Founder\'s Square [
clear filter]
10:00 SAST
19:00 SAST
Main Exhibition
Exhibits 
Pixel Perfex
Earth Atlantis is an "Open-World" retro-style side-scrolling shooter with an original "Monster-Hunting" gameplay. The game is presented in a very unique and artistic “old sketching” visual style. We want to achieve the look of an “old explorer sketchbook” to express the...
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Evan Greenwood, Olivié Keck, Jason Sutherland and Filip Orekhov
Wander through a strange and musical park, listen to the sky, hear the falling leaves.
Aaron Oldenburg
Visit the cremation site of Pol Pot as a sleepwalker. Interpret the world your character is inhabiting by their gestures and brief glimpses inside their head. This game does not have an ending until you decide to leave. Game time is connected to the current real time in Cambodia...
Read More →
Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan
Closer is an interactive game exploring proximity, intimacy, and how we move together. Closer is played cooperatively, it is a game for two people.
Pol Clarissou
A short networked wandering experience about an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes left to live.
Team Lazerbeam
Wrestling With Emotions is a cute, quirky, wrestling-themed, dating simulator. Take on the role of a lonely young wrestler, create your persona and speed date your way through 8 hunks in your quest for the perfect match.
James Earl Cox III, Julie Buchanan, and Joe Cox
‘You Must be 18 or Older to Enter’ recreates the feeling and situation of being a prepubescent kid looking at porn for the first time. Through interactive fiction elements combined with ASCII styled art, ‘You Must be 18 or Older to Enter’ blurs several genres together to create...
Read More →
Wild Rose Games
Enzo is an approachable, curious and challenging toy that puts players in control of a beam of light as it reflects off the inner walls of an ominous disc. I think the draw of enzo is a combination of initial curiosity ("how does it work? what do I do?") with problem solving ("how...
Read More →
Andrea Hayes, Benjamin Crooks, Sean Goncalves
A Hands-On Experience is a rag-doll based game where players play as naughty museum-goers who have an urge to touch all the delicate and rare artworks/artifacts as much as possible to earn points to win the game.
Robbie Fraser and Pavel Savchuk
Sky Farm is a management game about constructing farms on a floating island; and then optimizing your design to produce the highest possible farming output!It was made in three days for Isolation Jam 2016 at the Kollafoss game residency in Iceland.
Andrea Hayes
Switch Forward is a web-based game that aims to explore the desensitization of violence in users of the internet. It gives control to the user and allows them to put someone through torture, but they can stop whenever they want too. But when/does the user stop?
Megan Hughes
A short Twine experience that puts players in the mind of someone experiences a Schizophrenic break from reality. The idea is to allow people to better understand these kinds of people - understand what they're going through, rather than be afraid of them. The more understanding we...
Read More →
iNK Stories
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 19...
Read More →
Akdogan Ali and Iruo Umusu
Throne of gods is an epic fighting game based on African mythology. created by a pair of Africans, self thought in Game development.
Free Lives
Defeat the Nazi scourge using only a gun, a pile of knives, and your understanding of physics.
Parallel Circles
Flat Heroes is a minimalistic, super intense action game featuring squares for 1 to 4 players. The design has been focused on creating a simple but delightful control that allows the players to move around the scenario in a super fluid way to beat all the challenging scenarios that...
Read More →
Manos Agianniotakis
A short interactive story based on an interview by Tim Grayburn describing his struggles with male clinical depression. The project is designed as a bite sized experience that forces the player in the shoes of a self victimised, trapped man.
Megan Hughes
Twine interactive story about life as a woman - the things that one might not realise weigh on the minds of women in normal day to day life.
Peardrum
Shoot to Kill is a 'pixel noir' adventure game exploring the relationship between film and video games with a 16-bit, 16mm take on early Hollywood cinema
Biome Collective
Killbox is an online game and interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare, its complexities and consequences. It is an experience which explores the use of technology to transform and extend political and military power, and the abstraction of killing...
Read More →
Kiro'o Games
Aurion is an epic action RPG set in a wonderful African Fantasy world with a unique, open and dynamic fighting gameplay.
Evan Greenwood and Jason Sutherland
Is a game ever finished? How would you know?
Ben Sironko, Denver Coulson and Danny Nanni
Lightning is a spazzy shooter for 2 - 4 players, featuring expressive button mashing and jittery, metallic audiovisual chaos. Players try to hit each other with lightning, carefully tapping and holding buttons to overcome chance and zig zag their way to victory. The game includes...
Read More →
Francois van Niekerk
Shift the tiles around and and match them up. Soko Match is a cross between Sokoban and a Match-3 game. You can match 3 or more tiles in a row or column with the same color or number. Can you get to 15 matches?
Turtle Cream
The only game which is connect both of TV and Wii U gamepad screen. Player can jump from TV to gamepad, and vice versa.
BNOO Games
Discussing in a funny way a problem in my country.. using localized graphics characters
Accidental Queens
A Normal Lost Phone is a game where you’ve just found someones phone. To find out what happened to the owner, you’ll be able to search through the lost phone and all of its applications.It can be a treasure hunt or a complete invasion of privacy... depending on your point of view!The...
Read More →
Jenna Bass
PHONICITY is a virtual-reality-audio-documentary, 10 conversations with young Africans, recorded with binaural sound in Johannesburg, May 2016. Listen while following the route from the South African Reserve Bank, across Nelson Mandela Bridge, up Jan Smuts Avenue to the steps of...
Read More →
NFB and Minority Media
I Love Potatoes is an adventure game for 7 to 77 year olds that deals with social innovation and sustainable economy issues in a slightly absurd, funny and quirky manner. Available for the Web, tablets and mobiles (IOS and Android), this playful journey will teach the steps of social...
Read More →
Pieter Visser, Dawid Strauss, Deon van Heerden
A 1-4 Player local co-op bralwer that uses the combat mechanics of modern fighting games. Players start with a base set of moves, and purchase more from the Shadow Merchants as the run progresses. Players are rewarded for keeping it stylish, by varying the moves they use, they increases...
Read More →
One Life Remains
"La discipline du rectangle" is a game about constraints for one player/performer. The player is seen by a camera and his image is fed back to the screen, surrounded by a rectangle. By moving and resizing this rectangle and forbidding to cross its boundaries, the game forces the player...
Read More →
Somi
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. You are given a cellphone of an unknown owner. You must look for evidence of terrorism by hacking into the cellphone owner's account, under governmental coercion. Then inspecting the cellphone usage...
Read More →
Team REVISIONS
REVISIONS is an autobiographical series of vignettes with a metafictional twist.
Delphine Fourneau, Music by Glass Body
Sacramento is a game about capturing fleeting memories before they fade. You’ll wander through an ephemeral and uncanny landscape, flashback of moments I gathered on sketchbooks over the years. Drift aimlessly across time & space, enjoy the quiet while it lasts as life will soon...
Read More →
David Condolora and Brooke Condolora
Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure. Set in early 20th-century Scandinavia, the game's story branches through discovery in a series of encounters with creatures from folklore. You play as storyteller...
Read More →
is an autobiographical documentary game about T. The game follows her journey to uncover the truth about her parents’ work with Danish Intelligence during the Cold War. What was it that they did? And how could T not have known? Surreal elements, emotional connections, and history...
Read More →
Nyamakop
Semblance is a puzzle platformer where you mould the world. In a world made out of soft jelly material, and soft jelly people, one squashy being needs to get things done. Mould and deform the world in order to solve puzzles as you move throughout a strange world
Duncan Bell
A multiplayer taxi racing in South Africa.
Kobus vd walt and Ivo Sissolak
A first person shooter with a resolution of 64x64. *Also features a rocket launcher.
AlPixel Games
"Waiting in the Sky" is about reliving a moment of your childhood. Travelling in the backseat of a car, while you imagine you're using constellations to draw whatever you imagine. A small experience to relax and lose yourself for a few minutes.
Quicksand GamesLab
Antariksha Sanchar is a speculative science fiction adventure based on the vibrant cultures of South India. A point and click adventure, the game follows the life of a young Srinivasa Ramanujan, the renowned early twentieth century mathematician, and pushes the boundaries of cultural...
Read More →
Clockwork Acorn
Grow your line to reach the goal in Streamline. The hand-crafted puzzles contain a variety of unique interesting mechanics, and range from easy to fiendishly difficult. These should keep you busy for a while, but if you manage to finish them all, there is also an infinite mode with...
Read More →
Francois van Niekerk
Move your heart, make connections with others, and solve some fiendishly difficult puzzles. Pretty much an analogy for life, but with less admin. Will you pull at those heart strings?
Bahiyya Khan and Bracken Hall
Fuck the System is a quirky experimental game with unassuming heroes who save their own lives. The game explores different systems of oppression such as heteronormativity, patriarchy and depression. It's a coming of age story that deals with what it's like to be young and confused...
Read More →
Kevin Macfarlane
TimeStep is a top down, twin-stick shooter where time moves as the player moves. It was inspired by SUPERHOT.
Rasheed Abueideh, Wedad Irshad and Sarah Shawah
A game based on actual events tells a story of a little girl lives in a war zone
The Wall Games
z7am is an endless runner game for mobile devices that takes inspiration from the traffic jam of Casablanca city in a crazy and funny spirit. You drive car such as a red taxi or a big bus with the goal to reach the highest distance while avoiding other obstacles and city traps. Also...
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Wednesday August 31, 2016 19:00 - Thursday September 1, 2016 02:00 SAST
Founder's Square
41 Juta Street
19:15 SAST
19:30 SAST
Keynote by Lauren Beukes: Story is Everything
Speakers 
Lauren Beukes writes twisty novels, comics, screenplays, kids cartoons and tweets. Her books have been translated into 26 languages, optioned for film and TV and have won major international awards, including the Arthur C Clarke award and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Her...
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18:00 SAST
Main Exhibition
Exhibits 
Pixel Perfex
Earth Atlantis is an "Open-World" retro-style side-scrolling shooter with an original "Monster-Hunting" gameplay. The game is presented in a very unique and artistic “old sketching” visual style. We want to achieve the look of an “old explorer sketchbook” to express the...
Read More →
Evan Greenwood, Olivié Keck, Jason Sutherland and Filip Orekhov
Wander through a strange and musical park, listen to the sky, hear the falling leaves.
Aaron Oldenburg
Visit the cremation site of Pol Pot as a sleepwalker. Interpret the world your character is inhabiting by their gestures and brief glimpses inside their head. This game does not have an ending until you decide to leave. Game time is connected to the current real time in Cambodia...
Read More →
Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan
Closer is an interactive game exploring proximity, intimacy, and how we move together. Closer is played cooperatively, it is a game for two people.
Pol Clarissou
A short networked wandering experience about an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes left to live.
Team Lazerbeam
Wrestling With Emotions is a cute, quirky, wrestling-themed, dating simulator. Take on the role of a lonely young wrestler, create your persona and speed date your way through 8 hunks in your quest for the perfect match.
James Earl Cox III, Julie Buchanan, and Joe Cox
‘You Must be 18 or Older to Enter’ recreates the feeling and situation of being a prepubescent kid looking at porn for the first time. Through interactive fiction elements combined with ASCII styled art, ‘You Must be 18 or Older to Enter’ blurs several genres together to create...
Read More →
Wild Rose Games
Enzo is an approachable, curious and challenging toy that puts players in control of a beam of light as it reflects off the inner walls of an ominous disc. I think the draw of enzo is a combination of initial curiosity ("how does it work? what do I do?") with problem solving ("how...
Read More →
Andrea Hayes, Benjamin Crooks, Sean Goncalves
A Hands-On Experience is a rag-doll based game where players play as naughty museum-goers who have an urge to touch all the delicate and rare artworks/artifacts as much as possible to earn points to win the game.
Robbie Fraser and Pavel Savchuk
Sky Farm is a management game about constructing farms on a floating island; and then optimizing your design to produce the highest possible farming output!It was made in three days for Isolation Jam 2016 at the Kollafoss game residency in Iceland.
Andrea Hayes
Switch Forward is a web-based game that aims to explore the desensitization of violence in users of the internet. It gives control to the user and allows them to put someone through torture, but they can stop whenever they want too. But when/does the user stop?
Megan Hughes
A short Twine experience that puts players in the mind of someone experiences a Schizophrenic break from reality. The idea is to allow people to better understand these kinds of people - understand what they're going through, rather than be afraid of them. The more understanding we...
Read More →
iNK Stories
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 19...
Read More →
Akdogan Ali and Iruo Umusu
Throne of gods is an epic fighting game based on African mythology. created by a pair of Africans, self thought in Game development.
Free Lives
Defeat the Nazi scourge using only a gun, a pile of knives, and your understanding of physics.
Parallel Circles
Flat Heroes is a minimalistic, super intense action game featuring squares for 1 to 4 players. The design has been focused on creating a simple but delightful control that allows the players to move around the scenario in a super fluid way to beat all the challenging scenarios that...
Read More →
Manos Agianniotakis
A short interactive story based on an interview by Tim Grayburn describing his struggles with male clinical depression. The project is designed as a bite sized experience that forces the player in the shoes of a self victimised, trapped man.
Megan Hughes
Twine interactive story about life as a woman - the things that one might not realise weigh on the minds of women in normal day to day life.
Peardrum
Shoot to Kill is a 'pixel noir' adventure game exploring the relationship between film and video games with a 16-bit, 16mm take on early Hollywood cinema
Biome Collective
Killbox is an online game and interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare, its complexities and consequences. It is an experience which explores the use of technology to transform and extend political and military power, and the abstraction of killing...
Read More →
Kiro'o Games
Aurion is an epic action RPG set in a wonderful African Fantasy world with a unique, open and dynamic fighting gameplay.
Evan Greenwood and Jason Sutherland
Is a game ever finished? How would you know?
Ben Sironko, Denver Coulson and Danny Nanni
Lightning is a spazzy shooter for 2 - 4 players, featuring expressive button mashing and jittery, metallic audiovisual chaos. Players try to hit each other with lightning, carefully tapping and holding buttons to overcome chance and zig zag their way to victory. The game includes...
Read More →
Francois van Niekerk
Shift the tiles around and and match them up. Soko Match is a cross between Sokoban and a Match-3 game. You can match 3 or more tiles in a row or column with the same color or number. Can you get to 15 matches?
Turtle Cream
The only game which is connect both of TV and Wii U gamepad screen. Player can jump from TV to gamepad, and vice versa.
BNOO Games
Discussing in a funny way a problem in my country.. using localized graphics characters
Accidental Queens
A Normal Lost Phone is a game where you’ve just found someones phone. To find out what happened to the owner, you’ll be able to search through the lost phone and all of its applications.It can be a treasure hunt or a complete invasion of privacy... depending on your point of view!The...
Read More →
Jenna Bass
PHONICITY is a virtual-reality-audio-documentary, 10 conversations with young Africans, recorded with binaural sound in Johannesburg, May 2016. Listen while following the route from the South African Reserve Bank, across Nelson Mandela Bridge, up Jan Smuts Avenue to the steps of...
Read More →
NFB and Minority Media
I Love Potatoes is an adventure game for 7 to 77 year olds that deals with social innovation and sustainable economy issues in a slightly absurd, funny and quirky manner. Available for the Web, tablets and mobiles (IOS and Android), this playful journey will teach the steps of social...
Read More →
Pieter Visser, Dawid Strauss, Deon van Heerden
A 1-4 Player local co-op bralwer that uses the combat mechanics of modern fighting games. Players start with a base set of moves, and purchase more from the Shadow Merchants as the run progresses. Players are rewarded for keeping it stylish, by varying the moves they use, they increases...
Read More →
One Life Remains
"La discipline du rectangle" is a game about constraints for one player/performer. The player is seen by a camera and his image is fed back to the screen, surrounded by a rectangle. By moving and resizing this rectangle and forbidding to cross its boundaries, the game forces the player...
Read More →
Somi
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. You are given a cellphone of an unknown owner. You must look for evidence of terrorism by hacking into the cellphone owner's account, under governmental coercion. Then inspecting the cellphone usage...
Read More →
Team REVISIONS
REVISIONS is an autobiographical series of vignettes with a metafictional twist.
Delphine Fourneau, Music by Glass Body
Sacramento is a game about capturing fleeting memories before they fade. You’ll wander through an ephemeral and uncanny landscape, flashback of moments I gathered on sketchbooks over the years. Drift aimlessly across time & space, enjoy the quiet while it lasts as life will soon...
Read More →
David Condolora and Brooke Condolora
Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure. Set in early 20th-century Scandinavia, the game's story branches through discovery in a series of encounters with creatures from folklore. You play as storyteller...
Read More →
is an autobiographical documentary game about T. The game follows her journey to uncover the truth about her parents’ work with Danish Intelligence during the Cold War. What was it that they did? And how could T not have known? Surreal elements, emotional connections, and history...
Read More →
Nyamakop
Semblance is a puzzle platformer where you mould the world. In a world made out of soft jelly material, and soft jelly people, one squashy being needs to get things done. Mould and deform the world in order to solve puzzles as you move throughout a strange world
Duncan Bell
A multiplayer taxi racing in South Africa.
Kobus vd walt and Ivo Sissolak
A first person shooter with a resolution of 64x64. *Also features a rocket launcher.
AlPixel Games
"Waiting in the Sky" is about reliving a moment of your childhood. Travelling in the backseat of a car, while you imagine you're using constellations to draw whatever you imagine. A small experience to relax and lose yourself for a few minutes.
Quicksand GamesLab
Antariksha Sanchar is a speculative science fiction adventure based on the vibrant cultures of South India. A point and click adventure, the game follows the life of a young Srinivasa Ramanujan, the renowned early twentieth century mathematician, and pushes the boundaries of cultural...
Read More →
Clockwork Acorn
Grow your line to reach the goal in Streamline. The hand-crafted puzzles contain a variety of unique interesting mechanics, and range from easy to fiendishly difficult. These should keep you busy for a while, but if you manage to finish them all, there is also an infinite mode with...
Read More →
Francois van Niekerk
Move your heart, make connections with others, and solve some fiendishly difficult puzzles. Pretty much an analogy for life, but with less admin. Will you pull at those heart strings?
Bahiyya Khan and Bracken Hall
Fuck the System is a quirky experimental game with unassuming heroes who save their own lives. The game explores different systems of oppression such as heteronormativity, patriarchy and depression. It's a coming of age story that deals with what it's like to be young and confused...
Read More →
Kevin Macfarlane
TimeStep is a top down, twin-stick shooter where time moves as the player moves. It was inspired by SUPERHOT.
Rasheed Abueideh, Wedad Irshad and Sarah Shawah
A game based on actual events tells a story of a little girl lives in a war zone
The Wall Games
z7am is an endless runner game for mobile devices that takes inspiration from the traffic jam of Casablanca city in a crazy and funny spirit. You drive car such as a red taxi or a big bus with the goal to reach the highest distance while avoiding other obstacles and city traps. Also...
Read More →
10:00 SAST
12:00 SAST
Main Exhibition
Exhibits 
Pixel Perfex
Earth Atlantis is an "Open-World" retro-style side-scrolling shooter with an original "Monster-Hunting" gameplay. The game is presented in a very unique and artistic “old sketching” visual style. We want to achieve the look of an “old explorer sketchbook” to express the...
Read More →
Evan Greenwood, Olivié Keck, Jason Sutherland and Filip Orekhov
Wander through a strange and musical park, listen to the sky, hear the falling leaves.
Aaron Oldenburg
Visit the cremation site of Pol Pot as a sleepwalker. Interpret the world your character is inhabiting by their gestures and brief glimpses inside their head. This game does not have an ending until you decide to leave. Game time is connected to the current real time in Cambodia...
Read More →
Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan
Closer is an interactive game exploring proximity, intimacy, and how we move together. Closer is played cooperatively, it is a game for two people.
Pol Clarissou
A short networked wandering experience about an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes left to live.
Team Lazerbeam
Wrestling With Emotions is a cute, quirky, wrestling-themed, dating simulator. Take on the role of a lonely young wrestler, create your persona and speed date your way through 8 hunks in your quest for the perfect match.
James Earl Cox III, Julie Buchanan, and Joe Cox
‘You Must be 18 or Older to Enter’ recreates the feeling and situation of being a prepubescent kid looking at porn for the first time. Through interactive fiction elements combined with ASCII styled art, ‘You Must be 18 or Older to Enter’ blurs several genres together to create...
Read More →
Wild Rose Games
Enzo is an approachable, curious and challenging toy that puts players in control of a beam of light as it reflects off the inner walls of an ominous disc. I think the draw of enzo is a combination of initial curiosity ("how does it work? what do I do?") with problem solving ("how...
Read More →
Andrea Hayes, Benjamin Crooks, Sean Goncalves
A Hands-On Experience is a rag-doll based game where players play as naughty museum-goers who have an urge to touch all the delicate and rare artworks/artifacts as much as possible to earn points to win the game.
Robbie Fraser and Pavel Savchuk
Sky Farm is a management game about constructing farms on a floating island; and then optimizing your design to produce the highest possible farming output!It was made in three days for Isolation Jam 2016 at the Kollafoss game residency in Iceland.
Andrea Hayes
Switch Forward is a web-based game that aims to explore the desensitization of violence in users of the internet. It gives control to the user and allows them to put someone through torture, but they can stop whenever they want too. But when/does the user stop?
Megan Hughes
A short Twine experience that puts players in the mind of someone experiences a Schizophrenic break from reality. The idea is to allow people to better understand these kinds of people - understand what they're going through, rather than be afraid of them. The more understanding we...
Read More →
iNK Stories
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 19...
Read More →
Akdogan Ali and Iruo Umusu
Throne of gods is an epic fighting game based on African mythology. created by a pair of Africans, self thought in Game development.
Free Lives
Defeat the Nazi scourge using only a gun, a pile of knives, and your understanding of physics.
Parallel Circles
Flat Heroes is a minimalistic, super intense action game featuring squares for 1 to 4 players. The design has been focused on creating a simple but delightful control that allows the players to move around the scenario in a super fluid way to beat all the challenging scenarios that...
Read More →
Manos Agianniotakis
A short interactive story based on an interview by Tim Grayburn describing his struggles with male clinical depression. The project is designed as a bite sized experience that forces the player in the shoes of a self victimised, trapped man.
Megan Hughes
Twine interactive story about life as a woman - the things that one might not realise weigh on the minds of women in normal day to day life.
Peardrum
Shoot to Kill is a 'pixel noir' adventure game exploring the relationship between film and video games with a 16-bit, 16mm take on early Hollywood cinema
Biome Collective
Killbox is an online game and interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare, its complexities and consequences. It is an experience which explores the use of technology to transform and extend political and military power, and the abstraction of killing...
Read More →
Kiro'o Games
Aurion is an epic action RPG set in a wonderful African Fantasy world with a unique, open and dynamic fighting gameplay.
Evan Greenwood and Jason Sutherland
Is a game ever finished? How would you know?
Ben Sironko, Denver Coulson and Danny Nanni
Lightning is a spazzy shooter for 2 - 4 players, featuring expressive button mashing and jittery, metallic audiovisual chaos. Players try to hit each other with lightning, carefully tapping and holding buttons to overcome chance and zig zag their way to victory. The game includes...
Read More →
Francois van Niekerk
Shift the tiles around and and match them up. Soko Match is a cross between Sokoban and a Match-3 game. You can match 3 or more tiles in a row or column with the same color or number. Can you get to 15 matches?
Turtle Cream
The only game which is connect both of TV and Wii U gamepad screen. Player can jump from TV to gamepad, and vice versa.
BNOO Games
Discussing in a funny way a problem in my country.. using localized graphics characters
Accidental Queens
A Normal Lost Phone is a game where you’ve just found someones phone. To find out what happened to the owner, you’ll be able to search through the lost phone and all of its applications.It can be a treasure hunt or a complete invasion of privacy... depending on your point of view!The...
Read More →
Jenna Bass
PHONICITY is a virtual-reality-audio-documentary, 10 conversations with young Africans, recorded with binaural sound in Johannesburg, May 2016. Listen while following the route from the South African Reserve Bank, across Nelson Mandela Bridge, up Jan Smuts Avenue to the steps of...
Read More →
NFB and Minority Media
I Love Potatoes is an adventure game for 7 to 77 year olds that deals with social innovation and sustainable economy issues in a slightly absurd, funny and quirky manner. Available for the Web, tablets and mobiles (IOS and Android), this playful journey will teach the steps of social...
Read More →
Pieter Visser, Dawid Strauss, Deon van Heerden
A 1-4 Player local co-op bralwer that uses the combat mechanics of modern fighting games. Players start with a base set of moves, and purchase more from the Shadow Merchants as the run progresses. Players are rewarded for keeping it stylish, by varying the moves they use, they increases...
Read More →
One Life Remains
"La discipline du rectangle" is a game about constraints for one player/performer. The player is seen by a camera and his image is fed back to the screen, surrounded by a rectangle. By moving and resizing this rectangle and forbidding to cross its boundaries, the game forces the player...
Read More →
Somi
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. You are given a cellphone of an unknown owner. You must look for evidence of terrorism by hacking into the cellphone owner's account, under governmental coercion. Then inspecting the cellphone usage...
Read More →
Team REVISIONS
REVISIONS is an autobiographical series of vignettes with a metafictional twist.
Delphine Fourneau, Music by Glass Body
Sacramento is a game about capturing fleeting memories before they fade. You’ll wander through an ephemeral and uncanny landscape, flashback of moments I gathered on sketchbooks over the years. Drift aimlessly across time & space, enjoy the quiet while it lasts as life will soon...
Read More →
David Condolora and Brooke Condolora
Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure. Set in early 20th-century Scandinavia, the game's story branches through discovery in a series of encounters with creatures from folklore. You play as storyteller...
Read More →
is an autobiographical documentary game about T. The game follows her journey to uncover the truth about her parents’ work with Danish Intelligence during the Cold War. What was it that they did? And how could T not have known? Surreal elements, emotional connections, and history...
Read More →
Nyamakop
Semblance is a puzzle platformer where you mould the world. In a world made out of soft jelly material, and soft jelly people, one squashy being needs to get things done. Mould and deform the world in order to solve puzzles as you move throughout a strange world
Duncan Bell
A multiplayer taxi racing in South Africa.
Kobus vd walt and Ivo Sissolak
A first person shooter with a resolution of 64x64. *Also features a rocket launcher.
AlPixel Games
"Waiting in the Sky" is about reliving a moment of your childhood. Travelling in the backseat of a car, while you imagine you're using constellations to draw whatever you imagine. A small experience to relax and lose yourself for a few minutes.
Quicksand GamesLab
Antariksha Sanchar is a speculative science fiction adventure based on the vibrant cultures of South India. A point and click adventure, the game follows the life of a young Srinivasa Ramanujan, the renowned early twentieth century mathematician, and pushes the boundaries of cultural...
Read More →
Clockwork Acorn
Grow your line to reach the goal in Streamline. The hand-crafted puzzles contain a variety of unique interesting mechanics, and range from easy to fiendishly difficult. These should keep you busy for a while, but if you manage to finish them all, there is also an infinite mode with...
Read More →
Francois van Niekerk
Move your heart, make connections with others, and solve some fiendishly difficult puzzles. Pretty much an analogy for life, but with less admin. Will you pull at those heart strings?
Bahiyya Khan and Bracken Hall
Fuck the System is a quirky experimental game with unassuming heroes who save their own lives. The game explores different systems of oppression such as heteronormativity, patriarchy and depression. It's a coming of age story that deals with what it's like to be young and confused...
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Kevin Macfarlane
TimeStep is a top down, twin-stick shooter where time moves as the player moves. It was inspired by SUPERHOT.
Rasheed Abueideh, Wedad Irshad and Sarah Shawah
A game based on actual events tells a story of a little girl lives in a war zone
The Wall Games
z7am is an endless runner game for mobile devices that takes inspiration from the traffic jam of Casablanca city in a crazy and funny spirit. You drive car such as a red taxi or a big bus with the goal to reach the highest distance while avoiding other obstacles and city traps. Also...
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Have your cake and eat it too
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Technical Artist, Free Lives
Jonathan has been working in the game industry for over 5 years. He has been credited for shipped titles as an artist, programmer, technical artist and lead artist. He specializes in visual R&D and effects work, and currently works at Free Lives.
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How to Demateralize Completely - Using Unity PhysX
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Evan Greenwood is a game designer from Cape Town, South Africa. He last worked on "Broforce", a game that parodied hyper-masculinity. As the team at Free Lives (who developed Broforce) included no 3D animators, Evan stumbled into developing physics driven animations for the characters...
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Gaming African issues
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Managing Director, Formula D Interactive
Marco Rosa is a managing partner at Formula D interactive and has a passion for technology, education and gaming. In his position as Managing Director he gets the chance to work with teams of super talented experts in all of those fields to create solutions that impact people in a...
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#Gamedev as a Jump Start for Small (African) Communities
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Sithe has been an active member of the African game development community since 2013 beginning with organizing community events in her hometown Lusaka, Zambia. She is currently directing a project called prosearium.net with the goal of documenting 1000 African women and their contributions...
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Put a videogame where it is not supposed to be
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Brice Roy is a digital artist. Co-founder of the collective One Life Remains, he is specialized in the field of artistic videogames. Among other works, he is the author of the 250 years lasting game experience Générations, Gigantomachie, a versus fighting installation with giant...
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Main Exhibition
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Pixel Perfex
Earth Atlantis is an "Open-World" retro-style side-scrolling shooter with an original "Monster-Hunting" gameplay. The game is presented in a very unique and artistic “old sketching” visual style. We want to achieve the look of an “old explorer sketchbook” to express the...
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Evan Greenwood, Olivié Keck, Jason Sutherland and Filip Orekhov
Wander through a strange and musical park, listen to the sky, hear the falling leaves.
Aaron Oldenburg
Visit the cremation site of Pol Pot as a sleepwalker. Interpret the world your character is inhabiting by their gestures and brief glimpses inside their head. This game does not have an ending until you decide to leave. Game time is connected to the current real time in Cambodia...
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Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan
Closer is an interactive game exploring proximity, intimacy, and how we move together. Closer is played cooperatively, it is a game for two people.
Pol Clarissou
A short networked wandering experience about an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes left to live.
Team Lazerbeam
Wrestling With Emotions is a cute, quirky, wrestling-themed, dating simulator. Take on the role of a lonely young wrestler, create your persona and speed date your way through 8 hunks in your quest for the perfect match.
James Earl Cox III, Julie Buchanan, and Joe Cox
‘You Must be 18 or Older to Enter’ recreates the feeling and situation of being a prepubescent kid looking at porn for the first time. Through interactive fiction elements combined with ASCII styled art, ‘You Must be 18 or Older to Enter’ blurs several genres together to create...
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Wild Rose Games
Enzo is an approachable, curious and challenging toy that puts players in control of a beam of light as it reflects off the inner walls of an ominous disc. I think the draw of enzo is a combination of initial curiosity ("how does it work? what do I do?") with problem solving ("how...
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Andrea Hayes, Benjamin Crooks, Sean Goncalves
A Hands-On Experience is a rag-doll based game where players play as naughty museum-goers who have an urge to touch all the delicate and rare artworks/artifacts as much as possible to earn points to win the game.
Robbie Fraser and Pavel Savchuk
Sky Farm is a management game about constructing farms on a floating island; and then optimizing your design to produce the highest possible farming output!It was made in three days for Isolation Jam 2016 at the Kollafoss game residency in Iceland.
Andrea Hayes
Switch Forward is a web-based game that aims to explore the desensitization of violence in users of the internet. It gives control to the user and allows them to put someone through torture, but they can stop whenever they want too. But when/does the user stop?
Megan Hughes
A short Twine experience that puts players in the mind of someone experiences a Schizophrenic break from reality. The idea is to allow people to better understand these kinds of people - understand what they're going through, rather than be afraid of them. The more understanding we...
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iNK Stories
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 19...
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Akdogan Ali and Iruo Umusu
Throne of gods is an epic fighting game based on African mythology. created by a pair of Africans, self thought in Game development.
Free Lives
Defeat the Nazi scourge using only a gun, a pile of knives, and your understanding of physics.
Parallel Circles
Flat Heroes is a minimalistic, super intense action game featuring squares for 1 to 4 players. The design has been focused on creating a simple but delightful control that allows the players to move around the scenario in a super fluid way to beat all the challenging scenarios that...
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Manos Agianniotakis
A short interactive story based on an interview by Tim Grayburn describing his struggles with male clinical depression. The project is designed as a bite sized experience that forces the player in the shoes of a self victimised, trapped man.
Megan Hughes
Twine interactive story about life as a woman - the things that one might not realise weigh on the minds of women in normal day to day life.
Peardrum
Shoot to Kill is a 'pixel noir' adventure game exploring the relationship between film and video games with a 16-bit, 16mm take on early Hollywood cinema
Biome Collective
Killbox is an online game and interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare, its complexities and consequences. It is an experience which explores the use of technology to transform and extend political and military power, and the abstraction of killing...
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Kiro'o Games
Aurion is an epic action RPG set in a wonderful African Fantasy world with a unique, open and dynamic fighting gameplay.
Evan Greenwood and Jason Sutherland
Is a game ever finished? How would you know?
Ben Sironko, Denver Coulson and Danny Nanni
Lightning is a spazzy shooter for 2 - 4 players, featuring expressive button mashing and jittery, metallic audiovisual chaos. Players try to hit each other with lightning, carefully tapping and holding buttons to overcome chance and zig zag their way to victory. The game includes...
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Francois van Niekerk
Shift the tiles around and and match them up. Soko Match is a cross between Sokoban and a Match-3 game. You can match 3 or more tiles in a row or column with the same color or number. Can you get to 15 matches?
Turtle Cream
The only game which is connect both of TV and Wii U gamepad screen. Player can jump from TV to gamepad, and vice versa.
BNOO Games
Discussing in a funny way a problem in my country.. using localized graphics characters
Accidental Queens
A Normal Lost Phone is a game where you’ve just found someones phone. To find out what happened to the owner, you’ll be able to search through the lost phone and all of its applications.It can be a treasure hunt or a complete invasion of privacy... depending on your point of view!The...
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Jenna Bass
PHONICITY is a virtual-reality-audio-documentary, 10 conversations with young Africans, recorded with binaural sound in Johannesburg, May 2016. Listen while following the route from the South African Reserve Bank, across Nelson Mandela Bridge, up Jan Smuts Avenue to the steps of...
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NFB and Minority Media
I Love Potatoes is an adventure game for 7 to 77 year olds that deals with social innovation and sustainable economy issues in a slightly absurd, funny and quirky manner. Available for the Web, tablets and mobiles (IOS and Android), this playful journey will teach the steps of social...
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Pieter Visser, Dawid Strauss, Deon van Heerden
A 1-4 Player local co-op bralwer that uses the combat mechanics of modern fighting games. Players start with a base set of moves, and purchase more from the Shadow Merchants as the run progresses. Players are rewarded for keeping it stylish, by varying the moves they use, they increases...
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One Life Remains
"La discipline du rectangle" is a game about constraints for one player/performer. The player is seen by a camera and his image is fed back to the screen, surrounded by a rectangle. By moving and resizing this rectangle and forbidding to cross its boundaries, the game forces the player...
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Somi
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. You are given a cellphone of an unknown owner. You must look for evidence of terrorism by hacking into the cellphone owner's account, under governmental coercion. Then inspecting the cellphone usage...
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Team REVISIONS
REVISIONS is an autobiographical series of vignettes with a metafictional twist.
Delphine Fourneau, Music by Glass Body
Sacramento is a game about capturing fleeting memories before they fade. You’ll wander through an ephemeral and uncanny landscape, flashback of moments I gathered on sketchbooks over the years. Drift aimlessly across time & space, enjoy the quiet while it lasts as life will soon...
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David Condolora and Brooke Condolora
Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure. Set in early 20th-century Scandinavia, the game's story branches through discovery in a series of encounters with creatures from folklore. You play as storyteller...
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is an autobiographical documentary game about T. The game follows her journey to uncover the truth about her parents’ work with Danish Intelligence during the Cold War. What was it that they did? And how could T not have known? Surreal elements, emotional connections, and history...
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Nyamakop
Semblance is a puzzle platformer where you mould the world. In a world made out of soft jelly material, and soft jelly people, one squashy being needs to get things done. Mould and deform the world in order to solve puzzles as you move throughout a strange world
Duncan Bell
A multiplayer taxi racing in South Africa.
Kobus vd walt and Ivo Sissolak
A first person shooter with a resolution of 64x64. *Also features a rocket launcher.
AlPixel Games
"Waiting in the Sky" is about reliving a moment of your childhood. Travelling in the backseat of a car, while you imagine you're using constellations to draw whatever you imagine. A small experience to relax and lose yourself for a few minutes.
Quicksand GamesLab
Antariksha Sanchar is a speculative science fiction adventure based on the vibrant cultures of South India. A point and click adventure, the game follows the life of a young Srinivasa Ramanujan, the renowned early twentieth century mathematician, and pushes the boundaries of cultural...
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Clockwork Acorn
Grow your line to reach the goal in Streamline. The hand-crafted puzzles contain a variety of unique interesting mechanics, and range from easy to fiendishly difficult. These should keep you busy for a while, but if you manage to finish them all, there is also an infinite mode with...
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Francois van Niekerk
Move your heart, make connections with others, and solve some fiendishly difficult puzzles. Pretty much an analogy for life, but with less admin. Will you pull at those heart strings?
Bahiyya Khan and Bracken Hall
Fuck the System is a quirky experimental game with unassuming heroes who save their own lives. The game explores different systems of oppression such as heteronormativity, patriarchy and depression. It's a coming of age story that deals with what it's like to be young and confused...
Read More →
Kevin Macfarlane
TimeStep is a top down, twin-stick shooter where time moves as the player moves. It was inspired by SUPERHOT.
Rasheed Abueideh, Wedad Irshad and Sarah Shawah
A game based on actual events tells a story of a little girl lives in a war zone
The Wall Games
z7am is an endless runner game for mobile devices that takes inspiration from the traffic jam of Casablanca city in a crazy and funny spirit. You drive car such as a red taxi or a big bus with the goal to reach the highest distance while avoiding other obstacles and city traps. Also...
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Finish your fucking game
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Jakub is an independent exploiter of Attention Deficit Disorder. He's known for his ability to break any build of any game. Most recently he founded Test Company Please Ignore, a QA company with the mission to make testing more accessible for independent developers.
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Shipping Kills You because You're not Ready for it
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QCF Design, QCF Design (Pty) Ltd
Danny keeps talking about how little memory there is in the local games scene. People seem to hate that. Too bad we’re all doomed to keep re-inventing everything. Danny has been professionally developing games for 12 years, run a studio for 9 years and is tired of your bullshit...
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SCREWING AROUND W/ TOOLS
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Co-Founder & Technical Director, Nyamakop
Cukia "Sugar" Kimani, born in Kenya and raised all over Africa. Won the first A MAZE./ Johannesburg award for Boxer. Holds degrees in Computer Science, Maths, and Digital Art.
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Make the Art You Want to See In the World
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Veve is an international tran of mystery building and touring experimental installations and playful experiences. Anywhere tahina is in abundance, Veve will surely be found.
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Games as conversational spaces
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Pol Clarissou is a developer and artist who likes to experiment with games as a medium, and play with the tools and processes of digital arts. Even the Stars and Orchids to Dusk are the biggest amongst the many shortform gamelike experiences he's released, while also toying around...
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[Creative] Discovery through getting out of your comfort zone
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Marc has been developing games for well over 10 years. A founding member of the South African game development community Make Games SA, and one of the minds behind Desktop Dungeons, he's just returned from two months in Sweden, taking part in the Stugan game accelerator.
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Challenge the default
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Creative Director, Lohika
Henrike Lode is Founder and Creative Director of the Copenhagen-based game studio Lohika where she developed and self-published the award-winning puzzle adventure Machineers. Currently she works on her new game "To Be A Whale" and teaches at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts...
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