In the latest Auckland City Council news, Auckland has been crowned the home of New Zealand’s creative industries. Within the city there are approximately 5250 employees in the design sector alone. This totals 39% of the country’s creative workers.

It has been two weeks since we moved into our new office…

From the video files… “Font Conference”

Video game violence is a hot topic these days, but being on the front lines of raising children means confronting this issue head on. One of Straylight’s “gamer dads” writes about the trials and tribulations of sharing his love for games with his young children…

The next installment in the Danbassador series, Dan travels to the capital for a focus group on Technological Modelling conducted by the Ministry of Education.

The Auckland office of Straylight is about to relocate to Studio CO-4 in the Newton area.

We were approached recently by someone with a game idea who was interested in getting it off the ground in New Zealand and seeking some advice on where to get started.

Join Hayden has he conquers a new frontier, taking Straylight to the city… Follow the updates covering the life of the Straylight Auckland office… starting from our humble beginnings right through to the re-naming of the sky tower to The Villa Straylight. Rated PGR (Pretty Good Read) I’m sure it won’t disappoint.

Today Straylight bid farewell to Melinda, an MBA student working on site with us over the last few months.

Join Dan as he tackles the role as an ambassador for the Future in Tech programme, a Government-funded initiative of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand. Regular updates here…

With development for the new site underway, and self-enforced milestones looming, it was time to start tying down some of the ‘loose ends’ on the site.

This fortnight Oxfam is running New Zealand’s ‘Biggest Coffee Break’ in support of the free trade initiatives to help fight poverty – one cup at a time.

I really like the “Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars blog”http://softrockhallelujah.blogspot.com/. Short, sharp, and to the point, it provides an excellent insight into the biz dev and general politicking of the games industry…

In making the transition from a service based company to a product based, original IP shop, we knew there were going to be some significant challenges in “rebooting” our mindset, environment, and strategy.