Gaby Roque-Worcel

PŌNEKE HĪKOI KI TE PŌTI!
National Day of Action: Friday 26 September 4pm
Protoplasm Sculpture on Lambton Quay (at Hunter Street) walking to Te Awe Brandon St Library.
Bring your flags, placards and banners in support of Māori wards and constituencies, Te Tiriti and justice, and join the hīkoi.

Of all the problems that healthcare service has in NZ I can think of none that require AI to solve.
I saw this job add today for a company that deals with confidential patient information (including me and family's medical history), and it sent shivers down my spine 🥶. #AI #NZ

Hunting for the staff credits in 2025’s top video games From Clair Obscur to Xenoblade, everyone's got a different approach to how they show who made their game. PLUS: There's always the Fortnite approach.

I was reading this article today: www.gamefile.news/p/hunting-fo... And it made me think: how cool would it be to have something like IMDB for video games. (Unless there is something like this already?)
What do you guys think?
#gamedev #indiedev

Extremely hard to figure out and estimate costs, Cognito's not-so-flexible authorization capabilities, Amplify Gen2's claims of being more flexible while at the same time giving you no tools to control the CI/CD pipeline... Just to mention what I suffered yesterday

Yay! The demo is finally out. It's great to see my fellow NZ devs publishing cool stuff 🇳🇿

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I am currently paying for all my past sins trying to develop a web application with AWS #webdev #AWS

I have used the Anti-planner many times over the years to allow me to understand myself, feelings and emotions. It has also helped me greatly in getting un-stuck on creative work and life in general. I highly recommend it. #ADHD #Neurodivergent

I'm trying to think of lighthearted topics and things for a game, looking for inspiration as it may, however reality is such a sad, weird, frustrating world out there that it becomes so hard to find some light in it.
I'm trying to be a comedian when I was destined for drama.

RNZ Video Documentaries, films and series about Aotearoa.

The Haka Party Incident is now streaming free in Aotearoa New Zealand.

If you haven't seen it already, I implore you to give it a watch; it's truly striking how much and yet how little has changed in terms of Pākehā and Māori relations.

www.rnz.co.nz/video

Those are some nice shoes! I see why you would collect them.

Why am I not making progress?
All the highly successful games have great teams.
I have only one employee and she is sick all the time :P
#solodeveloper #indiegamedev #chronicillness

NZGDC 2025 let's go!!!

Restore The Southerner Train A restored Southerner train route offers affordable transport for 750,000 SI residents, bridging gaps where air is too costly for students/low-income, coaches inaccessible for disabled/elderly, and ca...

NZ peeps: This cause is close to my heart. I believe in public transport and I love trains. If you agree, please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

TRADE MAGAZINE WEEK

are you ready

📰 It's TRADE MAGAZINE WEEK 📰

💥 NEARLY 400 video game industry trade magazines, full-text searchable by the public 💥

🎙️ NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, and more 🎙️

☠️ NOT for the FAINT-OF-HEART historian ☠️

🚨 ONLY at archive.gamehistory.org 🚨

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After I came back from lunch, I was feeling very defeated and low and I went to my room to crash in my bed; turns out the ring was lying on top of my pillow!!! Why??? I never take it off, let alone in bed. Super weird.
I cannot help but think there is some weird message from the universe there...

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I never take it off except when I shower, but it wasn't on the normal place I always leave it. I proceeded to freak out and search frantically all morning: the ring was nowhere to be found.

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I started the day doing laundry so that I will build up the dopamine to face the unknown, but around 9am I realized I didn't have my wedding ring on.

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Today was supposed to be my first day back working on my indie game. I had a plan and huge expectations (along with the anxiety that comes with it). #gamedev #storytime

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Let me tell you, you know
Ah, I need a miracle, I need a miracle *** sings off key ***

That reeks of written with AI

I love the attitude 😜 I was being a bit of a chicken because I've failed so many plants before. Also because I live in Wellington I thought if I don't get things going in September/October then I am screwed for the rest of the year 😅https://tuigarden.co.nz/media/3530/tui-planting-calendar-poster.pdf

Thank you so much for all the info. I'm definitely going to try getting an eggplant-plant going next year 😊

OMG! Did you grow that indoors? In New Zealand? 😱😱 I love eggplant and I am growing some experimental veggies inside, I would love to have an 🍆 plant in my home.
Teach me your secrets!

We know who's happy to use AI:
"The heaviest AI use showed up for those working in "Business & Finance," at 50 percent of respondents. Next up were those in "Production & Team Leadership" and "Community, Marketing, & PR" at 40 percent [...]. Developers in all other departments reported less use."

How can I explain to all the companies: Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. That I am NOT INTERESTED in AI features of any kind, and to stop pestering me about it?
No Google, I don't want to use Gemini, just leave me alone! #AI

Orange dinosaur plushie sitting. Text reads The autistic urge to know why.

tell me whyyy

I’m not trying to be difficult, I’m just trying to understand throughoutly

Comprehensive festive guide for supporting indie game developers:-

🎁 Wishlist an indie game

🎁 Buy an indie game

🎁 Leave a user review

Happy holidays 😋

I can relate to this too! My parents didn't let me play video games because they were 'too violent' or 'they rotted my brain'. It made me more obsessed with them in the end 😆. I guess it's a bit like the other answer: 'out of spite'.

There is no wrong answer to this question! Our diversity is also our strength.

Another great reason, and one of my biggest motivations to play video games myself.