Another trip to Wellington booked: my youngest child made into the interview stage of their application to Toi Whakaari drama school!!

That's a wrap on #NZGDC 2025! 🥳 We had such a wonderful time reconnecting with our industry community and soaking up as much wisdom as we could from the talks we attended. Lastly, we want to extend a huge thank you to the @nzgda.bsky.social and volunteer team for making this event happen! 👏

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid

I will be proud when this guy is voted out

That’s a wrap! NZGDC is over for another year and I think this one was the best one yet 🩷🩷🩷 See you all next year IN AUCKLAND!!! #nzgdc2025 #nzgdc2026

So super proud of my esteemed colleague Sarah today—it was hard to believe it was her first time giving a talk at a conference, she spoke with such confidence and humour!❤️🤩 Looking forward to next year’s talk!!

Great news from the NZ game development sector rebate folks!

Lesson 1 of running a studio is that the team's culture is the responsibility of the leaders of the studio I strongly agree with this! How people with power act models the behaviour for those they lead. Research has shown this over and over. #gamedev

The big announcement is that funding via @nz-code.nz funding is going to be doubled! #gamedev

PSA tutorial! You have to see this🧑‍🎓 👉 store.steampowered.com/sale/NZGames... 🔊🔊🔊 #indiegames #MadeInNZ #NewZealand #NZGames

The Made in New Zealand Steam Sale is back for 2025! 🤩 We're so excited to have 'Before We Leave' and our upcoming 'Beyond These Stars' featured alongside so many wonderful NZ-made titles 🧡 Check it out! store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...

We're hiring a part-time Community Manager! We'd love a local to join our studio, but remote work (from a compatible time zone) is fine for the right person. www.balancingmonkeygames.com/articles/wer...

If you're okay with doing remote work to what is effectively Pitcairn Island, we are starting to look for a game designer at Deep Field, creators of beloved title Abiotic Factor.

CODE is very pleased to announce Niberspace Ltd. is the first team to be awarded the Service Start, a specialist, on demand grant around supporting service businesses in game development. www.nz-code.nz/post/code-an...

How much more do you need, world governments, to accept that it is genocide in Gaza and you have a legal responsibility to stop it? Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, concludes UN commission of inquiry - latest updates www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It's Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori - Māori Language Week! ❤️🖤 This week isn't just a celebration, it's an important reminder of the great taonga Te Reo is to all of us. We're all on our journeys to learn more. Some of us are beginning, some are reconnecting; but every step counts! #tewikiotereomāori

I support these priests who have chained themselves in front of electorate offices to call for sanctions against Israel. Public action in the cause of compassion and justice should be a frequent part of a Christian leader's work. It was a frequent part of Christ's. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In just 10 days we’ll reveal the 2025 Industry Stats! Last year we hit: 💰 $548m in earnings 👩‍💻 1,097 employees 📈 26% growth — more than 10x the global rate NZ’s game development is strong and stable, be there to hear Minister Reti announce the 2025 industry stats at NZGDC. 🎉

OUR DICTION WAS GOOD. JUDY BELLINGHAM SAID OUR DICTION WAS GOOD. I can die happy www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Really pissed off at Instagram’s Meta AI rn for trying to tell me the All Blacks are in the semifinals of the World Cup. Black Ferns was right there in the first image 😡😡😡😡 AI is sexist. Meta is sexist.

I voted! www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Our upcoming game: Teeto! 🏃‍♂️ Explore & platform through vibrant worlds 🤝 Team up for 2P couch co-op action 🦜 Complete quests & challenges for friends 👶 Find & rescue all the different Baby Michaels 👚 ADORABLE COSTUMES! #indiegame #gamedev

"Capitalism Attacks Education Because Education Does Not Produce Quick Profit" Poster issued at the time of the occupation by students of the Central School of Art and Design, London, in protest against higher fees. 1977. Ref E.928-1977, V & A Museum.

SIGNED! With Super Rare Originals, no less! 🎉AND a new Steam demo to celebrate! 🥳

I'm almost at 1000 followers! If I get to 1000, I will write a fugue on any melody you choose. Suggest your melody below and let's see if we can boost this post to the moon 🌜 Hey maybe you'll get a sweet contrapuntal masterpiece out of it! My fugues sound like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1T...

it costs $0.00 to support a full-time indie dev 🥹 #indiegame #gamedev

aw hell yeah

LAST CHANCE! 📢📢📢 Standard Ticket Pricing for NZGDC 2025 close at 11:59pm tonight! Get yours at: https://www.nzgdc.com/

I’m HOME

I have now interacted with the NZ healthcare system a few times since I have been back. Both for myself & my kids. It's clear the people working in it care & working hard It's also clear it is massively under resourced & near collapse The next government must invest heavily in it to save it

Have you figured out what talks you're going to yet for #NZGDC? Consider signing up for my free workshop on DIY event organizing on Friday 26 Sept at 3:20pm! ✂️ It's a free workshop for attendees, limited to 30 people, more deets & sign up link here: www.nzgdc.com/programme#ca...

It’s really interesting seeing different countries’ priorities on entry into the country. England: you are on CCTV, and if you leave your bags unattended, they will be destroyed. Singapore: if you bring in any drugs you could face the death penalty. NZ: if you brought in any meat, chuck it out

This is one of the nicest articles I’ve read about our stuff, bar none. It’s so lovely to feel seen and appreciated like this!

We arrived at the airport over four hours early… and now our flight has been delayed an hour and a quarter 🙃

It seems to be a UK thing that you stand up and get ready to get off your bus or train well before you get to your stop. Also, you get an orange traffic light under the red one just before it turns green. My conclusion is that British politeness has conveniently evolved into efficiency

I’ve talked many times about how I love travel, getting in a car and watching the scenery change. What I didn’t realise is that this seems to be a specifically New Zealand thing. All the parts of Germany, France and England I’ve been through so far basically look like the most boring parts of Otago.

On the train from London to Edinburgh listening to the people sitting around us. Is there anything cuter than a tiny child with a Scottish accent?? 🥰🥰

I mention having arthritis online and the next time I open instagram there’s an ad for a retirement village. The worst thing about being diagnosed with arthritis at 36 was going to look for mobility aids online (ie walking sticks) and only seeing elderly people in all the ads 😭 Oh, that and…

London would be way more fun the arthritis in my foot wasn’t flaring excruciatingly thanks to the change in weather

Sam went for a walk while I had a nap

We've been quiet over the last week but it was an absolutely huge week with Gamescom, Representing Games and everything that surrounds that. We haven't seen an appetite for our fine NZ product like that since the pandemic! #gamescom

Turns out we’re just about as far from home as it’s possible to be

I’m feeling much more relaxed now we’re on the train and most people are speaking French rather than German. My French is much much better than my German, it turns out lol

Complete nightmare getting on our train. Train is just about to arrive when hotel rings. They’ve found my wallet. Sam sprints back to get it. Train arrives while he’s gone. Thank God he makes it back in time. We get onto train. Stow luggage on third try. There is no seat 107. We sit and hope 🤞

It's the very last day of #Gamescom2025 and of the #Adaptory arcade booth here in Köln! This is your last chance to come play our Gamescom demo and meet some of the team, exclusively at #IndieArenaBooth Hall 10.2 booth A3. 💕

If I want to travel more when I’m an empty nester (possibly from next year!) I really need to spend more time walking at home. Most of this gamescom week my feet have just been flaming balloons of pain

We were one of the companies Lewis interviewed to write this article. • Yes, we want to make our second game more quickly, so we can support ourselves and not rely so much on external funding. • We will do this by scoping a much smaller game than Beyond These Stars. • Our AI policy is still …🧵

Actual conversion in the gelato shop near the Rhein just now: “two scoops of that one, please” “Two scoops…in your HANNDD???” The sass German customer service is something else

Gamescom day 2 is done and I have blisters. We found the Hooded Horse stall and met our two closest contact from there, Matthias and Joe. It was a very people-ful day!

Why do police sirens in Cologne sound like bagpipes? Some even change key, so bizarre