"We don't have huge numbers, but we have huge profits"
With guests Olivier Madiba
Episode notes
Olivier Madiba is the founder of Kiro'o Games, the first video game studio in Cameroon and the first Africa-based studio to release a game on Xbox. He tells Claude why Africans have different ideas of success and what that means for video games; how low revenue doesn't necessarily translate to low profits; and what Africa can teach the modern world about the pricelessness of imperfection.
Transcript
1.45 African vision of success VS Western vision of success
3.28 The maturity and immaturity of the African gaming market
5.33 The difficulty “black” games face
8.11 The universal questions good games should ask
9.57 Why low revenue doesn’t mean low profits
12.54 What to do when no one wants to invest
15.10 The problems with Cameroonian education
17.39 How the US and YALI gave him a new perspective
21.28 Why industrialization won’t save Africa
24.33 The o...
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