Hello, thanks for dropping by.

I have been writing for PreMortem games for a couple of years now and it has been a great experience.

It has been an honour to interview some amazing people who are making waves in the African video games industry. I hope their stories inspire you as much as they inspire me. 

Here you go:

PreMortem Game Articles by Wendi Ndaki

 It took Caleb Mantey, CTO and Co-founder of Ghanaian-based Relu Interactives, 5 years of constant rejection for his company’s innovative gamified simulation to catch a break. In August 2023, his breakthrough arrived in the form of a 150,000 Ghanaian Cedi (GHC) award and an additional 50,000 GHC personal contribution by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.

Continue reading here: https://premortem.games/2023/09/22/ghanaian-vr-pioneer-caleb-manteys-road-to-a-presidential-award/

Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. This is his story. 

Olivier Madiba recalls playing games on warm sunny afternoons at his grandmother’s home with a spark in his eyes. These are some of his fondest childhood memories. It was during those moments, captivated by the epic boss fights and voice acting in Final Fantasy 7, that Madiba’s deep love for video games was ignited. When he turned 17 he started his game development journey, determined to create games that would evoke euphoria and give other people a glimpse of what he felt while playing his favourite games.

Continue reading here: https://premortem.games/2023/06/30/olivier-madibas-kiroo-games-is-building-a-pan-african-entertainment-ecosystem/

Meet the creative mind behind AKOIA & Company, Nyambura M. Waruingi and her spectacular innovation. She is not just developing a new game, she’s creating an entirely new experience that challenges everything we thought we knew about gaming. The Ground Screams To Whisper is not your typical game and neither is it just one thing, it’s a graphic novel, a puzzle game, a VR game and an album. It’s a constellation of projects that represents how Nyambura looks at gaming.

Continue reading it here: https://premortem.games/2023/03/31/the-ground-screams-to-whisper-nyambura-waruingis-constellation-of-projects/

 

 

The intersection of art and technology entails the practice of art within a technological space for instance animation, gaming or virtual reality. While the intersection of art and science involves looking at art as a research encounter and how science can benefit from art.

The following is the story of how her love for art and its intersection with technology and science started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To read this piece head on over to Games Industry Africa through this link.

 

In this video, I take you through an introduction to extended reality (XR), explain what it is and how it is growing on the African continent.

 

In this video you will get to learn about 5 gamification solutions from the Global South with examples from some African countries and Mexico.

 

 

This is a 4-minute animated video on gamification. You will learn about gamification and some popular gamification examples.

 

I recently started an animated YouTube channel where I convert my written content into video format. This piece was posted on my medium follow the link below if you prefer reading, and enjoy the videos if you are like me and love animations.

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I recently started a Vlog. It is an Animated YouTube Channel and is something that I have wanted to do since 2017.

You can see what I envisioned it as on my profile in the Creative Entrepreneurship class I attended that year.

It took longer than expected but the most important thing is it eventually happened. The following are the first two vlogs I have created so far and I'm super excited!