Notable video games developed in South Africa include:īig tech companies like MWEB and Telkom host local server game servers which improve gaming by a lot in South Africa. Due to the difficulties of doing business as a game developer in the country over 80% of game development studios tend to relocate overseas once they become established. Since 2016 the Departments of Sports, Art and Culture and Department of Trade and Industry have been discussing which department will take the authority of handling the rights of game developers thereby creating uncertainty within the industry of whom to talk to in government. Other important challenges include inflexible currency exchange regulations and onerous registration requirements imposed by the South African Films and Publications Board. : 64 Industry challenges Ī lack of local investment and government support in addition to a shortage of game development skills have been identified as key challenges for the industry. Over 90% of South African game development studios report using the Unity game development engine.

Most studios are based in or around the cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg. As of 2022 there were 60 active game development studios in South Africa with the majority them being micro-enterprises that employ less than five people only six of these studios employ more than ten people. A new development studio BladezGaming, established 2022, has their first game coming out in December 2022. The country has produced to a small number of domestic game development studios such as Free Lives, Celestial Games, 24 Bit Games and Luma Arcade as of 2022 the only still active developers of the four were Free Lives and 24 Bit Games. Broforce, developed by Free Lives, is one of the most successful games developed in South Africa.

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