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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How do you navigate a weak job market while keeping your sense of self and purpose intact? I explore one way here. #indigenous #jobs #hiring #employment www.linkedin.com/pulse/naviga...

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Navigating a Weak Market with Indigenous Values

New Zealand’s job market is bad. Unemployment reached 5.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What life looks like right now: Day job: Can you save us $90m in 2 weeks? Night job: Can you run a video game dev company and be a new dad? Sure. No problem. I'll sleep later. #startuplife

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Happy 250th Birthday, USA. www.instagram.com/p/DaY3lL0EnP...

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Happy to announce the birth of my son Baby Rain. He was born on #starwars day. Pretty fitting for an emerging game dev dad. Studio has been trucking along without me just fine. Will resume work shortly. #newborn

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is a picture of one of our actual cats. In an actual sweater. On my treadmill. AI did turn it into a short film. Whatever. This car was free until we moved to NZ. Now it’s a $5000 cat. #ai #catpics #cats

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The clock is officially ticking. I'm pretty sure I should be absolutely terrified. #parenthood #newborn

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

History has taught us this lesson before. I didn’t found an indigenous game studio to grandstand on purity while someone else gets to write the stories because they cranked them out faster. Let’s level the playing field. #ai #genai #gamedev #indiedev #representationmatters #indiegenous #equality

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

What if I told you that my company was giving artists, technologists ,and creatives jobs doing what they love? And we were doing it by using AI? What if I told you this was happening right now? What if I told you these people were indigenous? #ai #gamedev #indiedev #videogames #startuplife

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sad news in game development. This is a reminder that what's going on behind the screen is something nobody is aware of. We should be kinder to each other than what we are. Our disagreements online have the potential to create chaos in the real world.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I saw this somewhere else and thought it was worth resharing. AI has been around for a long time. We just called it different things. Smart. Procedural. Dynamic. Agents change the pipeline, but don’t replace it. Studios replace it. Put the anger where it belongs. #ai #gamedev #indiedev #games

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

When people read less, they understand less history. When you don’t know history, you can’t learn the lessons from it. This causes a decline in critical thinking, and a rise in mass hysteria and groupthink. This is a global issue. #ai #education #criticalthinking www.forbes.com/sites/vibhas...

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Gen Z Is Reading Less. What That Means In The Age Of Ready Answers

Gen Z reads less as AI answers more. What that means for imagination, learning, and the future workforce

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

History teaches us repeatedly that objecting to a new technology doesn’t change the impact of its arrival. AI isn’t “good” at art. Real human art will become more valuable because AI lowers the entry point, making more people use art and increasing the value of well made work. #ai #creativity

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Tumeke Studio @tumekestudio.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We’ve been quiet while building the foundations. Now it’s time to start showing it. The first in-game footage from Errata is live. Systems are up, the world is now being populated. Watch here: youtu.be/maRv4vWExJw?... #gamedev #indiedev #mmorpg #unrealengine #gaming #indiegame #openworld

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Errata Intro

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Fuck ICE. Fuck JD Vance. And if you support their bullshit, fuck you.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Please pardon any handle issues over the next few days. I'm updating DNS providers.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Amazon has deployed it's 1 millionth service robot today. These robots have replaced people working at facilities for years, all powered by AI. So why are we still shopping at Amazon? Aren't they "stealing" jobs from actual workers? Or are we just looking the other way when it's convenient? #ai

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I launched @tumekestudio.com in May thinking, “Let’s see if this world has legs.” Until then it only existed in home-run tabletop RPGs at my dining room. Since then I’ve: 📣 Presented it dozens of times 🤝 Been approached by young people 😮 Watched them light up over it How cool is that? #indiedev

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a brown bear is standing on its hind legs in a field and says `` thank you beary much '' .

ALT: a brown bear is standing on its hind legs in a field and says `` thank you beary much '' .

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Rubber duck Daesh. Now with exuberance.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This is what’s wrong with AI. AI buddies are predatory. I don’t want to talk to my dead baby, Elvis, or Bigfoot. I don’t need a robot friend. AI has no idea what they might think, it’s just a messed up way to take advantage of people who are compromised. #ai #consumerprotection www.2wai.ai

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2wai: Connect With AI Avatars

Welcome to 2wai, where human connection is reimagined in the age of AI. We are the world’s first social app for AI avatars of real humans. Jump into safe, secure, and immersive experiences as you chat...

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Took this source picture at The Charleston at Bremerton, WA back in 2015. Totally worth saving it.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Funny how we complain about how destructive AI is to the environment from our resource intensive iPhones while watching our environmentally destructive TVs that produce absolutely nothing of value. Is it really about the environment, or are we just using the planet as a political bludgeon?

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Meanwhile in New Zealand colonial descendants claim they are indigenous too, Māori unemployment is double the national average, with many university qualified graduates going unemployed not for months, but for years.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Groks 6 second AI videos aren't perfect... but they can still be fun and with a little help from Premiere, you can get a nifty result. This one is my wife and I. We took an American Gothic picture during lockdown. Grok provided the video conversion. #throwbackthursday #streetfighter #grok #ai

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This is interesting. As a business owner I am constantly looking for ways to make my company a better experience for staff. Things like insurance, dental, gym memberships, and vision have all been investigated. Weight management is something I would happily support.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Are Blueskys content policies enforce fairly? This AM my business account @tumekestudio.com was hit with a Spam accusation. We are a growing MMO studio, our content is exclusively about online games. During that time we were hit with unsolicited follows from porn and politics. Double standard?

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The level of right wing spam Twitler sends its accounts by default is horrific. I have no interest in MAGA clowns or their politics, but that platform is force feeding it to me as a business owner and inspiring me to not log in. Horrible approach.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Tarisland has shut down, and nobody seems to have noticed. That's the problem with MMOs today, in my opinion. For 20 years the same formula has been copied. We've already played the game. They all look the same at this point. What we're getting now are reskins of WoW. youtu.be/RcuetRaTedA?...

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Tarisland | Devs Killing Their Own Game...

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

@raphkoster.bsky.social along with Ted Castronova, are probably the smartest people in online game development. Yet their ideas have been regularly sidelined in favor of more extractive game mechanics that don't necessarily create fun and reward economic activity so much as create repetition.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This was nice to see. We’re trying to create a product that is both fun and allows for a meaningful way to experience culture and human perspectives not as a tourist, but as a participant in allegory.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

This is important because indigenous people are more than just a flavor pack you can bolt on to whatever product you choose. They are real people, with real perspectives. Flattening them into convenient tropes is exploitative.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Honestly, what do people expect when they pay workers and contractors below market wages? NZ wages are 30% below international averages for the same work. You get what you pay for. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Sold-off Wellington town hall furniture still had value - restorer

"Somebody has just taken it upon themselves to just empty out the storage facility just because they can," says an antique furniture restorer.

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The issue here is one where the government is taking land away from an indigenous authority that has held claim to it. This is an arbitrary act by a colonial power exercising colonial authority. Full stop. #maori #indigenous #newzealand #representationmatters #colonization

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Edward Stanaway @edwardstanaway.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Two scoops. Not one. Who only gets one scoop of this ice cream? The lovely, lovely ice cream. Tastes great!

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