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UCT Gaming Seminar

UCT Electronic Gaming Society cordially invites you to our gaming seminar. Guest speaker Grant Hinds (ZoopyTV) will be presenting. So this is a not to be missed seminar if you want to know the latest in the gaming industry. So please come and share you...

Jack Parow se Gevaarlike Speletjie

Jack Parow got his own game on the interwebs, called Jack Parow se Gevaarlike Speletjie. Kill grannies and pregnant woman, throwing babies at you, to survive to the boss fight while listening to some Parow tunes. Unlock unreleased tracks and fucking coo...

Legends of Echo: the South African mobile RPG

Vodacom recently launched their massively multiplayer online game for mobile, called Legends of Echo. Here is an interview News24 Games had with its project leader, Nic Haralambous. Describe how Legends of Echo (LoE) works, as simply as you can. Legends ...

Game Banners

I've just added a new feature to GameDev.SA called Game Banners. This will allow you to embed banners with information about a game into pages like articles and forums. A banner is just a generated image, making it very easy to use wherever you can insert...

Call for volunteers to help open sourcing smallfry mobile code

Smallfry mobile has decided to open source the engine behing their J2ME games and is looking for volunteer developers to help prepare the code for general use. This will involve both cleaning up the existing code, and potentially adding to the existing c...

Featured Game

Dragooo release

Just a quick update to let you guys know that Dragooo has been released. You can read a review on it over at Touch Arcade, or visit iTunes App Store now to buy it for your iPhone and support our local developers. Welcome to Dragooo! A world of fantas...

Unity3D, Animated texture in GUI

In this guide I will show you how I created an animated icon to be used with Unity3D's GUI functions and using only one Texture with all the frames of the animation on it. For the game I am working on I needed a way to show a little “busy icon” which ...

PayPal in SA

After weeks of speculation following a leak on Twitter that FNB would be bringing PayPal to South Africa the banking group has today confirmed that its users will have access to the international online payment service as part of its internet banking pac...