The Economic Impact of Successful Game Development on African Creative Industries
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TLDR
- Built as a 3D action-adventure game for PC and console, HIRU follows the journey of a young Maasai prince whose family is devastated by poachers, forcing him into a quest to rescue his kidnapped sister while protecting.
- Successful game industries are built upon intellectual property.
- A thriving African game industry therefore supports an entire creative economy.
- For investors, HIRU also challenges outdated assumptions about African creative industries.
- Supporting African studios today may prove similar to investing in Scandinavian mobile developers or Polish RPG studios before they became internationally recognised.