Kawaida's Journey is an ambitious mobile game project, in which you experience the spirit of east african environment and culture. It is a classic 2D jump and run game like Mario. But it is more than that - it's an intercultural project! In building the game we work hand in hand with tanzanian artists and non-governmental organizations. So let us overcome cultural boundaries via the thing we all share passion for - games.

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Overview of the project "Kawaida’s Journey". Some insights on the development progress. I try to keep you updated.

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Hey everybody,

We had a lot of work in the last months but we managed to make quite good progress.

When I first created this project entry in january 2016 we were working on a demo level for a presentation to convince some people to give us some money. We prepared a prototype for demonstration including:

  • a menu

  • a map to select a level

  • one environment jungle

  • one playable level, demonstrating the reforestation/evolution topic/mechanic

  • the main game mechanics: walking, jumping, planting seedlings, climbing, throwing cocosnuts, an enemy tiger mosquito, collecting stuff suns, cocos, totem, banana, a quest, win/lose/restart/back to map

  • basic tutorial and story elements, incl. Neutral characters for interaction

  • running on desktop and manually installed from apk on android devices

Our first presentation was not successful but we were able to rework some major issues and do another presentation two months later that was successful. We then started to prepare a new version for the Gamescom. We have been honored to present our game at the Indie Booth Arena. They give over 50 independent game projects the possibility to present their game next to the real big ones. Great thanks for that.

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