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It's very hard to make video games in Africa

Tyranitar24 | September 18, 2008 | Interview | Misc Gaming Tech/Hardware 
Wesley Kiriinya, a passionate video game designer who lives in Africa, has always wanted to make a very good and successful video game. Unfortunately, since Africa is not as technology-advanced as the U.S.A. or Europe, it's difficult.

Kiriinya notes that there is a market in Africa, just not even to being as big as some other countries. Since you need different things to make games, like a pretty good computer in his case, you have to buy it overseas. That can take forever and puts designers in a really bad position.
Piracy is a major problem here. I’m looking to get around it by developing online games [where] authentication happens on a server, so it’s very difficult to copy them. That model can work here, rather than selling discs. But whatever games I make have to work with the bandwidth that’s available.
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