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About

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Welcome. I am Erik Hogan of Auckland, New Zealand, and Earok.Net is my personal site.

My primary hobby is game development. Over the past few years I have developed a number of well received freeware titles in a broad range of genres, including First Person Shooter, Platformer and Shoot Em Up.

I am also an active participant in the Auckland Game Developer's Meetup and the Playmaker NZ community.

Asides from game development, my other hobby is writing. I have maintained a long running blog as well as being a NaNoWriMo winner in 2009, and ScriptFrenzy winner in 2010 and 2011.

I hope you enjoy your stay. If you're a casual gamer, I recommend checking out The Kiwi's Tale. Otherwise, if you're more hardcore, Derelict might be of interest.

Latest blog posts

Battlesuit Dev Post #3
I know it's only been a day since my last post, but I really need to stick to the habit of my weekly posts on the project. Unity was one of my main options for Battlesuit's engine, and after playing with it at the Global Game Jam I can safely say...
Global Game Jam 2012 Retrospective
Overall my experience at the Global Game Jam this year was a mixed bag. I left having programmed the worst game I'd done in a long time, fortunately though the experience didn't come without learning Unity and some other valuable lessons. So, here...
Global Game Jam Update 3# - It's done.
So, the game is done. You can play it here if you'd like: http://earok.net/games/eod/WebPlayer.html Controls are Cursor Keys and Left Ctrl for Player one, WASD and F for Player two, joysticks for player three and four. Press enter to restart the...
Global Game Jam Update 2#
Just another quick note. 17 hours to go until upload time. I'm tempted to stay awake until it's done. The game is called "Eat or Die" and is about tiny people who compete or co-operate to stay alive fighting over food in an endless kitchen. Just...
Global Game Jam Update 1#
This is going to be a really quick note. Brainstorming etc is done, teams have been formed. Game is going to be in Unity, so I'm definitely jumping in the deep end (fortunately the team has an experienced Unity guru to mentor me into it, and I'm...

Contact

Reach me through the contact page. I am also available on these social media services:

Some Kiwi indie game developers I recommend checking out.

Also some recommended indie game developers from around the world.

Here are some awesome people who have contributed to projects on this site. (If I forgot you - I'm really sorry! Let me know and I'll add you to the list).

Some places you might see my games:

Finally, I am a proud supporter of: