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New job opportunities have just been added to the NZGDA Jobs Board! 🎉  Your dream job could be waiting for you!

Get ready to watch The Game Awards 2024!  Its only 13 hours away (give or take) and there are lots of ways to watch - YouTube, X, Facebook Live, Instgram, TikTok (just to name a few) - pick your platform and enjoy! 

I'm delighted to be joining the NZ Game Developers Association as an elected board member in 2025. As a lifelong gamer, I've been following the incredible success stories and rapid growth in local game development companies with a lot of interest (and spent many hours playing Dredge while I was on parental leave last year!). Looking forward to supporting our members to keep making great games in Aotearoa.

Grab a coffee and join Joy and the team from NZ On Air to find out all you need to know about how to apply (or re-apply) for the GDSR in 2025!

If you missed it and wanted to catch up - the NZGDA AGM and minutes are now now available.  You can find links to both and learn a little about our newly elected Board Members on our website here

New NZGDA Member benefit thanks to Hnry!  Check out this and other great member benefits and resources in the NZGDA Member Hub here

Don't miss it!   Click here to register

"Project Mix" made it to the top 15 most wishlisted "VR Only" games on Steam!! It's crazy to see Project Mix gaining traction in the VR gaming space even at this early stage, on the same list as other highly anticipated VR titles🤯 FYI, we do intend to make a non-VR version in the future so as many people can experience the IP we're building as possible.(we're also working a Meta Quest demo) Can't wait to show off more of what we've been cooking up👨🍳

Lessgoooooooooo............................... I was delighted to see so many more women in the NZGDA AGM today, and I'm looking forward to working with the refreshed board from the start of next year. Thanks Carl Leducq for an excellent meeting, and Joy Keene, Gina Chong, Lance Burgess, Elissa Snowball and everyone else for the hard work you all put in. Stacey Wood I'm looking forward to working with you! :)

I had the pleasure of working with Deep Field Games from quite early in their journey and while this fireside chat is still freely available, I'd urge early career indie gamedevs to watch it. Or later career gamedevs if you're still effectively new to running your own business. One- it's super fun as these two gentlemen sit there and have misadventures with their bubble pipes. Secondly- Henry goes a lot into the early decisions Deep Field came to when choosing a product to build, building community, picking events to attend, to choosing a publisher, plus advice on remote studio life. As Henry puts it they don't come from the "Trust Me Bro" school of gamedev. When you look at the strategy the team employed, the creative vision and drive of Geoff (Zag) Keene and the measured approaches from Kate Colvin in production and QA and Crisscrossgal building community, it really does highlight how they set Abiotic Factor up for success in a very practical way.