{"id":105543,"date":"2016-09-27T10:04:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=105543"},"modified":"2016-09-28T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T12:07:18","slug":"these-south-african-game-developers-just-moved-to-a-tropical-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/105543-these-south-african-game-developers-just-moved-to-a-tropical-island","title":{"rendered":"These South African game developers just moved to a tropical island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African game developer Free Lives Games has moved to Mauritius for three months, along with a number of other developers.<\/p>\n<p>The Broforce development team has been documenting their experience in a series called Game Jam Island.<\/p>\n<p>While the trip may seem like a holiday, the game developers are still hard at work on upcoming projects while relaxing in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The Game Jam Island series grants an often hilarious insight into the developers&#8217; daily activities, such as late-night swims and social events.<\/p>\n<p>Free Lives programmer Richard Pieterse joked that the team was in Mauritius \u201cbecause we\u2019re not good at making life choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Free Lives artist Filip Orekhov gave another tongue-in-cheek explanation for the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBroforce made, like, a crap ton of money,\u201d he teased. \u201cAnd we\u2019re trying to find ways to spend it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the first episode of Game Jam Island below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TLicq93Uhg0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to One team dominates South African eSports \u2013 is that a good thing?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/104819-one-team-dominates-south-african-esports-is-that-a-good-thing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">One team dominates South African eSports \u2013 is that a good thing?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The one bad thing every reviewer is saying about the PS4 Slim\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/105467-the-one-bad-thing-every-reviewer-is-saying-about-the-ps4-slim.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The one bad thing every reviewer is saying about the PS4 Slim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 7 budget 4K TVs you can buy in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/105001-7-budget-4k-tvs-you-can-buy-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">7 budget 4K TVs you can buy in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coolest game developers on the planet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":105545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[31,10804,10805,4567,8022,15579,22181],"class_list":["post-105543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-broforce","tag-free-lives","tag-funny","tag-holiday","tag-island","tag-mauritius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105549,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105543\/revisions\/105549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}