Sponsored by Primo, Gameplanet's new video series looks at videogame development in New Zealand. How can aspiring developers get into the industry? How do you start a game studio in NZ? How do you get funding? Seeking answers, we went over to Titirangi to speak with Grinding Gear Games, who are working hard on their upcoming free-to-play action RPG, Path of Exile.
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Game Development in NZ - part 1: Grinding Gear Games
Cerebralfix are about to open an studio in Montreal
NZ gaming development going places.
If you haven't heard of them, they're a Christchurch based gaming company, specialsing mainly in iPhone and Facebook games (the biggest growing and most profitable sub-section of gaming atm)
Plug cuz my sister's boyfriend works for them lols.
Great to see other companies are going well as well. They are more gaming studios popping up in NZ now, it isn't just Sidhe anymore.
Protip: Design school grads should really look into employment in gaming design as it's growing in NZ.
Keen for this game, reminds me of some free fantasy game I played where you got washed up on the beach as well. That one was movement/turn based and had dice rolls for combat, but the world looks like it has a similar feel.
I like their idea that it's about you surviving and getting more powerful, rather than trying to save the world, something different.
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