Created by Weza Interactive Entertainment. Fly, and stomp your way through these levels, smashing your way through obstacles and stomping on dwarfs, trolls, executioners, and fight strategically with Soronko and kyewaa the evil witch. Power outages, and an unstable internet connection due to Cameroon’s developing infrastructure, led to some innovative solutions.

And so with slingshot in hand, Kade’s adventure begins.

Despite only having been funded 6 months ago, Kiro’o Games have wasted no time and Aurion is now available on. “But we are doing in 60 years in Africa what everywhere else has done in 200. It's expected to double by 2021. However, one continent where gaming has struggled to find its feet is Africa.

His quest to save his village and its people from destruction leads him on a journey with unexpected events. When Kade gets to the shop he spots a shiny new bicycle that he must have by all mean. Thank us later. He is encountered by different interesting characters. That was a slap in the face.”. Africa’s first fantasy RPG became a reality last year when when Aurion was successfully funded on Kickstarter.

"It's just really about empowering the people, showing them they can be the heroes of Africa.". When Kade gets to the shop he spots a shiny new bicycle that he must have by all mean. The game tells a story of a hero’s quest to solve the plights of his people. And do it without just copying success from others and putting it in ‘African colours’.”.
Co-founded by Eyram Tawia and Wesley Kirinya, the Ghana-based studio functions as a double-pronged machine – producing video games as well as comic books based on African characters. He runs back home to his mother to ask for money to buy the bike but she tells him that he must earn the money himself. "We envision a future where we've produced a game from here, so from Africa to the world.".
African nations by estimated 2016 game revenue. “We decided to turn [the power outages] into brainstorming sessions to polish our game concept, and get feedback from the team. Democracy 3: Africa (D3A) is a political simulation game developed by Positech Games. The levels of the game are inspired by real life African locations such as: Fontainhas – Cape Verde, Lake Nakuru – Kenya, Congo Rain Forest – Congo and Victoria falls – Zimbabwe and Zambia. Third year student at University of Lagos, David Mustapha, is trying to solve long food queues at eateries on campus. However, one continent where gaming has struggled to find its feet is Africa. Think your child should be learning how to code but not sure how to go about it? Around the World in Eighty Games. Now is your chance to find out! Morabaraba is a traditional African game played by many in South Africa. Without warning Ngarba Evou, Enzo’s brother-in-law initiated a coup and Enzo and Ernie were forced to flee Zama. Kadè doesn’ t like this idea very much and prefers a quicker way to get the money for the bike.

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The demo is now available for free on the android mobile OS but creators Akdogan Ali and Iruo Imusu are currently raising funds on GoFundMe in order to further develop the game. Latest UK advice as 'travel corridor' removed. Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a post that first appeared on the Kugali blog.

The demo is now available for free on the android mobile OS but creators Akdogan Ali and Iruo Imusu are currently raising funds on GoFundMe in order to further develop the game.

, where your fighting abilities will be tested to their ultimate limits!

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In total, the app has been downloaded 20,000 times on all platforms so far. “When we tried to register the game we were asked for a lot of obscure administrative papers since we were not in the Western world.”. “The most epic part was uploading the game [to Steam] using my smartphone as a modem because our internet provider was not stable enough.”. His responses have been edited for clarity.

Video gaming is now a rapidly growing market in Africa, and start-ups are springing up across the continent to produce games with African themes.

People complained about the graphics being poor.

Africa’s Legends is a vast superhero universe steeped in real mythology, culture and history from across Africa – all brought up-to-date to tackle the modern-day issues which affect every African. Olivier was determined to make a game that could be taken seriously on the world stage. “There was no [gaming] community, just players scattered in really tiny groups, mainly getting their games through piracy.”. But we are revealing ourselves to the outside world now.”.

In Kenya, the video games market was worth over $50m (£38m) in 2016. Morgan Gray is a veteran in the video game industry and has worked on many popular games, such as Tomb Raider, Star Wars and most recently The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. [The World would be saying] ‘we knew they couldn’t make it.’, “We were also focused on showing our own people that we can do it. is a 2D Endless platformer mobile game.

It wouldn’t be until around 2012 when work on Aurion would really pick up, with crowd-funding site Kickstarter giving Olivier a new lease of life and the ability to launch his studio. "We've got young Africans who have travelled, they're widely exposed, they're thinking, 'Hey, how come I'm not seeing someone who looks like me or speaks like me in some of the games that I'm playing?' Enzo was scheduled to marry his lifelong love Erine Evou and be crowned the new King.

You play as the fictional soldier Otero, who is part of the GSU Recce squad, and it’s your job to save the city from the alien invasion.

Facebook’s Nigeria office plans is another validation for the Lagos metropolis, which has enjoyed memorable visits from global tech’s big wigs including Sundar Pichai of Google, Jack Dorsey of Twitter and, of course, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. The game follows the story of Kade, a mischievous young boy who is sent to the shop by his mother to buy a few items for her. The gameplay is centred on 2D real time combat sequences and powerful duels with immersive fighting dialogues.

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At the time, there were no video game companies in Kenya, so he decided to start one with his brother James and friend Joshua Ayugi.