Hopeful South African game designers – 24Bit games is offering free memberships to the IESA

8 May 2016

24Bit games are offering 25 student memberships to the newly-launched IESA.

This applies to any students studying to enter the games industry in South Africa including “game design, engineering, audio, project management, or any other field of study as long as your goals are to enter the local game development industry upon graduation”.

Interested students can send through a brief letter detailing themselves, why they have chosen to study game development, and what they hope to go on to achieve once entering the industry, to [email protected].

What is the IESA?

Interactive Entertainment South Africa (often shortened to IESA) is a non-profit company that is mandated to lobbying, develop policy and help grow the local game, serious games, simulation, board-game, augmented reality and VR industries.

You can read more about the organisation on its official site or in its prospectus.


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