{"id":14,"date":"2026-05-16T04:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world-exe.nz\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:37:08","slug":"hub","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/polyd.nz\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Polydina Flynt<\/strong><\/p>

Hi there, my artist name and pen name are Polydina Flynt.<\/p>

I live in Wellington, New Zealand.<\/p>

I\u2019m building toward a nomadic creative life, where my studio can travel with me.<\/p>

I\u2019m a speculative fiction writer, video artist and digital systems designer.<\/p>

I write mostly cerebral, voice-driven, character-centred stories with terminally introverted characters and weirdos with their own fixations and machinations. Reacting to alien backgrounds, and attempting to co-exist without dying violent deaths. Post-punk grimdark, often with b-movie homage settings \u2013 but driven by intellectual characters and complex systems.<\/p>

My creative journey began in the unlikeliest of places, the back of a truck.<\/p>

When I was sixteen my dad helped me get a job assisting the driver on his rounds and unloading and reloading the truck \u2013 to keep me out of trouble. I was so unfathomably bored that I was motivated to figure out what to do with my life.<\/p>

At a careers expo I discovered applied art.<\/p>

Fast forward from 1999 to 2013, two degrees (one in creative writing with merit in short fiction and the other in art direction for short film and 2d animation) later, I began freelancing as a web developer, building a website for a school and several local artists. That wasn\u2019t much fun \u2013 but it took two years to get through, so then I switched to being a scriptwriting coach.<\/p>

Five years later, 2020-2023, I focused on building my technical skills, learning Game Maker Studio after bits and pieces of JavaScript, C++ and Python, studying video game environment art with Gimp, and experimenting with machinima and video projects for Vimeo. I also continued writing short fiction and comics, building software art, and designing tabletop games.<\/p>

Since 2023 I\u2019ve been developing my creative practice across video art, storytelling, indie game development, and software art. My portfolio is the result of this three-year period of focused making, experimentation, and worldbuilding.<\/p>

In November of 2026, I will be releasing all of the most finished projects I\u2019ve been working on which is 15 pieces, including a digital collectable card game demo and the\u00a0Shards of the Wall<\/em>\u00a0film campaign. One of the 15 is a giant zine of 16 coffee-fueled conversations with nerd culture professionals and a few collectors from around the world in a variety of niche industries. I\u2019ve been working on this zine for three years, it releases in July.<\/p>

The other 12 projects are: a choreography video, a short narrative film on video, lore drop 1,\u00a0Dungeon of Cats\u00a0<\/em>TTRPG, an indie video game (with open-source prototype version), Machinima season 1, open-source theatre script for sale via Etsy, research book 1 self-published via KDP (at 300pgs), some software art via itch, my first self-published literary SciFi novella and 2 literary micro-budget feature film screenplays.<\/p>

Human stories about transformation, told through handcrafted speculative worlds, where ideas, design, and emotional truth matter more than spectacle or convention.<\/strong><\/p>

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Influences:<\/strong><\/p>

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Glen Duncan, Greg Egan, Andy Weir, Doug Coupland, Patrick McGrath, F. Paul Wilson, Alan Glynn, jxiidxii, Juhana Myllys, Arnt Jensen, Eric Chahi, Davey Wreden, LuxuryMuck, Spexxy.<\/p>

Jhonen Vasquez, Al Pyun, Jim Henson, David Cronenberg, Carruth, Hertzfeldt, Jeunet, Small, Peter Chung, Joe Penhall, artscum.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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