Newsletter // #5, 2025
Welcome to our first exclusive TrailblaXR interview for 2025! We speak with one of NZ’s longest running gaming studio and publisher and meet the latest TrailblaXR B2B member. Instinctively Real Media shining the starlight on industry trailblazers shooting for the stars!
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Exclusive TrailblaXR interview: PikPok – Why compelling stories position the player at the heart of their video games
PikPok’s Design Manager and Narrative Director Rick Stemm explains why great story is the Holy Grail to gamer experience. Shhh… there’s an innovative XR game in development
Welcome to the TrailblaXR Q&A, please introduce yourself; explain what are your specialities and role at PikPok in Wellington and more about the studio.
PikPok is New Zealand’s largest and oldest game developer, and I am a Design Manager and the Narrative Director there. I actually originated both of my roles! My former colleague (now in London, originally from India – we’re quite an international place) were the first two Game Design Managers, as that department had grown enough to need them. I also worked determinedly to grow a proper narrative department, and am proud (of my team especially, and myself, and PikPok for supporting) to run New Zealand’s largest game narrative team. There’s five of us, although NZ is small, it’s still an accomplishment!
PikPok rose to prominence making quality mobile games early on, but these days we do everything – mobile, console, PC; free to play and premium experiences; original works and working with other large IPs; and now are starting to get more into XR (extended reality) as well.
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B2B SHOWCASE
Welcome to our latest TrailblaXR B2B member:
Manifold Valley of Los Angeles, USA
Manifold Valley is revolutionising video game development with a cutting-edge machine learning platform designed to create emotionally resonant games faster than ever. Their next-gen performance capture technology reconstructs real-world actors into identical in-game characters without the need for capture suit or wearables. The company is investment ready and seeking interested partners to join them on their next stage!
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