banana | Cullen, Brian | $45,000 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Development Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Ontario Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Marketing support
The CMF has contributed $2.4M in marketing support to 12 interactive digital media projects including six games, one social media application, and five software applications. Projects are from four regions in Canada, three from British Columbia, one from Manitoba, two from Ontario, and six from Québec. Marketing support provides funding for the marketing and promotion of an eligible project such as the creation of national and international marketing campaigns, design costs, creation and market-testing of advertising, use of the Internet for promotion or transactions, and more.
Title | Applicant | Commitment |
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Boximals Kuna Forest Marketing Funding | Boximals Studios Inc. | $134,760 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : British Columbia Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Boximals: The Lost Secret of Kuna Forest is an alternate imaginative educational game that generates curiosity in children and encourages the development of their math, logic and problem-solving skills.
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brainCloud and Foundation Applications | bitHeads Inc. | $343,947 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Ontario Platform : Digital Media Content type : Rich interactive media Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
BrainCloud is a platform that facilitates the development, management and monetization of engaging games (and gamified applications) on any device (smartphones, tablets, PCs and TVs) that can be integrated with any social network. BrainCloud is a feature-rich and multiplatform. BrainCloud supports iOS, Android, Blackberry, PC, Mac, Facebook and web clients. In addition, it has been designed to seamlessly connect to console and TV set top boxes in the future. |
Clandestine: Anomaly | ZenFri Inc. | $41,900 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Manitoba Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Clandestine Anomaly is an epic sci-fi adventure game for mobile devices. It is a tower defense game that leverages Augmented Reality (AR) and GPS technology to create a groundbreaking, unique and immersive gaming experience. The player will use their mobile to detect and assemble technology, coordinate campaigns, defend against attacks, neutralize enemies, and interact in real-time with human and non-human characters. Clandestine Anomaly also includes an emotionally engaging story where the user’s gameplay choices determine how in-game characters react, and how the game ends. Clandestine Anomaly takes sci-fi characters and uses AR to have the game take place in the player’s own world – literally, their own neighbourhood, anywhere in the world. |
Fabric Engine 2.0 Marketing and Promotion | Fabric Software Inc. | $297,544 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Fabric Engine is a framework for building digital content creation tools that are used in the production of movies, video games and TV shows. Fabric is a platform, not an application – which provides studios with 80% of any tool they need to build. This allows them to focus on the 20% that relates to the specific production needs at hand. This is an innovative approach designed to allow entertainment studios an alternative to outdated legacy software. With Fabric Engine, these studios are able to significantly reduce the cost and risk of the custom development that is required to produce the TV, movie and game content that we all enjoy. |
Heap C3MS | Turbulent Media Inc. | $337,500 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Website Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
HEAP C3MS technology is the first platform that combines content, community and commerce in an integrated software. The HEAP C3MS software has advanced publishing features including participation, sharing, gamification, recommendations, customer management and ecommerce. Successfully used in the Roberts Space Industries project, it quickly demonstrated its ability to support such activities on a large scale. |
Mafia Casino Mobile Application – Commercialization | 8266875 Canada Inc. | $144,045 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
The app version of the Mafia Casino board game is a card-based game with plenty of interaction among the players and has many colourful characters, customized AIs, a huge list of animations and 4 different game interfaces to fully appreciate the mini-games. Upon launching, the game app players can choose social modes of play or play online to climb Mafia Casino hierarchy and reach the top of the leaderboard. Mafia Casino is the first mobile game application on iOS and Android stores adapted from a board game that is also conceived, designed and produced in Canada. |
Missing | Zandel Média Inc. | $119,719 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Just after he is kidnapped for no apparent reason, Dave Newcastle, a man lost between his work and his home, will have to prove his will to survive and fight back to take control of his life and see his family again. MISSING is an interactive live-action thriller where the player assumes the role of Dave in a unique format accessible on all mobile devices (Android, iOS and Amazon). |
Mobs | Frima Studio Inc. | $75,455 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Mobs is a cross-platform action-puzzle game for Facebook and mobile devices where players must escort hundreds of Mobs, a race of minuscule digital creatures living within every electronic device; diligently going about their never-ending task of moving zeroes and ones, safely to their destination. The merciless devices they live in are a dangerous place; they are filled with hazardous obstacles that make data transmission a real challenge to them and to the player. Stompers, lasers, data leaks, viruses, heating circuits, fans and so many more deadly traps are waiting for those adorable yet naive little creatures. More often than not, the Mobs end up dying in atrocious, yet hilarious, ways before delivering their precious data. |
Plateforme Kilo-Beat | Electrik Box Inc. | $187,575 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Quebec Platform : Digital Media Content type : Rich interactive media Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
In today’s fast-growing exergaming market, the Kilo-Beat experience lets you train while playing exclusive music games specially designed by Electrik Box or video games the user can control via the advanced ActionBEAT sensors developed by our company. The concept is simple. The player installs the detachable ActionBEAT sensors on a stationary bike, connects to the Kilo-Beat platform on their smartphone or tablet, selects a game or app, and starts pedalling. The pedal’s rhythm will move a race car ahead, for example, or the rider’s own avatar which they can guide via the ActionBEAT sensors. While the player trains and plays, the platform uploads and records all the information needed to deliver a complete training session report. |
Starlite – Marketing | Project Whitecard Studios Inc. | $250,000 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : English Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Manitoba Platform : Digital Media Content type : Game Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Tipcast | Stagename Inc. | $132,379 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : Ontario Platform : Digital Media Content type : Social media Delivery Method : Application Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Tipcast is a new broadcasting medium for smartphones and the easiest way to Show & Tell. Inspired by Show & Tell from Kindergarten, Tipcast enables consumers, brands, and publishers to embed a video message to everything they share from a smartphone and communicate with audiences as though they are standing right in front of them. Deliver more personal and contextual recommendations, or broadcast bite-sized news with face-to-face storytelling. Get creative and add animation, overlay text, and a soundtrack to connect with public audiences, or Tipcast privately with friends to share what matters with people that matter most. Subscribe to Tipcasts that interest you and get notified of updates. |
Wundr Marketing (phase A) | Wundr Software Inc. | $350,287 |
Fiscal year : 2014-2015 Program : Experimental Language : Bilingual Activity : Marketing Genre : N/A Envelope : N/A |
Region : British Columbia Platform : Digital Media Content type : None Delivery Method : Downloadable Selection Round : 1 Status : Decision |
Playwrite has been designed for a new era of publishing: specifically for eBook creation. With Playwrite, eBook creation will become quick, easy, and low cost. It uses the industry standard ePub format and solves the major problems: it eliminates expensive hand coding and conversion and content is only created once for multiple platforms. The software provides the framework where content will adapt and reformat itself for all different kinds of devices and platforms, from large tablets on Android, to the iPhone, and more. |
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