New Zealand Game Developers Association
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The New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) was founded in 2001. It was formed to support the video game development industry in New Zealand
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The primary mission of the NZGDA is to build the New Zealand video game development industry into a preferred supplier of related products and services. It also facilitates communication for New Zealand game developers, and aims to create quality development, and business capabilities within New Zealand. Also the organisation seeks to promote game development as a career
path, and support game development education. The NZGDA organises monthly Game Developer Meetups in Auckland.
NZGDA members can be both commercial
game development studios or individuals. The current President of the organisation is Stephen Knightly, Managing Director of InGame.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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The primary mission of the NZGDA is to build the New Zealand video game development industry into a preferred supplier of related products and services. It also facilitates communication for New Zealand game developers, and aims to create quality development, and business capabilities within New Zealand. Also the organisation seeks to promote game development as a career
Career
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path, and support game development education. The NZGDA organises monthly Game Developer Meetups in Auckland.
NZGDA members can be both commercial
Commerce
While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
game development studios or individuals. The current President of the organisation is Stephen Knightly, Managing Director of InGame.
Members
- Blitz ResearchBlitz ResearchBlitz Research Ltd is an Auckland, New Zealand based company which currently produces 3 BASIC based programming languages. Founded in 2000 by Mark Sibly, the company's first product was the now obsolete Blitz Basic 2D, a PC version of the Amiga Blitz Basic. It was released the same year as the...
- Big Little Bang
- Cerebral FixCerebral FixCerebral Fix are an English thrash/death metal band formed in Birmingham in 1986. They became members of the UK thrash metal and death metal scenes through four albums, three of which were on major labels before finally disbanding in 1993...
- Custard Square
- Def-Logic
- Grinding Gear Games
- InGame
- Media Design School
- Metia InteractiveMetia InteractiveMetia Interactive is a game development studio based in Auckland, New Zealand. They are a member of the NZGDA. Metia Interactive specialises in designing and creating game art assets, including modelling and texturing, as well as pre-rendered and realtime animations.Metia is a licensed developer...
- Minimonos
- Pixel This
- Runaway Play
- Second IntentionSecond IntentionSecond Intention is a game development consultancy based in Wellington, New Zealand.Second Intention specialises in high-end graphical technology for both video game console and PC games, such as post-processing effects, as well as algorithm optimisation, and performance tuning. Additional to...
- Sidhe InteractiveSidhe InteractiveSidhe is a game development studio based in Wellington, New Zealand.Sidhe is an officially licensed developer for Microsoft , Sony Computer Entertainment Europe , and Nintendo of America . It is also a co-founding member of the New Zealand Game Developers Association...
- SmallWorldsSmallworldsSmallWorlds is a virtual world. It has over 6,000,000 registered users. It is commonly also known as 'SW'. The website is owned and operated by Outsmart 2005 Ltd, a privately owned company based in Auckland, New Zealand. The virtual world runs inside a web browser, without the need to download or...
- Stickmen Studios