Shelf Life Development Blog

NZ CODE 2024 Funding Support for Fnife

ShelfLife has received funding + support in the latest round of NZ CODE funding!

Tom BarrerApril 3, 2024lgbt, lgbtqia+, CODE, Centre Of Digital Excellence, Funding, ShelfLife

June's Queer Games Bundle 2023 (recap)

Reflecting on the 2023 Queer Games Bundle!

Tom BarrerDecember 13, 2023lgbt, lgbtqia+

Small Town Emo is a Pavs 2023 Finalist!

Small Town Emo is a Pavs 2023 Finalist in four (4) categories!

Tom BarrerJuly 6, 2023lgbt, lgbtqia+, the pavs, NZGDC, NZGF, SmallTownEmo

Small Town Emo @ Pride At Play!

We exhibited Small Town Emo at Pride At Play (& did a cool interview)!

Tom BarrerMarch 22, 2023lgbt, lgbtqia+, nzgdc, 2021, nzgda

Spotlight: AlterXArtifact by nohua & co

Spotlight on Alter X Artifact, a new queer webcomic by Maven Boren

Tom BarrerOctober 4, 2022indie, indiegames, lgbt, lgbtqia+, non binary, cannes, interactive diversity, Q & A, webcomic, comic Comment

Fnife Devlog 07/22 - Emo Game | ShelfLife | Echo Peak

A Devlog giving an update, explanation and rundown of our various projects (and exposing our delusions, most likely).

Tom BarrerJuly 2, 2022lgbt, lgbtqia+, devlog, fnifegames, stupidemogame, shelflife, echopeak

NZFC support awarded for our project: Echo Peak

Our new project Echo Peak was successful in the NZ Film Commission’s Whakawhanake Te Ao Niko funding round for 2021/22!

Tom BarrerMarch 28, 2022indie, indiegames, christchurch, indiegamedev, NZFC, IDF, funding, demo, echopeak

NZGDC 2021 (our first GDC) was cool and good!

A wrap up of our good times at the 2021 New Zealand Game Developer’s Conference, wowee!

Tom BarrerSeptember 3, 2021lgbt, lgbtqia+, nzgdc, 2021, nzgda

@maankalf's OverNight Demo available on Itch.io

OverNight, the project our team mentored and assisted @maankalf with developing now has a Demo on itch.io!

New Project: OverNight by @maankalf!

Let’s talk ‘bout “OverNight”, a project created by Hessel Bouma during his HKU internship/mentorship with our Team!

Tom BarrerFebruary 9, 2021indie, indiegames, christchurch, indiegamedev, demo, lgbt, lgbtqia+, non binary, interactive diversity, Q & A, HKU, Internship, OverNight

NZFC support awarded for our ShelfLife project!

ShelfLife was awarded the NZ Film Commission’s Whakawhanake Te Ao Niko funding round for 2020!

Tom BarrerDecember 13, 2020indie, indiegames, pixelart, christchurch, indiegamedev, NZFC, IDF, funding, demo

[Interactive Diversity] Interview 3: Hessel Bouma

The third interview in our [Interactive Diversity] series, featuring gay artist, game dev, mentee, reluctant programmer and student of HKU Hessel Bouma!

[Interactive Diversity] Interview 2: Maven Boren

The second interview in our [Interactive Diversity] series, featuring freelance pixel artist and writer, game developer, and non-binary trans man Maven Boren.