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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

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...
Powerslam: It's done!
After years of hard work and several major athestic changes, Cobra Blade has finally released his Mac exclusive wrestling game, Powerslam! (Which also marks the first time a game I assisted with gets a commercial release - a good omen, I think)...
Battlesuit Dev Diary #2
Time for another rambling post. I don't really have much new to report, but for the sake of keeping momentum, I'm going to write a blog post anyway. Still no screenshot to show. I've started a basic prototype in Blitz3D but it's still extremely...
Battlesuit Dev Diary #1
Apologies in advance, this is going to be a rambling post with no discernible point or structure. I haven't successfully kept a dev diary since 2008. And I haven't successfully released a full length game since then, either. I do really want to make...
Terry Cavanagh's new year resolution
Terry Cavanagh (of VVVVVV fame) has posted his new years resolution, which is simply: This year, I’m not going to start any new projects. Brilliant! I think I'm going to have to steal that one myself (though GGJ, Nano, Screnzy etc can potentially...

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: