{"id":40090,"date":"2012-06-22T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40090"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:28:55","slug":"sa-game-dev-shut-down-make-games-sa-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40090-sa-game-dev-shut-down-make-games-sa-launched","title":{"rendered":"SA Game Dev shut down, Make Games SA launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet,” said Jack London, trying to compile the code for his latest AI pathfinding routine, before giving up and deciding to write a book.<\/p>\n

For those not active among the local game development scene, a cornerstone of the community has been shut down – SA Game Dev<\/a> is no more.<\/p>\n

Website operator Jacques “Korax” Krige communicated the closer through a tweet:<\/p>\n

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Game developers are a creative bunch though, and from the ashes has arisen Make Games SA. The site was created by Danny “dislekcia” Day of local indie dev success story, QCF.<\/p>\n

In his welcoming post on the website, Day said: “This forum was created after the untimely demise of SA Game Dev, a forum that had recently started turning into a positive and functional community. I hope that we can take the same spirit that was blossoming there and infuse it into this place.”<\/p>\n

Things are very much in the birthing stage, so now is as good a time as any to get on over to Make Games SA<\/a> and support SA’s aspiring game developers, whether you are one yourself, or merely have a passing interest in the hobbyist pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New community website for aspiring South African game developers fills the gap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":40097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5189,21,553,5188,5192,5191,2052,5190],"class_list":["post-40090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-danny-day","tag-headline","tag-indie","tag-makes-games-sa","tag-qcf","tag-sa-game-dev","tag-sa-gaming","tag-sagd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}