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Submitted by souri on

There's a small number of New Zealand visitors to this site, so I was thinking maybe extending this games dev site to cover the New Zealand games industry as well.. any of you know any companies developing games over there ?

Submitted by JonathanKerr on Tue, 24/09/02 - 7:42 AM Permalink

http://www.sidhe.co.nz/frames.htm is for a devco called Sidhe Interactive. I dont know much about them - they've made a small number of games as well as doing some animations too.

Did a bit more looking and found http://www.nzgda.com/ - that was unexpected. Also unexpected that an NZ company was behind the code language of Blitz Basic...

Edited by - JonathanKerr on 23/09/2002 21:50:57

Submitted by souri on Tue, 24/09/02 - 9:38 AM Permalink

Yeh, I did a search and found them too last night, and put them in the developers section .. there's another one called Acid Software, in New Zealand.

Posted by souri on

There's a small number of New Zealand visitors to this site, so I was thinking maybe extending this games dev site to cover the New Zealand games industry as well.. any of you know any companies developing games over there ?


Submitted by JonathanKerr on Tue, 24/09/02 - 7:42 AM Permalink

http://www.sidhe.co.nz/frames.htm is for a devco called Sidhe Interactive. I dont know much about them - they've made a small number of games as well as doing some animations too.

Did a bit more looking and found http://www.nzgda.com/ - that was unexpected. Also unexpected that an NZ company was behind the code language of Blitz Basic...

Edited by - JonathanKerr on 23/09/2002 21:50:57

Submitted by souri on Tue, 24/09/02 - 9:38 AM Permalink

Yeh, I did a search and found them too last night, and put them in the developers section .. there's another one called Acid Software, in New Zealand.