Video game design & development company in British Columbia — rooted in the East Kootenays & Columbia Valley.
Cirius Soft is a senior video game design and development company serving British Columbia studios and publishers across the East Kootenays and the Columbia Valley — from Invermere and Radium Hot Springs to Cranbrook, Kimberley, Fernie and Golden. Unreal Engine 5 and Unity 6 production, indie IP, live-service multiplayer, cinematics and full CMF / Creative BC / Telefilm-ready documentation.
Columbia Valley & East Kootenays studios.
- 01Invermere
- 02Radium Hot Springs
- 03Fairmont Hot Springs
- 04Cranbrook
- 05Kimberley
- 06Fernie
- 07Golden
- 08Sparwood
- 09Elkford
- 10Creston
Remote-first delivery with on-site sprints in Invermere, Cranbrook and other Columbia Valley hubs when production calls for it. BC-wide studios from Vancouver, Burnaby, Victoria and Kelowna welcome.
What we build for British Columbia game studios.
Nanite, Lumen, MetaHuman and Chaos pipelines for BC studios shipping cinematic-quality games on PC, console and cloud.
URP / HDRP, DOTS and Netcode for GameObjects — the right choice for East Kootenays indie teams shipping cross-platform.
Behavior trees, GOAP, encounter design, boss AI and combat feel — engineered so BC players stay in flow for hundreds of hours.
Dedicated servers, rollback, lockstep and client-authoritative hybrids. Photon, Mirror, EOS and custom transport layers.
Perforce / Git-LFS, build farms, automated testing, Steam and console cert pipelines built for small BC teams punching above weight.
In-engine sequencer cinematics, key art and launch trailers — the assets Canadian studios need for CMF, Telefilm and publisher pitches.
Genres and formats we ship in BC.
Canadian & BC funding, packaged the way panels expect.
We prepare production plans, budgets and deliverable schedules aligned to Creative BC's Interactive Fund criteria for British Columbia studios.
CMF Experimental Stream and Telefilm indie applications — we ship the design docs, prototypes and financial packages Canadian panels expect.
Documentation-friendly delivery so your BC studio can claim SR&ED and the Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit without a scramble at year-end.
Why an East Kootenays game studio partner.
The Columbia Valley is quietly one of BC's best places to make a game. Long winters, tight communities, cheap horsepower, and enough distance from Vancouver rent to actually finish a title — but close enough to publishers and Creative BC that a valley studio can still ship at national scale.
Being rooted in British Columbia means Pacific-time production, CAD budgeting, PIPA-aware data handling, and hands-on comfort with Creative BC, CMF, Telefilm and the BC IDMTC — the ingredients that let a mountain-town studio behave like a Vancouver one, without the burn rate.
Game development in British Columbia — common questions.
Do you work with video game studios based in the East Kootenays and Columbia Valley?
Yes. Cirius Soft is a Canada-wide game design and development company with dedicated capacity for British Columbia studios, including Invermere, Cranbrook, Fernie, Kimberley, Golden and Radium Hot Springs. We deliver remote-first with on-site sprints across the Columbia Valley as production requires.
What engines and platforms do you work in?
Unreal Engine 5 and Unity 6 are our primary engines. We ship to Steam, Epic, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android and cloud streaming platforms — with the pipeline, cert and QA work that each target actually needs.
Can you help with Creative BC, CMF or Telefilm funding applications?
Yes. We package production plans, budgets, prototypes and design documents aligned to Creative BC's Interactive Fund, CMF's Experimental Stream, Telefilm Canada indie envelopes, and the BC Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit.
How much does game development cost in British Columbia?
Vertical slices typically start at $60K–$150K; full production for a small indie title runs $250K–$1M+ depending on scope. Every Columbia Valley brief is scoped against outcomes, ship dates and BC studio realities before we quote.
Shipping a game from the Columbia Valley?
Tell us what you're making. Senior partner reply within one working day — Invermere / Pacific time.