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African computer game makers

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GhanaThink Managing Executive abocco

The inaugural winner of our GhanaThink Foundation Invitational Programming Contest dubbed 1.GTPC.06 is in the news again. See information about the competition and the winning entry

In an effort to revive Africa's dormant game production industry, two leading game producers from Kenya and Ghana have teamed up.
Wesley Kiriinya, Kenya's top video game producer, and Eyram Tawia of Ghana are collaborating to produce world-class games. Kiriinya, who is the technical director at Sinc-studios, produced Kenya's first video game, "Adventures of Nyangi." The game is based on African folklore, a feature he intends to present to the world stage.

Rest of the news here
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/050708-kenya-ghana-collaboration-s...

We'll keep tabs of their exploits here. Does anyone know of any other African computer game makers/programmers?

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paa.kwesi

I very much like this

I very much like this idea--entertainment content creation from our point of view. Outside music (e.g. www.museke.com) there's little else local content for consumption.

Abocco, if you still have the contact details of these guys please tell them this:

-- it's not the best idea to obsess about protecting their work right now when they're unknown. This is the time to give it away, get as many eyeballs as possible to see it and get excited about it. And no, I don't mean a "demo" version. After 2-3 years they'll have enough of a critical mass to charge for say upgrades. I suggest that if they can get their work in front of an audience so that if even only 5-10% pay for an upgrade they'll be able to pay their bills, this will not be another pipe-dream.

-- it's not the game itself they should be selling--but the story-line behind the game. That's the only thing over which they can claim some sort of comparative advantage. Simply because if EA decides to make a game with African characters, the only thing they'll lack is a good story line not the game technology.

Cynkro.com folks also made a football game for the African Cup of Nations and I suggested the same thing to them.

With the same game idea you could make cartoons for TV for making kiddies happy. Think an action series with dialog in Twi, oh baby! Have come across this: moviestorm.co.uk. They use game software for making movies. Anyone interested in the TV idea shd ping me :)

r

Good points

TV is probably too expensive; why not twi comics via internet? I guess readers are prepared to pay US$2 per weekly/monthly issue, downloading each issue in pdf or read online html version after payment clearance.