Playmaker: A community for NZ game developers.

The PlayMaker portal is a community site dedicated to game development in New Zealand.

Established by Pixelati and GameMold after meeting via the Auckland Game Works Meetup that AGW runs, the PlayMaker portal's purpose is to provide an active and engaged social site offering information, support and community to established and up-and-coming developers - both professionals and hobbyists. There's a good level of conversation going on there already, so check it out.

Besides the obligatory forums, the PlayMaker portal has its own group Twitter of sorts in the form of The Wire; Members and Groups functions with dedicated calendars and forums for companies and informal teams to interact; tag-based categorisation, and detailed member profiles with links to individual Twitter feeds.  There is an Auckland Game Works group in the community too, so if you join Playmaker join our group too.

The portal is going well but still in development. Future plans include more social integration, an aggregated blog, competitions, video items on industry events and behind the scenes at developer studios, membership incentives and offline events. Anybody with an interest in any aspect of game development is welcome to join up and be a part of the community.