So I'm finally done with school and can face my game development career properly. I start researching the competition (I'm Nigerian. Was looking for African gae devs) and find these guys. They just put their game, Aurion, legacy of the Ori-Odan up n Steam greenlight and traffic exploded. You can't even access their website, www.kiroogames.com, because as they said to me on twitter when I asked if their site was down, " yeah sorry it seems we had too more trafic the proviider cut it for the moment we will take a dedicated server soon". Even Kotaku posted an article about the game http://kotaku.com/not-every-fantasy-world-has-to-be-european-1685083542

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=386449558

I know you've seen better games before, but this is pretty awesome for something developed in Cameroon. I haven't gotten to South African devs yet in my research so I might still find some other really awesome stuff.

I think I remember hearing about this game way back when it was still in the conceptual stages. Looks like it turned out rather well. Kind of reminds me of Dust: An Elysian Tail.

Looks awesome

If you want South African devs look no further than ( http://www.makegamessa.com ). Its got a really active and helpful community. One of the guys who worked on Broforce is a regular there, a decent amount of games posted there eventually get greenlit. I got really helpful and brutally honest advice from them woth my own "game" as well ( http://makegamessa.com/discussion/1972/the-scnd-genesis/p1 ). Its your best shot at finding an active African dev community so start there. Im not sure about the West or East African scene. Our local scene is non existant but interest is growning. When my first attempt at making a "game" got a random review on a random blog that very few people have ever heard of I got inspired to do a followup (https://indiegraph.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/scnd-genesis-legends-review/). Its surprisingly easy to get into but you have to be fairly good, surround yourself with the right people and be persistent. You also have to learn how to take criticism, both legit and trolling, cause you get it a lot.

Will do. I'll check out your game as well. You are in which country and you started devloping seriously how long ago?

I'm in Zambia, feel free to go HAM with google. My 1st game started out as a hobby in college to improve on my coding skills. I have a blog post about it here, you can even see shots of how it "evolved" lol. http://www.scndgen.com/#blog_1203030_legacy_a

Please someone should post a video of the Aurion game here, and/or teach me how to post videos in the OP. Short of editing the html, I see no way to do it in the OP tools.

That's really cool gameplay. Gotta tell a friend of mine.

An african devoloped game, that should be supported

Looks cool. Also, interesting that 2 out of 3 of the founders are European.