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Game Change

3m

A documentary exploring New Zealand’s burgeoning video game industry, using video games to tell the story.

Made possible by the RNZ/NZ On Air Innovation Fund

4 episodes

Game Plan

An exploration of NZ's $200m video-game industry, as told by an up-and-coming studio in Lower Hutt. The industry is looking for more government help to build it into a $1 billion industry by 2025.
Episode 1
3m

Game Face

Lorien Gugich, aka Lorii Pops, is a single mother who happens to be one of NZ's top video-game streamers. She broadcasts her play to the world and, in turn, viewers pay her for the privilege.
Episode 2
2m

Game On

Humphrey Hanley was born with hands, but a rare genetic disease meant those hands gradually disappeared. His childhood was hard, but he's found comfort in the virtual world that gaming provides.
Episode 3
3m

Ten Forward

Meet the woman behind Ten Forward, an afterschool holiday programme that lets children learn and play video games to aid in their development.
Episode 4
3m

Trailers & bonus video

Behind the Scenes

The team behind Game Change talk about how the project came to life, using journalists, designers, developers, storytellers, animators, and 3D modelers.
5m

Awards

2021 Voyager Media Awards

Best Digital Storytelling Innovation

Produced by

Vanishing Point Studio

Made possible by the

RNZ/NZ On Air Joint Innovation Fund

Video section home

Dark grey background with yellow text reading, "The Barber Shope". There is a illustration in the same yellow of a Māori design.
A group of people performing a haka outside amongst the trees. The person at the front is in focus and doing a pukana. Text reads, "NZ Wars: The Stories of Ruapekapeka".
Misty Frequency's mask sits by other masks on a shelf in a dressing room. The text reads "What's the Disability-Tea"
A sand dune with the ocean behind it in a cove, everything shadowy and violet in the twilight. The text reads "Whitiki! Whītī! Whītī! E!"
A large group of people protesting, they're all holding signs. Text reads, "Hīkoi, Speaking Our Truth".
Side profile of a persons face, silhouetted against a setting sun out of frame. Text reads, "Imposter".
Piripi is wearing a shirt and a cap and looks into the camera smiling. He is leaning against the side of a vehicle. Text reads, "Oe, The Adventures of of Piripi Kaiwaru AKA Phillip! Narrated by his Mother" There is a small illustration of a truck under the text, as well as illustrations of deer horns and a kangaroo.
Eight seperate images edited into two rows of four, each showing different images of people and art. Text reads, "Marauders".
Text reads, "House Talk" on a white brick wall background.
A brightly colours grid of squares where some of the squares include the faces of the five hosts of Whakamāori
A background image made up of red orange and blue shapes. Text reads, "Shine One Katherine Mansfield" in the 'O' is a black and white photograph of Katherine Mansfield's face.
A close up of a video game controller, the lighting makes it look slightly pink and blue. Text reads, "Game Change".
A coastal scene of a land mass with cliffs leading down to a beach and the ocean. Text reads, "My Cyclone Gabrielle, Four Filmmakers Four Views".
The host, Mihingarangi Forbes, smiling at the camera. Text reads, "Mata".
Text reads, "Treaty Talks Aotearoa, Hosted by Kara Rickard". Surrounding the text is an image of a version of the Coat of Arms, the 'Crown' figure is holding a Māori flag.
A hillside is draped with a large Māori flag, on the ridge line stands a single figure and another Māori flag. Text in a painted font reads "Ake Ake Ake"
A transparent figure of the back of a man, overlayed with another transparent image of the same figure but just his shoulders and back of his head. Text reads, "Duality". it's written in transparent white block letters and yellow cursive overlapped.
Six people standing in a row wearing indoor netball bibs. The person in the centre is holding a netball and smiling that the camera, everyone else looks curious or fed up. Text reads, "Here If You Need".
Two men embracing in a MMA octagon ring. They look sweaty post match. It's dark around them but they are standing in a spotlight. Text reads, "Fighting Chance".
Guyon Espiner on a black background, looking at camera with logo behind him
An archival picture of a group of Pacific Islanders posing for a group picture. The text reads "Untold Pacific History"
A man looking into the camera with his mouth slightly open. His left eye is bugged out in a comically over the top way. Text reads, "A Place Called Te Awamutu".
A woman siting on a two person sized couch, she has her arms spread to the sides. She's looking at the camera. Text reads, "I Got You".
An adult person is holding a young child in their arms and hugging them. Text reads, "Blind Bitter Happiness".