This positive feedback is what prompted Byrne to seriously start developing Achimostawinan Games, which is Indigenous-owned, but more than that Byrne strives to have a team that is made up of at least 51% Indigenous staff.

Prototype, Meagan didn’t think anything of putting it online but the reaction was immediate and overwhelming: the world wanted to know more. The brainchild of Âpihtawikosisân (Métis) game designer Meagan Byrne and Maliseet animator Tara Miller, Hill Agency was conceived as PURITY&decay during 2017 as an exploration of what a world on the edge of freedom from colonial oppression might look like. That may sound like a textbook noir story, but this game has a twist: it’s a wholly Indigenous-imagined future. Interview witnesses and suspects, collect evidence, sort out what’s important from the red herrings, compile your case and make your accusations. It’s up to you to find out who the real murderer is. Her sister has been murdered and the cops are useless. Life is all missing kids and cheating spouses until a dame from the Risen- City barges in and changes your life. working in the slums of one of the last major cities in North America.

The year is 2262 and you’re, Meeygun Hill, a tough as nails P.I. The Kickstarter project, titled Hill Agency: BARK&byte, will be this company’s first foray into crowdfunding which is fitting as this Hill Agency is also their first major game as a company. Indigenous owned and operated video game company Achimostawinan Games to launch their first Kickstarter in June 2019 for their newest video game Hill Agency.

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