A wide range of videogame and game development software is available from NZ developers. Support the NZ game development community by considering the following games and game development tools.

Neko Puzzle Feature!

Developer: Lexaloffle
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$19.95

Neko Puzzle is a cute puzzle game that will make you feel good! It is a simple game that can be learned in less than a minute, and can be enjoyed by absolute beginners and hardened puzzle game fanatics alike. Intriguing puzzles, adorable graphics and slick animation combine effortlessly to create a fantastic puzzle game experience!

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Neko Puzzle


Rugby League 2 Feature!

Developer: Sidhe Interactive
Platform(s): PC, XBOX, PS2.
Price: NZ $73.99

Rugby League 2 on Xbox adds new gameplay features, graphical improvements, a multi-year franchise mode, and players, sponsors and stadiums have been updated to reflect the 2005 / 2006 season.

Building on the powerful game engine that was embraced by both gamers and people passionate about Rugby League, the game developer Sidhe Interactive has spent over 12 months creating a brand new sequel, packed with all new functionality and refined gameplay, graphics, controls, and competitions. Players, sponsors, and stadiums have all been updated to reflect the 2005 season.

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Rugby League 2


Zen Puzzle Garden Feature!

Developer: Lexaloffle
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$19.95

Each puzzle in Zen Puzzle Garden is a Japanese rock garden which can be solved by raking all of the sand. The player controls a little monk with a rake, who must find a way to complete the garden without raking himself into a corner. With beautiful graphics and intriguing puzzles, Zen will keep you mesmerized for hours!

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Zen Puzzle Garden


BlitzBasic 3D

Developer: Blitz Research
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$100

Blitz3D is the hit 3D games programming language used by thousands of programmers around the world. Blitz3D provides a simple yet powerful environment for game creation - simple, because its based around the popular and easy to use BASIC programming language; and powerful, thanks to a highly optimized underlying 2D/3D engine.

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BlitzBasic 3D


BlitzPlus

Developer: Blitz Research
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$60

BlitzPlus provides developers with a complete 2D game programming solution for the PC. Utilising a BASIC/C hybrid language for use with its compiler, BlitzPlus is capable of creating any type of 2D program, with minimal development-time and with minimal hassle. Just run the included IDE (or use one of your own), type your code and your Windows executable file will be created, ready to be run on any computer running Windows 95/NT 4 or later.

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BlitzPlus


Deep Paint 3D

Developer: Right Hemisphere
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$995

Deep Paint 3D® provides 3D artists with an intuitive, easy to use tool to paint and texture 3D models interactively in 3D. It uses textures or natural medium that can be brushed directly or projected onto 3D models and scenes. This creative environment supports an integrated workflow with 3ds max®, Maya®, Softimage® and LightWave 3D®. Deep Paint 3D comes complete with a bi-directional interface to Photoshop® and special support for the Wacom® Intuos(tm) pressure sensitive tablet. Deep Paint 3D can be used standalone or with Deep UV.

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Deep Paint 3D


Drippy

Developer: Screaming Duck
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$19.95

A completely new game! No, really! Not just an old game with a different name and better graphics and enough little changes to evade copyright, but a whole new game concept. It's not Tetris. It's not Columns. It's not Puzzle Bobble. It's... Drippy!

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Drippy


Fitznik

Developer: Screaming Duck
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$19.95

Help Fitz pillage the treasure from an ancient city! Spend hours solving intriguing and frustrating logic puzzles while getting eaten, squished, drowned, zapped and just plain stuck. A really addictive game you'll come to love to hate - you'll be pushing blocks in your sleep in no time.

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Fitznik


Fitznik 2

Developer: Screaming Duck
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$19.95

The much anticipated sequel to Fitznik! 63 more levels featuring new puzzles and objects. With the addition of force-fields, buttons, pressure plates, and seeker droids, the puzzles in Fitznik 2 have become more intricate. A great challenge all round.

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Fitznik 2


Hoki Moki

Developer: Blue Boar Mobile
Platform(s): Other.
Price: NZ $4.95

Hoki Moki - the Cassanova of Shag Reef. This wide-eyed fish is horny and hungry. Help the anti-Nemo fulfil his lifelong ambition to score, while avoiding predatory Snappers prowling the watery depths. Munching multi-coloured Kina provides Hoki Moki with staying power, special skills and size where it counts. But beware, not all is what it seems in the watery depths. So, do the Hoki Moki today and lock up your goldfish's daughters before they're knocked-up by this lecherous leviathan.

Hoki Moki can be played on any Telecom Java-capable handset, for $4.95. To download directly to your mobile via your Minibrowser:
1) Enter the Xtra site using your mobile's Minibrowser (or equivalent)
2) Select 'Games'
3) Select "Download Games'
4) Select 'New Releases'
5) Select the Hoki Moki matched for your handset
6) Select 'Purchase Now'
7) Complete transaction

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Hoki Moki


Maplet

Developer: Blitz Research
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$25

Maplet is an extremely easy to use modelling tool, designed to make creating 'indoor' style scenery and game levels as painless as possible. Maplet is a 'Constructive Solid Geometry' based modeller. This means that instead of modelling with polygons, vertices and so on, all modelling is performed with solid 'primitives'. Using operations such as 'carve' and 'fill', solid primitives are combined together to create models.

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Maplet


Platypus

Developer: Squashy Software
Platform(s): PC.
Price: US$19.95

A fresh take on the old-school side-scrolling shoot 'em up! Platypus takes the genre in a new direction with a combination of fast-paced action set against beautiful clay-sculpted scenery. Featuring 20 richly detailed levels, multiple weapons and powerups, simultaneous 2-player action, and now with selectable skill levels so the whole family can enjoy Platypus!

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Platypus


Stacey Jones Rugby League

Developer: Sidhe Interactive
Platform(s): PC, XBOX, PS2.
Price: NZ $94.95

All the excitement and passion of Rugby League comes to life as you take control of your favourite team and lead them to victory. Features fun gameplay, 35 licensed teams including NRL and SuperLeague, 25 realistic stadia, commentary by Andrew Voss, and over 700 animations.

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Stacey Jones Rugby League