Mahi you can stand behind.

Role

Deliverables

• -60-card deck with 6 colours × 10 Ihi values, each a unique Toa warrior
• -7-row Taonga board with formation-based claiming
• -War / Whawhai turn-based battle system with boost tokens
• -13 Rautaki strategy cards (Pūkaha, Taniwha, Wā Kai, Nekeneke)
• -Eight atua-aligned avatars with runtime perks, plus Māui boss and New Game + final boss
• -Gauntlet mode and built-in Learn to Play tutorial
• -React 19 + TanStack Start edge-deployed web build with i18n architecture for te reo Māori

Outcome

A polished single-player strategy card game that holds cultural depth and tactical richness in one product - establishing a distinctive original IP for Māui Studios that fuses Māori mythology with contemporary strategy gaming through self-determined cultural expression.

Role

Deliverables

• -Custom-built Fortnite / UEFN level aligned to hauora education goals
• -Narrative and learning objectives linked to real health challenges affecting rangatahi
• -Multiplayer for up to 50 concurrent players plus single-player usability
• -Cross-platform access (PC, Xbox, PlayStation, iPhone, Android, iPad, tablets)
• -Two rounds of revisions and bug-fixing; basic facilitator/educator support documentation
• -Milestone structure across initiation, midpoint approval, and final delivery

Outcome

A scoped narrative-led hauora experience where rangatahi encounter and think through real-world issues inside the game world - a reusable, multi-context tool designed to remain operational as a longer-term digital hauora resource.

Role

Deliverables

• -Live festival-booth concept with large LED display and player controllers
• -Matariki-themed virtual marae built in Fortnite (tukutuku styling, posters, voice and audio, approved character assets)
• -Hybrid play: 2–6 in-person players and up to 50 players online in a single session
• -Cultural quality-assurance review
• -Published Fortnite island (Island Code 4815-1223-7172)

Outcome

Delivered a published, accessible Fortnite island that held the spatial and relational logic of a marae while retaining the playability of Fortnite - a functioning civic activation for Tīrama Mai 2025 that extends beyond the festival as a living digital asset.

Role

Deliverables

• -Fully playable browser-based 2D educational game
• -Interactive storytelling system and gameplay progression
• -Character and environment design across multiple cultures
• -Curriculum-aligned educational content integration
• -Cross-device web deployment for NZ schools

Outcome

Delivered a fully playable, curriculum-aligned browser game deployable across NZ primary schools without specialist installation - the studio's largest and most technically complex digital production to date.

Role

Deliverables

• -Bespoke visual design system rooted in iwi identity and whakapapa
• -Content architecture co-designed with the iwi
• -Custom website build with CMS for iwi-administered content
• -Cross-generation accessibility and device compatibility
• -Content population and deployment

Outcome

Delivered a fully operational, culturally grounded website - giving Ngāti Ranginui a digital home with mana and administrative autonomy over their own digital presence.

Role

Deliverables

• -Four interactive UEFN learning levels mapped to training modules (10508, 18275, 20092, 18038)
• -Four custom companion activity books aligned to the same modules
• -Four module-aligned learning pathways
• -Staged production structure across concept, production, review, QA, and launch

Outcome

A playable vocational learning prototype with a 1:1:1 architecture (module → level → book) that turns structured industry knowledge into modular, outcome-linked interactive educational infrastructure.

Role

Deliverables

• -20+ minute immersive VR / MR animated experience
• -First-person narrative structure with user as participant and witness
• -Storyworld centred on Io, Tāne, and Whiro - a mythic arc of conflict, transformation, and restoration
• -Full production pipeline: illustrated concept, animatics, narrated sequences, motion-captured 3D characters, interactive gameplay, orchestral score, spatial sound
• -Built in Unreal Engine and delivered as an immersive showcase

Outcome

A showcase-ready proof of concept for immersive indigenous storytelling - combining high-end real-time production methods with symbolic narrative to demonstrate immersive technology used for culturally resonant, emotionally powerful storytelling rather than simulation.

Role

Deliverables

• -Digital storytelling platform architecture
• -Multimedia narrative content - video, illustration, and audio
• -Bilingual storytelling frameworks supporting te reo Māori and English
• -Cross-device web accessibility
• -Collaboration with kaumātua and whānau to guide narrative authenticity
• -Visual identity and experiential design language for the platform

Outcome

A platform that holds Māori narratives with care, beauty, and accessibility - establishing the basis for a living archive of memory and mana: a repeatable system for safeguarding, presenting, and extending Māori stories across generations.