Prosearium.net – Creating a garden of digital experiences by African women

About

Prosearium.net is an initiative to document 1000 African women of all backgrounds and their experiences creating and contributing to games. This is a step towards increasing the participation of African women in game development, and carving a space for ourselves in the continents digital history.

Here's our progress so far:

100 by 2021

1000 by 2026

Workshops hosted

Latest News

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#12 Kirsten Lee Naidoo

Kirsten Lee Naidoo is a South African game developer with an array of fun jam games under her belt and a passion for her local game development community. Get to…

#11 Adeline Tushabe

Adeline is a young game developer from Uganda who has worked on games with valuable user experiences. From working on a game that can be enjoyed by both sighted and…

#10 Estelle Makhoba

Estelle is a soulful South African game developer who makes games inspired by emotion and art. She spends her days as a network engineer and her nights sharpening her craft…

#9 Sunny Dube

Meet Sunny - a South African super geek who was inspired by both local and international games to study game design. Sunny has been bringing her own sunshine into the…

#8 Limpho Moeti

Limpho has played many roles in business development and production in the South African game development scene. Learn about some highlights of her career and her new work as part…

#7 Maria Situmbeko

Maria is a full-time software developer and FC Barcelona fan who got unexpectedly swept in Global Game Jam 2020 in Lusaka while she was hoping to use the venue space…

#6 Antsa Herisoa

This interview was originally conducted in French, Madagascar's official language. If you would the English translation, scroll further down. Voici Antsa! Antsa Herisoa est une jeune développeuse amusante qui participe…

#5 Cresentia Moyo

Cresentia is a 21-year-old lady from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe studying a Bachelor of Science degree in Informatics. While she works towards her degree, she enjoys exploring her interests in machine learning,…

#4 Véronique Elinoro RAJAONAH

Véronique is an illustrator and concept artist from Antananarivo, Madagascar. She is also a regular jammer and worked on Hafa during Global Game Jam 2020. What kind of games do…

Get involved

Here are ways that you can help us get to our goal of documenting 1000 African women creating and self-publishing their own games.

Let us profile you

Are you a woman in Africa that has made a game before or wants to make a game? It doesn’t matter what kind of game as long as we can see it exists! If you are interested, we would love to profile you and highlight your game here. Click here for a profile request or contact us below.

Support us on Patreon

Contribute to the growth of prosearium.net by supporting at patreon.com/proseaium. All patrons will have early access and exclusive content available to them every month from our team. You may also contribute more to request and have access to approved statistics that will be sent monthly.

Host a workshop

If you would like to have a group of friends or women you know learn to make games and self-publish them, contact us. We can work together to host a workshop in any location remotely, or a physical workshop if we have volunteer leads in your area.

Games

Here are some games that African women have worked on

Port Elizabeth, South Africa Africa at large

Contact

E-mail: hello@prosearium.net