A screenshot from the 'indie music manager' video game.
A screenshot from the 'indie music manager' video game.
A taxpayer-funded video game aimed at training prospective Kiwi music managers has been released.
InGame was given $287,460 in New Zealand On Air funding in 2011 to develop the 'indie music manager' video game.
The game can be played on its website or downloaded as asmartphone app.
It invites those playing to select a real Kiwi artist - either Tiki Taane, Street Chant, I Am Giant or Princess Chelsea - to manage in a virtual world.
Players are then taken through a series of challenges, from breaking down on the way to a gig to buying new equipment, as they try to navigate their band to international success.
