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Enter Africa

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Enter Africa
Can Games Make a better Future?

We are convinced they can! And that is what the project Enter Africa is all about. It encourages young people in Sub-Saharan Africa to use game thinking as a tool to address everyday challenges.

 

A creative African network


Enter Africa is a creative African network represented in 15 African countries, initiated by 15 Goethe-Instituts in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Interdisciplinary teams including architects, urban planners, IT experts and artists in 15 African cities came together to develop 15 location-based games for smartphones and one analogue mega-game, thereby addressing challenges of urban transformation, borderlessness and Africa's past, present and future.

This process has generated a network of creative, innovative, young professionals across the African continent – the Enter Africa Community. Together, we use games and game thinking to realize our visions for Africa’s future.

Enter Africa involves many partners – game design and gamification experts and organizations from different African countries as well as Europe.

The location-based games and the megagame had been launched in August 2019 and had been showcased on different occasions across the African continent and the gaming fairs A Maze and Gamescom in Germany. All games are available on our homepage!
 

Enter Africa Brochure(PDF, 406 kB)


 

Location-Based Games Banner © Brook Getachew

Location-Based Games

Interdisciplinary teams including architects, urban planners, IT experts and artists in 15 African cities create location-based games – playable on mobile phones. The games anticipate our cities’ transformation processes and envision future scenarios: Which challenges for infrastructure, culture and the environment emerge? How can they be experienced and solved in a playful way?

Busara © Steven Tu

The Megagame

Out of these 15 visions, the teams identify joint topics for Sub-Saharan Africa - and create one analogue African game with a focus on borderlessness and the promotion of African cultures.
 

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News

Co-production Platform © Steven Tu

Call for applications: Enter Africa Video Game Co-Production Platform
 Deadline extended until 18 December 2019!

Launch of the Enter Africa Video Game Co-production platform in cooperation with SpielFabrique and the Goethe-Institut!

You are an enthusiastic game developer, a game designer, an entrepreneur or a studio from one of the 15 Enter Africa countries and want to further develop your game idea, produce it together with European partners and finally sell it? Then apply now with your game concept or prototype for the Enter Africa Co-production Platform!

Start: 30 October 2019
Deadline: 15 December 2019

Enter Africa at gamescom 2019 © Evelia Essenam Gadegbeku

ENTER AFRICA AT GAMESCOM 2019
GAMES HAVE THE POWER

The continent of creativity: Enter Africa, a network project by the Goethe-Institut in 15 African countries, presented the mega-game Busara for the first time in the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom 2019.
By Tino Hahn

gamescom 2019 © gamescom

20 - 24 August 2019
 Enter Africa at gamescom 2019

From 20-24 August 2019, Enter Africa will be part of this year's gamescom. 22 Enter Africa members from the 15 participating countries will travel to the world's largest games fair to present the project. 

Enter Africa Virtual Launch, 10 August 2019 © Goethe-Institut Addis Abeba

10 August 2019
 Virtual Launch of the 15 Location-Based Games!

We are happy to announce that the 15 location-based games of the Enter Africa project, all have been launched!

Enter Africa auf der A MAZE. Berlin © Evelia Gadegbeku Essenam

Enter Africa at A MAZE. Berlin
 Cooperation Makes Everything Possible

For the first time, Enter Africa had the possibility to present itself on the European gaming stage. From 10th to 13th April 2019, members of the individual Enter Africa teams showcased their 15 location-based games that will be finalized soon, the process as well as the reason behind Enter Africa.

Enter Africa @rpAccra © Goethe-Institut, Music: © Steerner & Kavela ft. Matthew Steeper - Horizon [Proximity Release]

Enter Africa @rpAccra

Our team from Ghana was part of the re:publica, which took place for the first time on the African continent this year. The team presented and tested their location-based game as well as the megagame with visitors and captured their experiences in this short film. 

Windhoek © Silas Mentos Nangolo

Windhoek, Namibia
 Start of the Second Game Labs

With a three day workshop in Namibia's capital Windhoek, we have started the second round of Game Labs. 

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