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game dev in Aotearoa NZ

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Penguin Colony' - Official Trailer | Game Devs of Color Expo 2026 youtu.be/nteWdRUh_vo
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tris - Brush Burial @knifedemonsoftware.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
finished another level today. big ol thing. goes places. 54 enemies to kill for the domination coin. couple dozen dialogue interactions with sigg and you get a random one every time. a little less 'freedom' than the usual fare but still offering some clever backdoor play. runs well too
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Samurai Unicorn @samuni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OPENING ACT demo is LIVE! Big update with new lighting, story sections, and the first look at the playable hub area. There's a whole bunch of smaller fixes to make the experience better on controller as well as some extra surprises waiting for you. Find out how to get access below!
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if you’ll be here for #NZGDC come roll thru!! I’ll be running an IRL #ManifestoJam and I’m even bringing a door to nail your manifestoes onto
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WISHLIST GO PHISH ON STEAM | Cosmic Soup Games @cosmicsoupgames.com · 26/09/2026
In GO PHISH, your landlord sometimes stops by to intimidate you... #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #indiedev #roguelites #deckbuilders
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026
33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.
The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.
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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A tester found a glitch where you could walk underwater. surreal
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Julien Eveillé @pataloon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey friends! I'm probably gonna have some extra time for design freelance work (or more?). My career: - LD at Arkane Lyon for almost 8 years Dishonored IP, DEATHLOOP, Marvel's Blade. - LD at Crytek for 2 years Crysis 4, HUNT: SHOWDOWN. - Shipped THRESHOLD as a solo dev.
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Making Night Shift: 1999 @winterschloss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m excited to announce that Night Shift: 1999 is part of the MIGW Showcase which you can go and see during your visit to ACMI on Sunday 11 October! Go check out the full list of wonderful games, all made with a human touch here: gamesweek.melbourne/games-week-s... [ #migw #acmi #indiegames #vn ]
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Jon, from Videogames @desplesda.net · 23/09/2026
Unity invited Yarn Spinner to be part of their Autumn Sale! We explained that we can’t because it’s spring here, but they said “do you want us to promote you or not” and we said “oh fine I guess” Anyway: get us at 50% off and help support development of the world’s greatest narrative tools!
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Yarn Spinner+ for Unity, the friendly dialogue and narrative tool | Behavior AI | Unity Asset Store
Get the Yarn Spinner+ for Unity, the friendly dialogue and narrative tool package from Yarn Spinner and speed up your game development process. Find this & other Behavior AI options on the Unity Asset...
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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Watched THE APPOINTMENT (1982) and it made my skin crawl. The slowest of slow-burn horror films, but suffused in mesmerising nightmare logic and imagery. Very much Robert Aickman-core cinema. You know how it'll end, but it's like standing in the road and seeing a truck bearing down on you.
A fallen watch in the grass. the back says MY DEAR DADDY, ALWAYS, LOVE JOANNEthe back of a red-headed girl's hair in a green path in the woodsA car on the edge of a roadside cliff, supernaturally standing on its nosea bouqet of roses on a table, with several fallen petals.
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Rubeki Games 🛩️The Hollowing Demo Live!🛩️ @rubeki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
✈️Just announced in the PC Gaming Show✈️  The Hollowing is an atmospheric first-person horror flight sim Your job is to maintain communications towers at various airports and outposts in the Megastructure FREE DEMO OUT NOW!! link below 👇
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grill la grill @wanderlustin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
death is only the start. BITTER FRUIT is out now on itch, kobo, and (for pre-order on) amazon! if you want a self-indulgent book about death, mechs, and agonising intimacy, check it out! bitter-fruit.carrd.co
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GP @mousefountain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mound lord's settlement.
Perspective view, 3D scene of a low fi castle town with low saturation stony textures and cylindrical buildings with metal details.
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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Roman Sands RE:Build review: A unique and obliterating blend of resort sim, engineering horror and alchemic ritual bit.ly/4rgN75U
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Roman Sands RE:Build review: A unique and obliterating blend of resort sim, engineering horror and alchemic ritual
Roman Sands is a brilliantly cracked, witty and imaginative "service industry adventure" that consists of two very different games in a collapsing orbit.
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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Album Cover for the soundtrack
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jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Roman Sands RE:Build is out. After so many years, you can finally play our labour of love. It's deranged, it goes SO MANY PLACES, it probably shouldn't exist, and I've no idea if you're going to like it or not but that ain't the point. Roman Sands RE:Build. store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/...
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A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
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bsg_joel 🔜 NZGDC 🔜 PAX @bsg-joel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
we also took a second screenshot of our next game
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Taffer King @tafferking451.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The gardens encircle the front and sides of the bank, connecting to the old monastery cloister, refectory and chapel. The constables have converted some areas - some say you can hear their prisoners from the kitchen. #gloomwood #screenshotsaturday
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the Carrie / ADC_AX @adc-ax.itch.io · 06/09/2026
map making
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GP @mousefountain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
home island
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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our publisher asked us to create a patch for people who worked on Penguin Colony
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crisp @stillcrisp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
bandcamp friday tomorrow!!! be sure to pick up some of my soundtracks!!! :)))
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
almost done with my rooftops jam map! got bored of pasting windows onto houses so I started pasting faces, maybe it's just my thing I do now
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the Carrie / ADC_AX @adc-ax.itch.io · 26/08/2026
VHOLUME fan art / variations on the theme
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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our new trailer for Penguin Colony youtu.be/LRJ_Y00sngM?...
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Penguin Colony | Pixel Arcadia Trailer
YouTube video by Fellow Traveller
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Taffer King @tafferking451.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The city aristocracy converted much of the grounds of an old monastery to build their grand bank, but some of the original structures and tunnels remain on the premises. What could they be hiding? #gloomwood #screenshotsaturday
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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18/08/2026
Oh wow I LOVE how this looks
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James Wragg @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Friendly reminder that we have some incredible top tier talent working on Entropy - @decassette.bsky.social is just casually like 'ig I'll just do a quick masterpiece to say the game is out on the gram'...
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So stoked that Entropy, from the Dread Delusion folks, is out in early access. Realis fans, if you loved @vor-bokor.bsky.social and @decassette.bsky.social's work in the book, definitely check it out. store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/...
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Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Assemble your party of mercenaries and forge your own path towards an expedition into hell to stop the demonic incursion. Choices you ma...
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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I wrote a post about how I love BSP/brush mapping: blendogames.com/news/post/20...
a screenshot of the DarkRadiant level editor, showing a level from the game Skin Deep
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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
huge news! TEN BEAUTIFUL POSTCARDS by thecatamites (Anthology Of The Killer) is now on steam the first game that made me realise ‘wait- maybe I could make a game’ it expresses so much without challenge or even collision 💫 store.steampowered.com/app/4916370/...
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Bozó Attila Bertold - METAXIA @atis1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
concept for a cutscene in METAXIA #metaxiagame #concepart #digitalart
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the Carrie / ADC_AX @adc-ax.itch.io · 15/08/2026
this week's transmission: cold-cathode gas discharge lit signage, neighborhood construction efforts
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WISHLIST GO PHISH ON STEAM | Cosmic Soup Games @cosmicsoupgames.com · 15/08/2026
We've been doing an environment art pass on the dingy small apartment you live in in GO PHISH. As your in-game stress climbs the room itself shrinks, leaving less and less room for your life in it :( #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiedev
an in-development screenshot from GO PHISH, it shows a small apartment with one room. There is a bed, a freestanding wardrobe,  a fridge, and a desk with a laptop and a lamp on it. There is a ceiling fan on a ceiling that is too short to be comfortable.
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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I enjoyed Metal Garden a lot -- really lovely level design, reminded me of Source engine + Halo and now has a dev commentary mode too! Great stuff 👍👍
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Nicola Acler @laconicaler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
New key visual for LAMINA BRUISE
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Michel Ziegler @dasmirts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Looking for a hideout in the worst town
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Michel Ziegler @dasmirts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Interior decorator? His apartment looked like shit!
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
workin on a quake map for rooftops jam
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Auckland Makes Games 🎮 @aucklandmakes.games · 07/08/2026
Join Robert Yang to write manifestos for games, art, life... and for each other! Markers and paper provided. GET YOUR TICKETS ➡️ events.humanitix.com/wireframe-pr...
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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is making the big neon PONTYPOOL sign in my brain light up over and over, can't wait
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Stuffed Wombat @stuffedwomb.at · 06/08/2026
MARBLE SOULS coming 2026 wishlist now - store.steampowered.com/app/4531440/...
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GamesNight 🔜 PAX AUS @gamesnight.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cosmic horror in Antarctica? Penguin Colony, developed by @origamedigital.bsky.social and published by @fellowtraveller.games, puts you on the ice, seeing this mystery through a penguin's eyes. We spoke to Tali about their inspirations and what makes this cosmic horror take different. #cosmichorror
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Penguin Colony Interview - Bringing Cosmic Horror to the Antarctic
Penguin Colony is the next game developed by ORIGAME DIGITAL and published by Fellow Traveller. Penguin Colony swaps Tauranga rooftops from its previous game, Umurangi Generation…
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david (spinning voices) @spinningvoices.com · 03/08/2026
was reminded by the recent boom in undersea horror of this game that @haraiva.bsky.social made. just fantastic dominoclub.itch.io/gutless
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GUTLESS by DOMINO CLUB, haraiva
hadopelagic false light
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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Fantastic game - especially to go in blind on
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Bozó Attila Bertold - METAXIA @atis1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
time observatory / időobszervatórium #metaxiagame #gamedev #gamemaker
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💛 Paige Wilson💛 @neosolarius.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
if you're looking for THE indie event of NZGDC week, come thru to wireframe communion. It's gonna be WEIRD, and only costs 5 bucks!! and aggro crab is sponsoring it!!! indies supporting indies <3
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Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐️ by Dead Teapot @deadteapot.games · 27/07/2026
We've been pretty quiet, finishing video games and such, but here's some cool stuff our friends have launched! @desktopexplorergame.com is AMAZING and also has a cute(?) mascot and well made puzzles. @eatpantgames.com also just launched and is simply delightful! Go check 'em out!
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Auckland Makes Games 🎮 @aucklandmakes.games · 26/07/2026
We are soooo excited to announce that Wireframe Presents: Communion lineup is CONFIRMED and that TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE! We'll be announcing the full lineup leading up to the event. Get your tickets now and head over to see a sneak peek ➡️ events.humanitix.com/wireframe-pr...
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