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Locally made platformer needs your Greenlight loving

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Xoi san

Do you like platformers? Are you a fan of locally made games? Do you want to help someone who is working hard to pursue his dreams? Then do I have a game for you!

Xoi San is a 2D platformer where players take on the role of a bushman. After witnessing rhino poaching, you must go on a journey to find and return a baby rhino to its mother. Along the way, you can call upon leopards, elephants and giant eagles to help, along with riding rhinos and trampling your enemies. It’s nice to see a distinctly African game going for Greenlight, as well as releasing for iOS, Android, Mac, PC and Linux. Yup, it’s gonna be everywhere – so where’s it coming from?

Lukas De Kock is a 31 year old living in Pretoria who, after working in the IT sector managing crypto solutions for big corporates, decided to pursue his dream. That’s right, he did what so many have wanted to do but aren’t sure they can – he saved up enough money to fund himself for 12 months, quit his job and lined up a few small titles to be released before his 12 month budget depletes. Talk about ballsy. Of course, before then he’d done some map creation and dabbling in 3D animation, but it was upon making this leap of faith that he was able to go all out and make games.

Check out this gameplay video to see what the game is all about, and then head on over to Greenlight to give it a thumbs up.

Whatcha think, it Lukas living your dream? Don’t you wish you could quit your job and make games, even if only for a year of your life?

Last Updated: May 27, 2014

22 Comments

  1. MakeItLegal

    May 27, 2014 at 11:08

    Balls deep in courage

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  2. Decembermaloy

    May 27, 2014 at 11:12

    Looks amazing.

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  3. Hammersteyn

    May 27, 2014 at 11:25

    First thing I thought of was damn Lion King

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  4. Admiral Chief in Space

    May 27, 2014 at 11:30

    Best of luck Lukas!

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  5. RinceofFuturePast

    May 27, 2014 at 11:35

    I’d love to quit my job and spend my days playing games and writing about them…

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    • Admiral Chief in Space

      May 27, 2014 at 11:37

      But who would read THAT?

      JK dude, compared to some writing I’ve seen, you should get a bloody Pulitzer

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      • RinceofFuturePast

        May 27, 2014 at 11:44

        Okay, I’ll stop 🙁

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  6. catherinekylie

    May 27, 2014 at 12:00

    The Famous Game of Facebook is : http://bit.ly/1k8fckQ

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  7. Kensei Seraph

    May 27, 2014 at 12:00

    Dam reality getting in the way of people’s dreams.

    I would love to quit my current job to develop games but I need a stable source of income to pay back my student loan.

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  8. Lukas De Kock

    May 27, 2014 at 13:32

    Thank you gents n ladies. Hopefully i can still buy food after a year :p

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  9. Lukas De Kock

    May 27, 2014 at 13:32

    Thank you gents n ladies. Hopefully i can still buy food after a year :p

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    • riaan

      May 27, 2014 at 14:38

      Well done Lukas, I will keep my eyes open for it!

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    • Rian Mostert

      May 28, 2014 at 09:43

      I truly envy you, I would love to pursue my dream with such passion ( also to develop video games ), And I hope to one day, but for now I’ll just be making games while working.

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    • Rian Mostert

      May 28, 2014 at 09:43

      I truly envy you, I would love to pursue my dream with such passion ( also to develop video games ), And I hope to one day, but for now I’ll just be making games while working.

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    • Rian Mostert

      May 28, 2014 at 09:43

      I truly envy you, I would love to pursue my dream with such passion ( also to develop video games ), And I hope to one day, but for now I’ll just be making games while working.

      Reply

  10. Rags

    May 27, 2014 at 14:49

    Can’t say I like it. Which are the other titles?

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  11. Karl Wortmann (?)

    May 27, 2014 at 15:30

    just needs some physics…(read better mechanics and movement), some effects and i might go for it ^^

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  12. brad coetzee

    May 27, 2014 at 17:00

    Have a friend who did the same thing and programmed indie games for XBL in the US. He was making a few hundred dollars a month, then his wife fell pregnant. Back to the day job………..the end.

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