Joe Bracewell
@featuringjoe.bsky.social
NZ Commercial, IP and Games Lawyer
Ngati Maniapoto and Ngai Te Rangi
he/him
Ngati Maniapoto and Ngai Te Rangi
he/him
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
Such a great little game, incredible the level of story and emotion that comes through from a series of objects and places.
What's that on the Steam homepage? Oh it's Unpacking as a ✨ Daily Deal ✨ at our lowest discount yet, 60% off!
store.steampowered.com/app/1135690/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1135690/...
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Such a great little game, incredible the level of story and emotion that comes through from a series of objects and places.
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Make sure to watch out for Killer Whales! Wishlist Penguin Colony NOW: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/Penguin_Colony/
#lovecraft #weirdfiction #indiedev #gamedev #flipped #penguin #KillerWhaleFlipping #OrcaFlip #WhaleTricks
#lovecraft #weirdfiction #indiedev #gamedev #flipped #penguin #KillerWhaleFlipping #OrcaFlip #WhaleTricks
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Make sure to watch out for Killer Whales! Wishlist Penguin Colony NOW: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/Penguin_Colony/
#lovecraft #weirdfiction #indiedev #gamedev #flipped #penguin #KillerWhaleFlipping #OrcaFlip #WhaleTricks
#lovecraft #weirdfiction #indiedev #gamedev #flipped #penguin #KillerWhaleFlipping #OrcaFlip #WhaleTricks
Speaking @ NZGDC tomorrow afternoon on legal pitfalls and how to avoid them, including getting the best value from your professional advisors. Come along and chat, or if you're interested and can't make it feel free to hit me up for the slides or catch me wandering the conference.
Programme — NZGDC
www.nzgdc.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Speaking @ NZGDC tomorrow afternoon on legal pitfalls and how to avoid them, including getting the best value from your professional advisors. Come along and chat, or if you're interested and can't make it feel free to hit me up for the slides or catch me wandering the conference.
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Trailer for our new #inidegame called Penguin Colony! We are collaborating with Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium, Ultrakill) to bring this unique re-imagining to life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Trailer for our new #inidegame called Penguin Colony! We are collaborating with Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium, Ultrakill) to bring this unique re-imagining to life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...
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Penguin Colony Reveal Trailer will be at Six One Indie Showcase!! STARTING NOW!! GET IN HERE!! https://www.sixoneindie.com/showcase #indiegames #horror #lovecraft
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Penguin Colony Reveal Trailer will be at Six One Indie Showcase!! STARTING NOW!! GET IN HERE!! https://www.sixoneindie.com/showcase #indiegames #horror #lovecraft
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Here is some non-satire for you:
Trans rights forever.
Trans rights forever.
September 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here is some non-satire for you:
Trans rights forever.
Trans rights forever.
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Incredibly grateful to @pcgamer.com for sharing about our Games for Palestine charity bundle. Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️
www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...
www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...
September 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Incredibly grateful to @pcgamer.com for sharing about our Games for Palestine charity bundle. Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️
www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...
www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...
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Kevin McLeod, who for 20 years has been the "royalty-free music guy" online, has just launched a new website where other composers will also be offering royalty-free music for anyone to use in their projects: freepd.com
FreePD.com - Free Public Domain Music Creative Commons 0 Completely Royalty Free
freepd.com
July 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Kevin McLeod, who for 20 years has been the "royalty-free music guy" online, has just launched a new website where other composers will also be offering royalty-free music for anyone to use in their projects: freepd.com
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if you cancel your NYT games subscription there’s great alternatives for newspaper games like @puzzmo.com … www.puzzmo.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
if you cancel your NYT games subscription there’s great alternatives for newspaper games like @puzzmo.com … www.puzzmo.com
Not a great look and raises questions of whether failing to disclose AI-generated content in the game creates liability to consumers who would have chosen not to purchase if they had been aware in advance.
11-Bit Studios acknowledges the use of AI-generated text in The Alters
11-Bit Studios says that AI-generated assets were used temporarily during the development process and should have been removed.
www.gamesindustry.biz
July 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Not a great look and raises questions of whether failing to disclose AI-generated content in the game creates liability to consumers who would have chosen not to purchase if they had been aware in advance.
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Storepage for our next game Penguin Colony is now LIVE on Steam. Be sure to give it a wishlist. We will have a Trailer and Demo in the coming months. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/Penguin_Colony/
June 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Storepage for our next game Penguin Colony is now LIVE on Steam. Be sure to give it a wishlist. We will have a Trailer and Demo in the coming months. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/Penguin_Colony/
Rolled credits on the android version of Northgard. Slow paced RTS is v nice to work through while watching kids. And really nice that we're starting to get quality ports of older pc games as an alternative to the generally low quality of most mobile/tablet games.
June 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Rolled credits on the android version of Northgard. Slow paced RTS is v nice to work through while watching kids. And really nice that we're starting to get quality ports of older pc games as an alternative to the generally low quality of most mobile/tablet games.
A good friend and Kiwi artist had her Instagram account hacked just before her upcoming album release and of course the account was binned rather than being returned to her.
Check her out and see if her jams are your speed:
open.spotify.com/artist/3Fwrv...
www.instagram.com/missy_listen...
Check her out and see if her jams are your speed:
open.spotify.com/artist/3Fwrv...
www.instagram.com/missy_listen...
MISSY
Artist · 17.4K monthly listeners.
open.spotify.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A good friend and Kiwi artist had her Instagram account hacked just before her upcoming album release and of course the account was binned rather than being returned to her.
Check her out and see if her jams are your speed:
open.spotify.com/artist/3Fwrv...
www.instagram.com/missy_listen...
Check her out and see if her jams are your speed:
open.spotify.com/artist/3Fwrv...
www.instagram.com/missy_listen...
It seemed pretty cut and dry, but nice to see Bungie's willingness to openly acknowledge the infringement - must have been an interesting day for their legal team when this one came in.
Bungie has confirmed claims that an artist's work was stolen and used in Marathon without her permission.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bungie-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bungie-...
Bungie confirms that an artist’s work was stolen and used in Marathon without their permission | VGC
The staff member responsible no longer works at Bungie…
www.videogameschronicle.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It seemed pretty cut and dry, but nice to see Bungie's willingness to openly acknowledge the infringement - must have been an interesting day for their legal team when this one came in.
A good reminder that the best way to protect your copyright (and potentially protect against infringement claims) is comprehensive and accessible record keeping. A unique challenge for game devs considering the size, format and changing architecture of games.
Bungie's content cycling on Destiny 2 causes legal kerfuffle in plagiarism suit
Bungie's content cycling on Destiny 2 causes legal kerfuffle in plagiarism suit
'Protecting yourself from plagiarism accusations' is an unusual reason to preserve your game but here we are.
www.gamedeveloper.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A good reminder that the best way to protect your copyright (and potentially protect against infringement claims) is comprehensive and accessible record keeping. A unique challenge for game devs considering the size, format and changing architecture of games.
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Reckons ...
Here we go again… why voting is not a privilege to be removed as punishment
thespinoff.co.nz
April 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reckons ...
Credits rolled on Blue Prince, wow. What a game and so much more game yet to see it seems?
April 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Credits rolled on Blue Prince, wow. What a game and so much more game yet to see it seems?
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Featuring comment from me. Said comment being, basically, it's bad for Parliament to throw out submissions you've solicited from the public unread, whether it's the TPB w/ 300k subs, or a boring technical tax tweak with 15.
Corrosive to democracy and the Committee should reconsider.
Corrosive to democracy and the Committee should reconsider.
Prime Minister doubles down on allowing exclusion of Treaty Principles Bill submissions
But legal scholars warn the move sets a worrying precedent.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Featuring comment from me. Said comment being, basically, it's bad for Parliament to throw out submissions you've solicited from the public unread, whether it's the TPB w/ 300k subs, or a boring technical tax tweak with 15.
Corrosive to democracy and the Committee should reconsider.
Corrosive to democracy and the Committee should reconsider.
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March 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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"your opinion is worthless, shut the fuck up" is exactly the correct response to all the racist transphobic whiners bitching about the existence of anyone who isn't a white male in video games
March 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"your opinion is worthless, shut the fuck up" is exactly the correct response to all the racist transphobic whiners bitching about the existence of anyone who isn't a white male in video games
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this story is so fucking good, you all.
ok sincere post: im so fucking pumped to be able to post that im a nebula finalist. look at my boy go.
by boy, i of course mean my "scathing critique" and "short story" and "riff on ursula k le guins the ones who walk away from omelas"
by boy, i of course mean my "scathing critique" and "short story" and "riff on ursula k le guins the ones who walk away from omelas"
March 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
this story is so fucking good, you all.
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In our final report we expressly warned against cherry picking our recommendations and said that they should be a package or nothing …
FUNNY how only the '4y term' from the election review being introduced!
- 3.5% vote threshold
- No ‘coat-tail’ rule
- voting age 16
- capped political donations
- 4y term referendum
#nzpol #democracy #waste
newsroom.co.nz/2023/06/05/e...
- 3.5% vote threshold
- No ‘coat-tail’ rule
- voting age 16
- capped political donations
- 4y term referendum
#nzpol #democracy #waste
newsroom.co.nz/2023/06/05/e...
February 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In our final report we expressly warned against cherry picking our recommendations and said that they should be a package or nothing …