Just received a press release from the Robot Wizard guys. They are a duo of South African gamedevs busy working on an oldish-school point-and-click adventure game called Jengo.
Check out the FIG page and videos for more details.
https://www.fig.co/campaigns/jengo
Here’s the press release:
We know that the Robot Wizard team have kept a low profile so far in 2018, but we are by no means resting. We have been hard at work, and in discussions with a view to obtaining a funding model in order to help pay for all the costs that go into making a videogame. Many may not be aware, but the team are developing the game part-time between jobs and family life. We are now, finally, at the stage of development where things start to get serious and we are proud to announce today our partnership with FIG.
If you are a fan of Jengo and want to support local game development, we are putting our wizard hats down to the ground to ask South Africa for help. For our campaign to get the full support of FIG we require a total investment of 400 backstage backers. Thereafter it will make its way out of backstage and receive the full support of FIG’s marketing muscle which will increase our chances of hitting our funding goal.
The money from the campaign will go towards paying for our voice talent, musicians, artists, programmers and more.