Make Games
South Africa
Makegamessa.com
[email protected]
26 Wesley Street
Claremont
Cape Town
7708
South Africa
NPO Registration Number: 123-875 NPO
Make Games South Africa Industry Survey Results (Summary)
Make Games South Africa conducted a survey of game development firms across the country in
South Africa.
Most of the respondents where Make Games members. This is the first of its kind and so no
comparison can be done. It is intended that this survey act as baseline for further study. The survey
is based off organizations 2013 financial year.
Key Findings:
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There are 32 active game development companies in South Africa
Overall the games industry has directly created 240 jobs
The game development industry is valued at about R30 million
22.9% of the industry is female (55 in total)
Only 5% of the industry is “Black” (13 in total)
Only 31% of companies (10 in total) generate their own games for sale to consumers. The
remaining companies rely mostly on business-to-business and similar contract work.
28% (9 in total) of the companies have been trading for longer than 3 years.
46% (15 in total) of the companies incorporated in 2013 and 2014.
Limitations and other findings
Most of the respondents would not give state their profit values for the 2013 year. So our data is
limited. We do know that only 37% of respondents (12 in total) made a profit in the 2013 year.
We expect the next year’s results to be considerably higher, especially in terms of revenue and profit
since we will then be able to take into account Broforce, Desktop Dungeons and Viscera Clean Up
Detail which will have all been fully released. These games are already international successes are
likely to be South Africa’s most successful titles to date.