Apocablyss Studios Inc. is a Canadian game development and animation studio founded by Paloma Dawkins. We focus on making fun, magical games and environments for people to dream within.
Our team’s ability to create high-quality content on multiple platforms has led large institutions and companies to seek Apocablyss’ creative and technical team to develop their content. Since 2016 our core team have developed weird and wonderful VR, and game projects alike for clients such as the National Film Board of Canada, The Manchester International Festival and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Paloma Dawkins :: Canadian/Mexican game designer, animator, creator
Paloma Dawkins has designed six major games/digital experiences including: Oceanarium (beta), Songs of the Lost, Museum of Symmetry, Palmystery, Alea, Gardenarium.
Dawkins’ games are praised for being digital spaces that celebrate natural life and rhythms. The worlds and spaces she creates in her games incite creative thinking and wonder, and help expand the medium in a time of great innovation. Dawkins’ games and VR experiences carry on these themes and invite us to be inspired by otherworldly scenes and scenarios, hypnotizing sounds and visual details, trippy patterns, quirky characters and cosmic poetry.
Dawkins won awards at the Canadian Screen Academy Awards, Fantasia, FIVARS, Cinekid, NUMIX, and North Bend Festival, and exhibited at Festivals, Museums and Galleries around the world including Siggraph, MIF, V&A, MAAM, LikeLike, Garage Museum, Babycastles, and many more
www.palomadawkins.com
palgal.itch.io
Ashley Opheim :: Canadian/Mexican producer, writer, creator
Ashley Obscura is a Mexican-Canadian poet, writer, managing editor and publisher whose work spans the spectrum from cosmic tweets and visually stimulating poetry to ambient sound art. She is the screenwriter of three video games, the author of two poetry collections and the founder and managing editor of Metatron Press. Metatron Press is a queer feminist publisher that focuses on physical and digital publications as well as events and author management. She has had her poetry translated and anthologized in seven countries and has performed extensively throughout Latin and North America. Her work values positivity and celebration, with a bend toward sexy metaphysics and pop mysticism.
Cody Walker :: nonbinary programmer, researcher
Cody Walker is a game developer and a PhD student in the Humanities at Concordia University. They hold a Master of Arts in English (specializing in creative writing) from Concordia University, and a BA in English Literature from McGill university. They live in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. Their interest in posthuman writing practices includes the study of machine learning, media history, and media archaeology.
Camille Verreault :: animator, concept artist
Camille Verreault is a director, animator and illustrator born in Sherbrooke (Qc, Canada) and based in Montreal who recently graduated in Film animation at Concordia University. She uses a delicate and sensible approach throughout her work while often exploring themes such as relationships, childhood, nature, and memory. Her latest film Inner Path was shown in a couple of festivals, was nominated, and even received a special mention at the Concordia film festival in 2021.
Aya Avalon :: nonbinary artist, animator
Aya Avalon is an intermedia artist who engages in art therapy practices for fun interactive journeys. Their main goal is to make healing art to promote learning and feeling.. Their games are designed as feel-good tool-kits for coping and strengthening mental health. They do this by encouraging playfulness in their art. They believe the interactive experience of a simulation can be regenerating to people. As it can refresh the mind and soul by meditative solutions. Avalon wants to bring a grounding feeling within their fantasy lands to create hope instead of just an escape from reality. They want participants to face their inner self and see how strong they really are to survive our topsy-turvy world.
Stephan Dubreuil :: Producer
Stephan Dubreuil is co-founder of the Montreal talent boutique, Woolf+Lapin. Since 2001, he has overseen projects in the TV, Film, Youtube and VR spaces for clients as diverse as Nike, Iggy Pop, LG, Adidas, DisneyPixar, Microsoft, Attractions, Procter and Gamble, Tony Hawk, Ford, Google...
HIRING
We are currently looking for exceptionally creative people that want to work with like-minded individuals that are dedicated to consciously making the world a better place with and through art.
Please send your CV and a little bit about yourself and your skills to welcome(at)apocablyss.com