Otis Perrick has lived through the various ups and downs of Vancouver’s game-development sector. He worked in the game-publishing department of Electronic Arts as the company grew its presence in the Lower Mainland during the early years of the 21st century. He witnessed firsthand as a number of studios in the area made great games and were then acquired by large publishing operations. For example, Barking Dog became Rockstar Vancouver, Black Box became part of EA, Propaganda joined Disney Interactive, Radical was bought by Activision, and Relic, now a Sega company, was originally acquired by THQ. Many of these developers no longer exist.

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