Schedule archive for 2025
Toronto Games Week Schedule (June 12-18, 2025)
Come explore the many events, gatherings, and happenings of Toronto Games Week 2025!
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Thu June 12, 8:00p.m.-11:00p.m.
📅Giant Video Games & TGW Kickoff
Come celebrate the beginning of Toronto Games Week outdoors at the waterfront! Meet some new folks and get hyped for the big event at sundown: a massive playable projection of Toronto-related games on the historic Canada Malting Silos. Made possible by Interactive Ontario, Dirty Rectangles, & OCAD University. Presented by the City of Toronto. Free!
Industry Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators
Thu June 12, Fri June 13, 9:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
📅XP Game Summit
Your future is shaped by the connections you make: to people, companies, and information. Join the video game industry at XP Game Summit for business-to-business networking, connectivity, deal making, expert insights from 100+ speakers, a showfloor packed with tools, services, and indie games; two days designed to drive your game business and career forward. Use code XP25TGW to save 10% on tickets.
Hyatt Regency Toronto, 370 King St W
Academics Industry
Thu June 12, Fri June 13, -6:00p.m.
📅xXx_FANTASYLAND_xXx
A transgressive multimedia project combining music, live performance, and videogames to create a dreamlike landscape which captures the objectification of trans and racialized bodies. Blending dance with surreal horror, it utilizes the medium of videogames as a storytelling tool where the player’s participation is integral. Free!
Community Game Enthusiasts NextGen Creators Game Curious Game Creators Sound & Music Enthusiasts/Artists
Thu June 12, 5:00p.m.-7:30p.m.
📅Behaviour Meet & Greet Event (FULL/SOLD OUT)
Join us for an evening filled with networking and fun after a full day at the XP Game Summit. We’re hosting this in-person event at Behaviour’s brand-new Toronto office. Come connect with fellow industry professionals, debrief the summit, and enjoy drinks and food (on us!) in great company. Don't miss the chance to unwind, meet new people, and level up your game. See you there! Free with registration (FULL)!
96 Spadina Ave, 7th floor, suite 700
Industry
Thu June 12, 5:00p.m.-6:30p.m.
📅Journaling for Game Makers
Game-making is a rigorous endeavour of many moving parts. To keep our creative juices flowing, we can use journaling to help us set development goals, reflect on our production process, and explore new networks and opportunities. Join Tanya Kan from Vivid Foundry in a roundtable and workshop about how journaling can motivate us! Bring your journal and your writing tools. All experience levels and all disciplines are welcome. You will also have the opportunity to try out and purchase fountain pens (24 available). Free! Registration not required. Limited capacity, first come first served!
Fort York Library, 190 Fort York Blvd
Game Creators
Thu June 12, 6:30p.m.-8:00p.m.
📅Making + Playing a Little Free Library RPG
Spellbinder is a quick-play tabletop roleplaying game where players borrow books from a Little Free Library and use the words inside to cast powerful (and unpredictable) spells. Join the creator Mathew Iantorno for a short talk about the challenges of developing a game that interacts with urban space. Then, pick up a book, put on your best wizard hat, and play a short demo of Spellbinder. Free! Registration not required. Limited capacity, first come first served!
Fort York Library, 190 Fort York Blvd
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators
Fri June 13, 6:00p.m.-9:00p.m.
📅DEI or DIE Variety Showcase & Queer Social
Hosted by Queer hyper-nerds Gav Sarafian & Hannah Beatty, DEI or DIE! features micro talks and performances on the subject of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & its critical influence on the gaming industry. Stick around for the post show reception to unpack big ideas, geek out with industry peers, and try your hand at some killer games. Supported by CODE-CWA. Free with registration here.
TMU, 341 Yonge St, The Sky - 8th floor
Academics Industry Community Game Creators
Fri June 13, 6:00p.m.-9:00p.m.
📅The G.R.I.D.
Structured playtesting. Industry feedback. The G.R.I.D. is a welcoming, behind-the-scenes space where indie devs, studios, and solo creators can show off their games, get honest, helpful feedback, and keep improving—no matter what stage the game’s in. It’s all about structure, support, and moving your project forward with fresh eyes and solid input. Register for free as a playtester or as a developer here. (FULL/SOLD OUT)
George Brown College, 3 Lower Jarvis St.
Industry Community Game Creators
Sat June 14, 10:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
📅Rat Race | Adventure in the P.A.T.H.
Navigate Toronto’s legendary underground network as fast as you can — solving clues, uncovering hidden gems, and collecting bonus points as you go. Whether you’re chasing the glory of being crowned Toronto Games Week P.A.T.H. Champion or just exploring for fun, adventure awaits far below the city streets. No experience needed — just bring your curiosity, comfortable shoes, and a sense of adventure. Perfect for solo players, duos, and teams up to 4! Level: Moderate walking (~1.5km total) Free with registration!
Clock Tower inside Union Station, 55 Front St. W
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious
Sat June 14, 10:30a.m.-2:00p.m.
📅Game Jam Day: Board Game and PICO-8 MicroJams (FULL)
Want to make a game in a day? Join us for our MicroJams, where we'll be hosting a 1-day board game and PICO-8 game jam. This will include a hands-on workshops by Andrew Tran and Adam Saltsman (Finji), open jam time, and a showcase where everyone can play each other's projects. Free, registration required.
Lillian H. Smith Public Library (Lower Level), 239 College St
Industry Community Game Enthusiasts Game Creators
Sat June 14, 11:00a.m.-1:00p.m.
📅In Search of the Godmama: a Playful Workshop
This workshop is an alternative ritual for exchanging goddesses from your own cultures. However, the conjuration may surprise you -- your goddesses might have been acquainted centuries before we met. It’s an experimental approach designed to gather collective storytelling for a developing game project that invites players to explore mythic landscapes while uncovering the erased legacies of female deities. Free!
Grange Park, Beverley St & McCaul Street
Academics Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators
Sat June 14, 12:00p.m.-8:00p.m.
📅Pixel Power Play
A Gaming Network and Toronto Community Meetup Powered by Twitch Presents: Pixel Power Play! This exciting in-person and virtual event will showcase upcoming video game releases and industry announcements from Canada and around the globe. Attendees can look forward to live demos, game announcements, trailers, and gameplay reveals from developers. Register here!
Red Bull / Overactive Media, 41 Fraser Avenue
Industry Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators
Sat June 14, 12:00p.m.-2:00p.m.
📅The Hunt for the Brightwing Butterfly
Lace up your boots! The Hunt for the Brightwing Butterfly is an immersive scavenger hunt in Toronto’s High Park. Sir Charles Lockwood, renowned Victorian naturalist, needs your help to explore the park, solve cryptic puzzles, and be the first to discover a brand new species of magical butterfly! Buy tickets and more info here.
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious
Sat June 14, 1:00p.m.-3:00p.m.
📅Kitten Cup Tea Party: A Capy Castaway Catstravaganza!
It’s the return of our annual Kitten Cup Tea Party in the Park! Meet local indie devs, sip some tea, check out Pekoe and our upcoming game Capy Castaway. We also have fun capybara inspired activities, exclusive giveaways, and don’t forget to participate in our tea-pose tradition! Free!
Grange Park, Beverley St & McCaul Street
Industry Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators
Sat June 14, 1:30p.m.-4:00p.m.
📅Game Jam Day: What's Next, Jammer?
The launch of That's My Jam white paper features Gina Hara (GAMERella), Adam Saltsman (Finji), and Adam Clare (Sheridan) sharing their perspectives on the cultural and economic value of game jams. Then, Kim Gibson from Ontario Creates will do a short presentation and Q&A about how jammers and other new creators can apply for prototype funding. Supported by Ontario Creates. Free! Regisration not required.
Lillian H. Smith Public Library (Lower Level), 239 College St
Industry Community Game Enthusiasts Game Creators
Sat June 14, 3:15p.m.-5:00p.m.
📅Haggle on the Grange
Given only a handful of cards and a snippet of the rules, players must negotiate, trade, collude with, and potentially double-cross other Toronto Games Week attendees to claim the crown of Haggle honcho! Experience a large-scale game of Sid Sackson's oft-overlooked party classic Haggle in picturesque Grange Park. Free!
Grange Park, Beverley St & McCaul Street
Academics Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious
Sat June 14, 6:30p.m.-8:00p.m.
📅Between the Public and the Private: Vector Festival Game Residency Keynote
Join us to celebrate the beginning of the Vector Festival Game Art Residency, curated by Bracy Appeikumoh, with keynote speaker, Min Sook Lee, a critically-acclaimed documentary filmmaker and activist. Lee will speak on this year’s residency focus: exploring video games as autoethnographic and autofictive practice. Free, more info here.
Academics Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators
Sat June 14, 8:30p.m.-11:00p.m.
📅Night Bike Parkcade
This year, our legendary Night Parkcade -- a pop up arcade at a park after dark! -- has a special two-wheeled theme! Dress your bike up in lights and pedal on over (or hotfoot it from a subway stop) and enjoy a number of bike-related videogames: the protest game Loser Lane, unicycle thrasher Street Uni X and a preview of Molleindustria’s upcoming solarpunk game. Free, the clues to the location are here.
Community Game Curious Game Creators
Sun June 15, 11:00a.m.-4:00p.m.
📅Games Made Open
Interested in open source game engines and hardware? Come down to the TTLMakerspace for a day of hands-on hacking and learning about free open-source tools like Godot and Blender. Create and flash your own game on a Gameboy cartridge with GBStudio, an open source program! Play laser-cut mini arcade cabinets! Free, with registration.
TTL Makerspace, 192 Spadina Ave. Unit 001a
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Creators
Sun June 15, 11:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
📅Board Game Design Jam
A Game Jam dedicated to boardgame designers, artists, and enthusiasts - where teams and individuals can gather to create a prototype boardgame (some materials provided), while receiving input from others in the hobby space, and grow the developer side of the Toronto board gaming community. Free, with registration.
Snakes & Lattes College, 489 College St
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators Artists/Illustrators
Sun June 15, 12:00p.m.-5:00p.m.
📅Metazooa Live!
Come explore High Park in an evolution-themed scavenger hunt where you'll track down plants and animals with your phone, build your own tree of life, and win prizes just for being curious about nature! Transform your understanding of biodiversity while exploring one of Toronto's most beautiful parks! Free, more info here.
Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Animal lovers and biology nerds
Sun June 15, Mon June 16, 12:00p.m.-11:59p.m.
📅Out of Bounds 2ronto
Out of Bounds 2ronto is Lady Arcaders' second annual in-person women & femme speedrunning event! Folks will play games as quickly as possible, showing off their talents and challenging themselves! The event will also be broadcast online to our Twitch channel. EVERYONE is welcome to join the fun! Buy tickets, details & schedule here.
Society Clubhouse, 967 College St
Community Game Enthusiasts ESports
Sun June 15, 1:00p.m.-8:00p.m.
📅Dream Game Incorporated
A playful, family friendly event where participants doodle and draw based on silly prompts before having their art immediately scanned and included as assets in a playable game prototype. You can drop in anytime during the event. The vibe is fun and collaborative, with volunteers pretending to be employees of a fictional games company that we’re all working at together! There will be improvised musical accompaniment by Hypergame Storytime, and we'll also have pro-game artists on hand to chat and give advice. Pay-what-you-want.
Hideaway Studios, 1586 Dupont St
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators kids welcome!
Sun June 15, 1:00p.m.-6:00p.m.
📅Games & Grains Board Game Social
New to board games? No problem! At Toronto Board Game Social, our friendly hosts are here to help you learn any game you’re curious about. Try classic board games as well as new favorites in a fun, relaxed space—no pressure, just good food and great games! Drop in anytime, all levels welcome! Free, with registration.
Basil Box, 5607 Yonge St, North York, ON M2M 3S9
Community Game Enthusiasts Board Game players
Sun June 15, 2:00p.m.-7:00p.m.
📅Indie Game Emporium
A congregation of local DIY developers offering their artisanal videogame products. Meet the indies making eclectic games (in your area!) and buy their wares without the separation of screens, distribution platforms, and algorithms which rule the land of computer entertainment on The Net. Free!
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious
Sun June 15, 4:00p.m.-10:00p.m.
📅Down Bad Hospital
Dr. Sweets, specialist in the affliction ‘Down Bad Syndrome,’ investigates its symptoms: yearning, spiraling, and humiliation. At DOWN BAD HOSPITAL we’ll explore crushes as a mode of self-discovery through facilitated discussions, interactive activities and immersive theatrics. Then, cozy up at POSTCARDS TO CRUSHES to both read & create confessional mail art as we build an archive of heartfelt letters. $10 for Down Bad Hospital for selected applicants, PWYC/Free for Postcards to Crushes
Community Game Enthusiasts
Sun June 15, 7:00p.m.-9:00p.m.
📅NextGen Showcase
Returning in its third year! NextGen Showcase is a curated showcase, handpicked by an esteemed curator, featuring games crafted by emerging talents in Toronto's vibrant game development scene. Immerse yourself in an evening of extraordinary gaming experiences from the future talents of the Toronto game dev scene, accompanied by delectable appetizers. Supported by Unreal and AMD. Free!
NextGen Creators
Sun June 15, 7:30p.m.-11:59p.m.
📅Play House
A series of playful performances that will B fusing live music and games to X-press Y we create. Have a dance dance to some electronic or pick up the controller and have a frolic. The SELECT is eclect as we START some new art. D-PAD is SeeScape, up the flight of stairs, and PWYC micro-transactions at the door go to charity. Pay-what-you-want.
Game Curious Enjoyers of the Electronic
Mon June 16, 4:00p.m.-7:00p.m.
📅Deck Building
A drop-in event where you can create your own trading cards! Make (and keep!) your deck and battle a community boss, while meeting some of Toronto's newest game devs in a student-led event. Come for a unique slice of the local game dev scene, and a silly card game! Free!
Lillian H. Smith Public Library (Lower Level), 239 College St
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Students
Mon June 16, 6:00p.m.-8:00p.m.
📅The Playful Page: A Sci-Fi Rom-Com Conversation
Holly Gramazio (game designer turned novelist) and Jim Munroe (novelist turned game designer) chat about writing, games, fiction, Jim's new graphic novel Zeroed Out, Holly's book about an attic full of endlessly spawning husbands -- and how The Husbands has been greenlit by Apple to be made into a TV series by A24 starring Juno Temple (Ted Lasso). Books for sale through Another Story. Free!
Palmerston Public Library (Lower Theatre), 560 Palmerston Ave
Community Game Curious
Mon June 16, 8:30p.m.-9:45p.m.
📅Parachute Club
Did you play with those massive, multicoloured silk parachutes in gym class or summer camp? Have you tried playing with one as a grown up? You should because they're REALLY FUN! Come along and suggest/invent new games we can play together in a big circle, or just marvel at how cool it looks. No previous parachute experience necessary. Free! RSVP here if you want.
Christie Pits Park (Southeast), 750 Bloor St W
Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators
Mon June 16, 6:00p.m.-11:00p.m.
📅Team Up Activated
Come join us at Invictus Game Station and play Marvel Rivals in 6v6 in-person e-sports style tournaments. From the setups to the prizes, meet new players and remember the power that games and people have together! With great raffle prizes from our sponsors BEACN, WakeWater & with your ticket, a chance to win a Xbox Series S! Buy tickets and more info here.
Invictus Game Station, 558 Yonge St
Community Game Enthusiasts ESports Game Curious Video Game Wellness & Anti-Isolation Event
Mon June 16, 7:00p.m.-8:30p.m.
The Sound of Soft Rains' New Sci-Fi Game
Join the Soft Rains team for a behind-the-scenes look at the music of Soft Rains’ first game, a first-person sci-fi exploration game. Composer Grej and Audio Director Michelle Hwu will guide you through the game's sonic world with live demos, track previews, and a look at the music pipeline. Includes a Q&A to close the session. Free with registration.
Canadian Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph St.
Industry Community Game Enthusiasts NextGen Creators Game Creators Music industry
Mon June 16, 7:00p.m.-11:00p.m.
📅IGDA Game Programmers Roundtable
Join us for an IGDA Toronto Roundtable at George Brown College with veteran game programmers from studios big and small. We will discuss their different career paths, how company size impacts their experience, tips and advice for newcomers, and more. After, we will go to the Great Lakes Brewpub for our traditional Meet & Mingle. Free, more info here.
George Brown College, 3 Lower Jarvis St.
Industry Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators
Tue June 17, 11:00a.m.-6:00p.m.
📅SUNCHASER
People take turns flying MS Flight Simulator where you chase the sun as it sets. They will have to make constant speed adjustments to keep the top edge of the sun just above the horizon. Everything is projected on the walls around you so you get to bask in a sunset that lasts hours instead of minutes. Come earlier to fly the plane, or catch the Closing Sunsetter Gathering hosted by artist Sherwin Tjia between 4-6pm. Free!
Community Game Enthusiasts people who love sunsets
Tue June 17, 4:00p.m.-8:30p.m.
📅Portable Preservation
Join the Broken Games Collective for a nostalgic showcase of portable videogames! Snap a pic at the Game Boy Camera photobooth, try a rare Game Boy sewing machine, and explore hidden gems from gaming history. Best of all, it’s free as part of ROM's Third Tuesday Nights Free monthly program. Info on how to book your free ticket here.
Royal Ontario Museum, Earth Rangers Studio, Schad Gallery of Biodiversity, Level 2
Academics Community Game Enthusiasts Game Curious Game Creators General Public (ROM Visitors)
Tue June 17, 7:00p.m.-11:00p.m.
📅Bonus Stage
Centred around micro talks given by local community members which serve the dual purpose of being informative and a conversation starter, Bonus Stage is a long-running monthly social that gives people a space to mingle and get to know new people. This month gameplay designer Osama Dorias (ex-Blizzard, Warner Brothers, Ubisoft, Gameloft and co-host of The Habibis) is visiting from Montreal to give an inspiring talk about failure. Free, info here.
Community Game Creators Students
Tue June 17, 8:00p.m.-11:00p.m.
📅Seriously Fun: Showcase & Social hosted by Wero
Interested in games being used for educational, instructive or political purposes? Join our community of serious game enthusiasts and developers as we gather for a free mini-showcase highlighting innovative projects and fostering a casual exchange of ideas, insights, and camaraderie. If you’d like to showcase your project, tell us in the registration. Free with registration.
Danu Social House, 1237 Queen St W
Academics Industry Community Game Enthusiasts Serious Games Developers
Wed June 18, 7:00p.m.-11:00p.m.
📅Toronto Games Week Closing Party
Close out a playful week in the artsy hub that is 401 Richmond. Enjoy some music, pour some libations, and check out the last day of the week-long installation of OMNIVOX: a magical cube pulsing with 4,096 fully addressable LEDs and featuring a custom playful experience designed by Callum Hay, Sara Vinten, and Jessica Mak. Co-presented by Trinity Square Video. Free with registration.
Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond St W #121
Industry Community Game Enthusiasts Game Creators
