I’ve come across a few great websites recently, which brought a number of different things to my attention, mainly in the field of game development in Africa. As a South African, my focus has mainly been on the struggle to build up a gaming industry in South Africa, and comparing our development to that in other areas of the world, mainly to those countries classified as ‘First World’. Recently however, whilst browsing the website White African, which deals with Africa and technology, I came across a feature on Africans in the gaming industry, and was pleasantly surprised to find a number of different games that I had been unaware of up until now. One of these was a game made by Gwimgrafxstudios called ‘Adventures of Nyangi‘ as well as a game made in Ghana called ‘Sword of Sygos‘. Additionally a MMO game that unfortunately has perhaps been abandoned (I cant find information to the contrary) called ‘Africa‘ has been promoted by MTV.
There are a number of other South African games around, most notably from the now defunct I-Imagine, and recently another studio has opened up called Mann Made Games, a child company of Mann Made Media.
The talent and the initiative is out there to encourage a strong African game development industry, we just need to be aware of what’s going on around us.
For additional information if you’re interested you might want to check out SAGameDev and GameDotDev for news on the local industry.
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