Games galore at Goethe Institute’s Games Mixer in Parkwood
PARKWOOD – Twenty-five local and international game developers gather in Johannesburg to showcase their work.
The Goethe Institute in Parkwood hosted 25 international game developers over a week to exchange and create new games and try new games at the Games Mixer.
The Games Mixer, which takes place from 16 to 24 November, was previously hosted in Brazil and Indonesia with much success. The week-long series of events included a games camp, an internal showcase of the various games, studio visits and a public showcase of the games on 22 November.
Stefanie Kastner, the head of the library and information services for sub-Saharan Africa, told the Rosebank Killarney Gazette that the Games Mixer had been a wonderful success with many ideas exchanged during the process. For the public showcase of the games, she added that many people had come to see the various games on display.
Among those in attendance at the annual Games Mixer were game developers from Germany, Uganda, Brazil and Nigeria as well as three South African game developers.
The Games Mixer aims to promote an exchange of ideas and experiences between game developers from around the world. It also seeks to include developers from a variety of countries including those in Africa to mix up the international games development scene.
Kastner added that while some of the games showcased during the mixer are already on the market some are still being developed.
Some of the games showcased included Volantia, a game developed by South Africa’s Marc Luck which requires the user to put together shattered pieces of a continent ‘in order to forge a prosperous new society amongst the clouds’.
Game developer and architect Nahom Teklu from Ethiopia also showcased his game Battle of the Times. Teklu said that many people view Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, as a terrible city while others think it is great. His game aims to showcase all parameters of the city by allowing players to take a journey through the city in the past, present and future while tackling different tasks.
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