{"id":61478,"date":"2014-01-20T02:44:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T00:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61478"},"modified":"2014-01-20T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T08:25:15","slug":"sa-game-dev-stats-local-industry-gaining-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61478-sa-game-dev-stats-local-industry-gaining-strength","title":{"rendered":"SA game dev stats &#8211; local industry gaining strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Make Games SA association of developers has revealed some interesting <a title=\"Make Games SA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makegamessa.com\/discussion\/1559\/a-summary-of-what-mgsa-sa-game-dev-did-in-2013\" target=\"_blank\">stats<\/a> from the 2013 year in local game development, showing how things are going from strength to strength.<\/p>\n<p>SA devs saw 5 games Greenlit on Steam, with 4 more waiting for approval. 2 games were successful on Kickstarter. 18 games were released by South African developers in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make Games SA stats &#8211; 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prototypes posted in 2013: \u00b1207<\/li>\n<li>Art works posted: \u00b1132<\/li>\n<li>Music\/Sound pieces posted \u00b123 (only five of these were outside the sound competitions run).<\/li>\n<li>Jobs Posted: \u00b128<\/li>\n<li>Paid jobs: 16<\/li>\n<li>Profit Sharing Jobs: 2<\/li>\n<li>Unclear Payment Jobs: 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steam Greenlit Games: 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broforce<\/li>\n<li>Pixelboy<\/li>\n<li>Rook&#8217;s Keep<\/li>\n<li>Viscera Cleanup Detail<\/li>\n<li>Stasis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Awaiting Greenlight: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Khumba: The Game<\/li>\n<li>The Maker&#8217;s Eden<\/li>\n<li>zX: Hyperblast<\/li>\n<li>Toxic Bunny HD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kickstarted Games: 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total funds raised: $167 000<\/li>\n<li>Stasis: &#8211; $140 000<\/li>\n<li>Ancient Terrible Things &#8211; $27 000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Released Games: 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dig! &#8211; Tasty Poison<\/li>\n<li>Neon Shadow &#8211; Tasty Poison<\/li>\n<li>Rhino Raid &#8211; Tasty Poison<\/li>\n<li>Snailboy &#8211; Thoopid!<\/li>\n<li>Bounty Arms &#8211; Open Reset + Luma Arcade<\/li>\n<li>Love Dodge &#8211; Pure Fun Games<\/li>\n<li>Fleet of One &#8211; Polymorph Systems<\/li>\n<li>Soccer Moves &#8211; Fuzzy Logic<\/li>\n<li>PartyTouch &#8211; codeRooster<\/li>\n<li>Tortuga Tales Pinball &#8211; Ian Pienaar<\/li>\n<li>Eskom Energy Planner &#8211; Forumula D Interactive<\/li>\n<li>Greed City &#8211; Lighthouse Games Studio<\/li>\n<li>Zombie Voice Box &#8211; Lighthouse Games Studio<\/li>\n<li>The Harvest &#8211; Luma Arcade<\/li>\n<li>Dark Project &#8211; Dark Faction<\/li>\n<li>Desktop Dungeons &#8211; QCF Design<\/li>\n<li>Rooks Keep &#8211; RuneStorm<\/li>\n<li>Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa&#8217;s Rampage &#8211; RuneStorm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Games in active Development: 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cadence &#8211; Made With Monster Love<\/li>\n<li>Blazin&#8217; Aces HD &#8211; Duncan Bell<\/li>\n<li>Viscera Cleanup Detail &#8211; RuneStorm<\/li>\n<li>Ancient Terrible Things &#8211; Pleasant Co Games<\/li>\n<li>Stasis &#8211; The Brotherhood<\/li>\n<li>Zombie Apocalypse Arcade<\/li>\n<li>Broforce &#8211; Free Lives<\/li>\n<li>The Maker&#8217;s Eden &#8211; Screwy Lightbulb<\/li>\n<li>Clash? &#8211; Clash Dev<\/li>\n<li>Khumba: The Game &#8211; SIJO Studios<\/li>\n<li>Death Smashers &#8211; Free Lives<\/li>\n<li>PixelBoy &#8211; Giant Box Games<\/li>\n<li>Atajrubah &#8211; Nexy Media<\/li>\n<li>Bear Chuck? &#8211; Steven Tu<\/li>\n<li>zX: Hyperblast &#8211; RetroFuture<\/li>\n<li>System Crash &#8211; Rogue Moon Studios<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Games invited to international festivals: 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silhoutte &#8211; Manikan Games &#8211; Rezzed<\/li>\n<li>Desktop Dungeons &#8211; QCF Design &#8211; Minecon<\/li>\n<li>Broforce &#8211; Free Lives &#8211; A MAZE Germany, Minecon<\/li>\n<li>A Day in The Woods (RetroEpic) &#8211; A MAZE Germany<\/li>\n<li>Desktop Dungeons &#8211; QCF Design &#8211; A MAZE Germany<\/li>\n<li>Escape Velocity &#8211; Richard Pieterse &#8211; A MAZE Germany<\/li>\n<li>zX: Hyperblast &#8211; RetroFuture &#8211; A MAZE Germany<\/li>\n<li>Giving, Giving Gone &#8211; Wits Students &#8211; Games For Change Festival<\/li>\n<li>Eskom Energy Planner &#8211; Forumula D Interactive &#8211; Games For Change Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Source <a title=\"Make Games SA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makegamessa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Make Games SA<\/a> via <a title=\"el33tonline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.el33tonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">el33tonline<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Make Games SA seeks government recognition\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60433-make-games-sa-seeks-government-recognition.html\" target=\"_blank\">Make Games SA seeks government recognition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61498-fable-trilogy-revealed-launch-date-announced.html\">Fable Trilogy revealed, launch date announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61490-bioshock-movie-concept-art-is-gorgeous.html\">BioShock movie concept art is gorgeous<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61484-team-fortress-2-stats-highlight-success-of-free-to-play-model.html\">Team Fortress 2 stats highlight success of free-to-play model<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make Games SA has revealed some stats from its development community over the year 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":60435,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,11747,11746,2752,5793],"class_list":["post-61478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-make-games-south-africa","tag-mgsa","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61478","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=61478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}