Local game studio are Independant Games Festival double finalists!

Desktop Dungeons, by Cape Town indie studio QCF Design, has been nominated as an IGF finalist in two categories: Excellence in Design and the Seamus McNally Grand Prize.

... QCF's Desktop Dungeons, mashes rogue-like and puzzle-game play in a way "so fun and elegantly designed" that jurists didn't hesitate to deign "pure genius" - sauce

This is pretty much what I dreamed about when I started this company. Heck, this is what I've been dreaming about since I first realised that I wanted to make games and stopped listening to the people that said that wasn't possible in SA.

We're currently making plans to get the San Francisco for the IGF, which is part of the larger GDC (Game Developers Conference) for the game industry's equivalent of the Oscars and Cannes all rolled into one. We can't really afford to go, but not going is squandering such an amazing opportunity to learn, network and market our game that it's almost criminal to consider.

Would anyone like to help us get there?

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Comment by Carla Allen on January 19, 2011 at 11:27: Danny, I think you should get someone to make an announcement and get people to tweet pledges. Or get a sponsorship sheet and do it the old-school way:) either way, you will need a little bit of hype from the Silicon Cape team to assist!

Comment by Danny Day on January 17, 2011 at 17:45: Totally hadn't thought of that, good idea. Ended up digging into the credit card and dropping just over R30k on tickets before prices went up. How would we work crowd-sourcing this?

Comment by William Kleynhans on January 17, 2011 at 9:42: Come to the siliconcape day 25th, bring how much tickets will cost you and then we try and crowdsource the amount , when is the due day for buying the tickets ?