We're hosting a special livestream tomorrow to celebrate our Community Manager Aditia's time with us at Runaway. Next week is her last as she embarks on other adventures! 💙
Come join us at 2pm NZT 25 June as we play party games like Mario Kart and Mario Party! 🥳
🔗 www.youtube.com/@RunawayPlay
Mānawatia a Matariki! 🌟 We're back in the office today after a restful long weekend spent with our friends and whānau! 💕
We hope you've had a cozy weekend, and have been taking care of yourself! 💙
Today is a double donation day! Donate to any of the #SweatWithPride campaigns we've shared in the thread below, and your contribution will be doubled.
Get in there and help fund queer healthcare in Aotearoa! 🏳️🌈👇🏳️⚧️
We have three special visitors at the office today! 💖 MJ from @balancingmonkeygames.com is visiting, Bea from Shyfters is working from the Runaway office for the day, and Alix who is usually remote has driven down from Ōtautahi/Christchurch!
Painting of a dark yellow labrador holding a bouquet of flowers in their mouth. They're sitting with their head out a car window and the the flowers are blowing away somewhat abstractly in the wind. The bg is just a mix of pastel colors.
On my way!! 💐
#art
A pink graphic advertising a QR code and a schedule breakdown of the 2025 New Zealand Games Festival. The paragraph at the top reads: Play by Play brings together game developers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts for inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, exciting exhibitions, funn opportunities to network and connect, and the chance to celebrate a selection of Aotearoa's best and brightest games of 2025. The schedule can be viewed at the following link in a more accessible format as this graphic is missing key date and time information: https://playbyplay.co.nz/2025-play-by-play-schedule/
In 2025, the NZ Games Fest moves to a new venue at Te Auaha, right in central Wellington. This week, join us for two days of talks and treats at Play by Play, plus the Pavs award show on Friday night! 🕹️🍦
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We've been experiencing a high volume of support tickets and are doing our best to respond as soon as possible! 💌
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Recently it was my first time seeing cherry blossoms in Japan 🌸🥹🩷
It's been cold in Tokyo lately, but I still enjoyed cherry blossom viewing! 🐰🌸💞
I hope everyone can enjoy cherry blossom viewing too~ ☺️🍡🌸
The small yellow snail is now BIG and edited onto the scene of a ruby field. Their antenna stand in as posts. There is a ruby player kicking a ball at fast speed between the posts. Text: "genuinely having too much fun putting this snail into situations" "We 🫶 you snail!!!"
A drawing of a small yellow snail that has been turned on their side, they are being held by some real life hands, their antenna double as plugs for a wall lamp, they are being inserted into a socket, they light up. Text: "Daisy: SKSKSKS i want that irl", "Libby: new merch idea!!" "shocking content" "SNIGHT LIGHT"
A drawing of small yellow snail is edited in the scene of a real life plate of spaghetti. They are upside down, and being held by fingers. Their pointy antenna are in the place of a fork. Text reads: "spaghetti dinner" "big huge fan"
A small yellow snail drawing has been turned upside down and has been edited on the scene of a real life fashion walkway. Their long antenna double as legs in black fashionable boots. Text: "he has many talents" "oh he is serving" "I would attend that fashion show".
A drawing of a small yellow snail on top of a TV. They look like they are the antenna of the TV due to really long pointy antenna. Text: "Daisy: it would be good if the wider team could have eyes on this. in case we need to circle back" "Libby: no no no yeah im seeing your point".
A drawing of a small yellow snail. There are screenshots from other conversations that say "perfect, you nailed it. snailed it. if you will." "snailed it. hehe". Text: "And we loved him for it.. Maybe too much.."
Text: "Behind the scenes he has to look like THIS to be animated.", image depicts a drawing of small yellow snail, with beady black eyes against a grey background.
Text: "Take for example, this gentleman. He looks normal here! But he holds a secret..." Image is depicting a character in our game Pondlife, it's a small yellow snail, their shell is a darker yellow than their body. They have bright beady black eyes.
Text: "You get to see all the silly behind the scenes stuff that goes into the games. (Truly so many silly billery opportunities)." Image is of a sketch grey-blue fish that is out of proportion. It has a small beak, tiny eyes, tiny fins and tail. It's depicting a bug in game development.
Text reads "Want to know the single best thing about being a game dev?". There is a sketch of a dark green frog with light green spots on them. They have wide bug eyes.
This is a silly snail/game dev appreciation post (a thread) 💙 🐌
Tunnelled footpath portal.
Seventeenth century river bridge portal.
Derelict pumphouse portal.
Lime kiln portal.
A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
YUZUU!! 💗 🥰
yuzu and blossom the bunny having a nice hanami picnic~
I’d like to think that the bunnies with leaves on their heads are good friends 🥹🐰🫶🌿
For everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is this what life currently feels like? ✨ 💗 🐰 🌸
Have you seen the Tadpoles in Pondlife? 🥺
BABY RUMMY-NOSE TETRA!! 🥺
Very fishy
Our freshwater game, Pondlife is OUT NOW on iOS and Android in celebration of World Water Day!! 💚 Meet Lily the Otter and help her welcome fish, frogs, salamanders, turtles, and other curious creatures to an enchanting pond environment! 🐸 🦦
