To make great games you need three things:

• creative minds
• innovative technology
• supportive government

Ontario has all that – in an ideal environment for work and play. That's why premier developer/publishers like Capcom and Koei have their North American production centres in Ontario. And it's why brilliant home-grown companies like Artech Studio, Magmic Games, Silicon Knights, Digital Extremes and March Entertainment are thriving here.

If you're passionate about developing digital games, there's no better place to be than Ontario.

Talent is at the heart of digital game development and production and Ontario is recognized worldwide for its superlative artists, designers, animators and programmers.

• Institutions like Sheridan College, Seneca College, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, the University of Toronto, McMaster University and the University of Waterloo are renowned for producing talented grads in interactive digital media, the arts, music and computer science.

• Also turning out highly skilled and creative graduates are specialty schools like the Ontario College of Art and Design, the fourth largest school of its kind in North America, and the Royal Conservatory of Music.

• We also welcome talent from abroad and make it easy for companies to transfer key staff by taking advantage of Canada's intra-company transfer work permit.

With games constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation, developers rely on the latest in technology – and Ontario has it.

• Cost competitive state-of-the-art enhanced optical fibre is widespread – and we're also leaders in wireless communications.

• We excel at 3D software development. Side Effects Software (known for Houdini) and AutoDesk (known for Maya), used by all the big Hollywood producers for special effects, began in Toronto.

• AMD (which acquired world-leading Toronto-based ATI Technologies) is behind the latest graphics processors and motherboard chipsets that deliver essential quality, features and high-end graphics.

• We have a comprehensive motion capture complex and a new media complex that will boast the largest sound stage in North America.