Daily Creative Challenge #18 Create or recreate a piece of music using digital or non-traditional instruments. Find resources here: hatchpbl.com/pages/daily-ch… #lockdownnz

Turn up the sound - Minecraft music made by Alexa for Creative Challenge #18

Light paintings made for creative challenge #16

Daily Creative Challenge #19 Make a boring but necessary task better by applying the Fun Theory which says it’s easier to change people’s habits when we make it fun. #funtheory #lockdownnz resources here: hatchpbl.com/pages/daily-ch…

Turn that device time into creating rather than consuming! Do you have a Year 7-13 gamer in the family? Flip the conversation and get them to try making a game. They could win $300! Join our Games for Good challenge during Techweek NZ. hatchpbl.com/course?coursei…

Year 7-13 students are invited to join us for webinars this week with Dana Fridman Dana Fridman and Hannah Mackintosh from CerebralFix. They'll tell us about what they do and then they'll be open to questions. If you'd like to take part, send an email to [email protected] for a link

Did you know Dunedin is a Centre of Digital Excellence CODE NZ? runawayplaygames.bsky.social is right at the centre of a thriving game making industry. Zoe Hobson, managing director, tells us about her role and the interesting career path she followed to get there: vimeo.com/441686106

Games for Good is an awesome techweek event by Phillipa Dick inspiring young people to act as change-makers and problem solvers through effective game design. I'll be giving a short talk tomorrow as part of the event, check it here: techweek.co.nz/whats-on/2020/…

Siobhan Place is a digital artist runawayplaygames.bsky.social. Check out her interview as she tells us about what she loves about her role. "Don't let anyone make you feel that it can't be a career...put yourself out there." vimeo.com/441683503 TechweekNZ DunedinTechweek

This is tonight at 7pm. Join our conversation with Dana Fridman. Send a message for a link.

Seth Corbett-Davies is a Product Owner for runawayplaygames.bsky.social. Having studied film to be a documentary maker and computer science, he has landed in a role that nicely melds the two! Learn more in his interview: vimeo.com/441684679 TechweekNZ DunedinTechweek

Beric Holt is the Technical Director for runawayplaygames.bsky.social. He says that working in the games industry has made him a much happier person. Find out more: vimeo.com/442248571 DunedinTechweek TechweekNZ

Alex Galbraith is an artist at runawayplaygames.bsky.social, and tells us about his day-to-day role as well as the journey that led him there. Alex first got into game making at high school. Learn more here: vimeo.com/441685629 DunedinTechweek TechweekNZ

Sam Watson is a platform developer for runawayplaygames.bsky.social . As a kid, she loved gaming and has turned her passion into a career. Check out what she has to say about her role: vimeo.com/441685029 DunedinTechweek TechweekNZ

Jonas Goodwin is a researcher for runawayplaygames.bsky.social. He loves 'geeking out' about nature and putting it in people's hands through game making. Check out his interview: vimeo.com/441685879 DunedinTechweek TechweekNZ

Sam Fleury used to be a cafe owner but is now a programmer for runawayplaygames.bsky.social! He says that knowing how to think is an important part of his role. Check out more here: vimeo.com/441685356 DunedinTechweek TechweekNZ

Tom Clark is a platform engineer with runawayplaygames.bsky.social. He loves working in such a diverse and interesting workplace. In this video he gives us insight into his role and his background: vimeo.com/441684223 DunedinTechweek TechweekNZ

Thank you Aditia for doing all of the filming for the runawayplaygames.bsky.social videos for Tech Week. You're fab! Aditia is the community manager at Runaway. She is the link between the players and developers. Check out more here: vimeo.com/442248189 DunedinTechweek TechweekNZ

I'm excited to get back into running courses again. If you live in Dunedin and you want to get your head around the Digital Technologies curriculum then this course is for you! fb.me/e/6APtZQsFE

Check out these game assets by Year 5/6 learners working in 'Game Studio' groups to create online games about our early explorers. If you would like to run a similar project in your class, come along to a course I'm running which will teach you how: hatch4schools.com/workshops