Will this game be The GENSHIN IMPACT of Africans?
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You might have played video games from The west, Japan and even from China, but have you ever tried a video games from Africa?
Recently, we just discovered an interesting mobile game, the title is pretty simple——Adventurers: mobile. Basically, the game is like an African version of Uncharted, Nathan Drake is replaced by a colored hero with dread locks.
The Gameplay of Adventurers: mobile is also similar to the PlayStation Blockbusters: You need to solve some dizzy puzzles in some ancient ruins, shooting some mercenaries who keep chasing behinds you, and yeah, they even have the iconic car-chasing level!
Not only the gameplay, the plots of Adventurers: mobile is also reminds you the experience in Uncharted and the Indiana Jones,TL:DR, Treasure the protagonist chasing is the lost legacy from one of the greatest monarch in the African history. However, the ultimate goals of the protagonist is little bit different——instead of stealing the treasure, every risks he takes is for taking the artifacts back to its own home.
TBH, the overall quality of game cannot compete to the console triple-A titles, not only the graphics is a little bit outdated, cinematic spectacles are absent. Instead variable gameplay sessions, the most things you need to do in Adventurers: mobile is taking up the gun and shoot every target you see……It is not always a bad thing, right?
You might want to try Adventurers: mobile right now, but let me introduce the studio behind the game, Raven Illusion Studio, the story of the studio is even more legendary compared to the game itself.
Raven Illusion Studio is based in Nigeria, a large country located in West Africa, although it is regarded as the Largest economy in Africa, it is also the poorest country within the continent. the extreme imbalance in wealth equality and corruption put most Nigerian struggling to sruvive.It is hard to bring video games and this country together in my mind.
Until Raven Illusion Studio shows up.
Precious Rhogho, the founders of the studio, told us there are 5 in the studio, most of them are Nigerian and everyone of them are working from home.’
By far,Adventurers: mobile is the most advanced video game ever developed by Nigerian. ’Rhogho is pretty convinced that his game has already represented the highest quality of Nigerian Video Game.
If you see the comments of the trailers of Adventurers: mobile, you can see many positive comments and review by proud African people and Nigerian.
Rhogho also shared us some details about the Nigerian video game market: Most of people played video games through smartphone, they play games like <Call Of Duty Mobile> and <PUBG mobile>. Other than that, people play video games through older models of PlayStation, including PS3 and PS4. ’The local retail price of a PS5 is 600 thousand Naira, AKA 400 dollars, and I can use that money to rent a apartment for 2 months in the center of Lagos, our capital city.’Rhogho told me.
But lucky for him, Rhogho received an OG PlayStation at his 7-year-old birthday.’Only 1 of 5000 kids in the community can have a console for gaming.’ His GOAT game is The last of us and , and Adventurers: mobile DID inspired from Uncharted, the naughty dog classic series.
After the happy and wealthy Childhood of Rhogho, the bad luck has knocked on his door when he step into the college: his father is seriously sicked and bring down the economic situation of the family, he has to drop out the college and find a job for survive, like every young people in Nigeria.
At that time, the ion and the love to the games drove him into the video game industry, he learned the Unity engine all by himself through Youtube, and become a Level Designer in global video game industry, before Adventurers: mobile , the most well-known franchise he has worked on called: Escape from Tarkov.
His talent of making video games changed the life of his family——according to Rhogho himself, the income he make in a week basically equals to the salaries of a local bank teller in 2 months. And finally, his dream came true, a video game studio by his own, and also the very first Nigerian game studio is found up.
Because there is nobody else are developing some actual and decent video games, so by Rhogho's word, Adventurers: mobile could be seen as the Nigerian Genshin Impact.
What is the next step of the Raven Illusion Studio?
Rhogho told us, he has a great plan about the future: he want to develop a DLC chapter for Adventurers: mobile. the cruel slavery history will be unmasked in this all new chapter, Players need to save the African slaves that are being traded to elsewhere in the world.
Other than that, Raven Illusion Studio has an alternative project, it is named beyond ragnarok, the game has been selected by ID@XBOX, an indie games project powered by Microsoft.
Rhogho believed that, he can developed an triple-A title in the future with more and investment,’it takes more than one year for me to develop Adventurers: mobile, but with enough budgets, I can make it within 6 months.’ He is pretty confident that, he can make his game better than Genshin Impact in 2 years if he have enough budgets.
‘In order to make my own game, I have to work 15 hours a day, I have not played any video games in a long time,’Rhogho told me, ‘If I have any spare time to play some new games, the first choice to me will be the Last Of us Part II, I can’t wait to see the next adventure of Joel and Ellie.’
Posted on 06/04/2024944 Views
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Webb7737906/09/2024
I tried this game but it’s pay to play so I deleted it.
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