Tana Tanoi

Games, Longboarding, Swing Dancing
director @ Dead Teapot

Games, Talks, and More


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Shape Sender Deluxe

Meet your new best friend Sendy!

Wishlist
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Expanding the Miniverse

GDC 2023 - Independent Games Summit

Vault Video
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Life in Three Dimensions

A talk about spaces in games.

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Mini Motorways

Draw the roads that drive the city.

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Tana's S.H.A.P.E.

A physics game about moving shapes around!

Play
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The Design of Tana's S.H.A.P.E. from Start to Finish

Game Developers of Wellington 2021

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The Adaptive Toolkit

A tour of Mini Motorways' tools.

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Mini Metro: Creative Mode

A new gamemode for Mini Metro.

Steam
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Space Jump Alpha

An endless jumper in space! Play in browser.

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Should you do a demo?

Play by Play 2019 talk about video game demos.

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Lessons Learned Shipping Mini Motorways: A bumpy Road To Success

GCAP 2020 talk about shipping Mini Motorways.

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Procedural Building Designer

An artist driven procedural building generator.

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Echo Chambers & Filter Bubbles

A white paper on software engineering responsibilities.

Paper
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VRRoom

CAVE/VR Driving simulator to test peripheral vision.

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About Me

I'm a Pōneke / Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand based technical designer and director of Dead Teapot.
Previously a dino at Dinosaur Polo Club. Before that, I studied Software Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington, and interned at both Google Sydney and Powershop.

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