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How RocketWerkz hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

RocketWerkz scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

RocketWerkz is a New Zealand game studio founded by the creator of DayZ. It develops survival and simulation titles including Stationeers and Icarus. The company is one of the largest independent game developers in the country.

News

News SCM 11 months ago
DayZ creator says frameworks are the future of game dev
LLMs play a surprising role in a revival for language-based programming in game development, says Rocketwerkz CEO Dean Hall.
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News NZ Herald 5 years ago
Video game entrepreneur's fury at Stuart Nash's Amazon deal
The head of New Zealand's second-largest gaming studio says he's been kneecapped by the Government - and specifically Economic Development Minister Stuart...
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News Eurogamer.net 9 years ago
RocketWerkz unveils procedural "neo-noir" open-world game Living Dark
UPDATE 14TH DECEMBER: A second teaser for Living Dark has been released, focusing on a character called Algo Azul who c…
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News VG247 9 years ago
Living Dark is the new game from Dean Hall's studio, RocketWerkz - check out this first teaser
RocketWerkz has announced Living Dark, a "neo-noir adventure driven by a procedural narrative", with a short teaser tra…
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News Gameranx 10 years ago
RocketWerkz Unveils Latest Video Game Out of Ammo
Dean Hall reveals Out of Ammo an HTC Vive exclusive.
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News GameRant 12 years ago
'DayZ' Creator Dean Hall Unveils His New Studio: RocketWerkz
'DayZ' creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall is officially ready for life after the 'Arma 2' mod, announcing his new game studio.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at RocketWerkz over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
7
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
82/100
Languages
C++
C#
Frameworks & libraries
Unity
Unreal Engine
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Developer tools
Claude Code
Copilot
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$78k
Typical range
$78k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $78k $78k
Highest paying role Senior Game Programmer (C#) $78k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
3
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
147 days
faster than 10% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Games
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Discord to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Auckland
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Dunedin New Zealand
HQ
Auckland New Zealand
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 100% engineering $78k Avg Salary
hires for Games
seen since Oct 2022 job postings

Jobs

≈ $44k – $117k per year (Estimated) • In office • 6+ years exp • Auckland
C#
C++
Claude Code
DevOps
GitHub
Game Dev
Unity
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$57k – $79k per year • In office • 8+ years exp • Auckland
C#
C++
Copilot
DevOps
GitHub
Game Dev
Unity
Unreal Engine
Management
Discord
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In office • Full-Time • Auckland
C#
C++
Unity
Unreal Engine
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