Stickmen Media
Stickmen Media is a video game development company based in Christchurch New Zealand. It was established in 2012 by Brooklyn Waters and Margaret Pickering. Stickmen Media published the mobile game "Zombeeze" and the PC VR game "Zombeeze VR".[1].
The company and its founders are well known in New Zealand[2], not only for providing services to New Zealand businesses but also for the release of several games as Stickmen Studios and more recently the release of Zombeeze for Android and IOS and Zombeeze VR. Stickmen Media became one of the first tenants in Christchurch's prestigious Epic Innovation Centre[3], a centre built to house the best of Christchurch's innovation companies after the 2011 earthquakes.
Having developed a Virtual Reality game Stickmen Media began looking for other uses for virtual reality and implemented a virtual reality wheelchair trainer in conjunction with Callaghan Innovation and the Burwood Academy for Independent Living (BAIL)[4].
In November 2015 Stickmen Media created a subsidiary company "MTech Games" to commercialise the virtual reality wheelchair trainer. Callaghan Innovation and Stickmen Media ceded their intellectual property to MTech Games[5]. MTech applied to become members of the Lightning Lab accelerator[6]. MTech was accepted and continued to use Stickmen Media as its production arm. Today MTech is a successful company in its own right with collaborations in New Zealand and the US and its parent company "Stickmen Media" continues in the refinement and improvements to the virtual reality wheelchair trainer[7]
Stickmen Media has become a significant contributor to the VR and AR in New Zealand, movements having no fewer than 13 mentions in the NZVRARA first report on the NZ AR and VR community in New Zealand.[8]
Also in 2015 Stickmen Media were finalists in the Champion Canterbury awards[9] and the New Zealand Innovation Awards[10].
Most recently Stickmen Media has begun the development of a new game called "After the Light", a zombie survival horror shooter. The company hopes to release this game on Steam in October 2018. It will be released as both VR and non-VR versions. Stickmen Media are registered PlayStation developers so they are looking to also release the game on PlayStation and PlayStation VR. Information about this game can be found at www.afterthelightgame.com.
Stickmen Media is the trading name for Desolate Spectre Studios Limited [11]
Executive Leadership team[edit]
The executive leadership team consist of
- Chief Executive Officer - Sam Ragnarsson
- Chief Operating Officer - Margaret Pickering
- Chief Technology Officer - Brooklyn Waters
Activities[edit]
Stickmen Media undertake video game and app development for other businesses and also create their own original IP. A complete list of their activities is available on the company web page at stickmenmedia.com.
References[edit]
- ↑ WEAVR Listing
- ↑ Christchurch NZ (formerly CDC) IT in New Zealand
- ↑ Epic Tenancy List
- ↑ Press Article June 2015
- ↑ Callaghan Innovation
- ↑ Lightning Lab Alumni
- ↑ Press Article September 2017
- ↑ NZVRAR Report One
- ↑ Stuff article July 30 2015
- ↑ New Zealand Innovation Awards Finalists 2015
- ↑ Company Registry
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