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video game is what is important to you inspite of the challenges facing nigeria?



ogun kill the mod wey carry this thing come fp

derrydinny:
video game is what is important to you inspite of the challenges facing nigeria?



ogun kill the mod wey carry this thing come fp

Amadioha might as well strike you for being so callous.

And this made fp

Just like him

AAA games are expensive and cost millions of dollars to make.

Even in America and Europe, most studios are indie studios.


Tell us the AAA games that Brazilians, Indians and other countries more developed than us have produced.

cao:
Amadioha might as well strike you for being so callous.

Nice try. Your topic is actually useless to be honest. If you know what AAA games are you wouldn't use that in this. Just wasted few minutes of my life reading this.

# Did you know that candy crush is a billion dollar game

# what have they done??

# 1. Entertainment
# 2. Made lota money
# 3. Employment

rentAcock:
I'm more amazed that you took your time to write this rubbish. Video games are a form of entertainment and nothing more. So many grown men waste valuable time playing silly video games that doesn't enrich them in anyway. Why should Nigeria even have a video game title Aren't there more Nigerian youths already languishing away by gambling? Video games leads to lack of productivity and that's the last thing a society needs. Abeg there are already too many forms of media fighting for our eyeballs, we don't need more of them.

You're a big fool for saying that. This is why nigeria will never grow, because of dull youths like you. OP made a very good point.
Video gaming is a very big business around the world. Do you know what "Esport" is?. It's basically playing games for the entertainment of other and making money doing it. A lot of American kids are quitting School to became "Professional Video Game Players". Do you know what "Twitch" is? It's a website where people pay you just to watch you play games. GOOGLE the gamer "Ninja", he makes almost 300 Million Naira a Month (yes a month) from people watching him play games.
Esport a Video Game playing Competition is going to be in the Olympic in 2020 (GOOGLE IT) and people are going to win medals from playing games and you're saying shit like Donkey. We Nigerians really need to grow up.

cao:
Amadioha might as well strike you for being so callous.

are you not the fool that said video game industry is a multi billion dollar industry? we are trying to stop corruption in our country and two unfortunate and exchanging favours in dark, blaming government for the problems in our country but still offering bribe to move useless posts to the fp



once again, ogun kill the mod wey move this shiit come fp and you cao also, ewu sambisa

I've always looked and thought of you as an i-di-ot-ic sadistic myopic gnome specied cretin, even up till now. Especially after seen you condemn and bash other people. One thing is for sure though.., you are right a thousand percent on this post and I wish you had put it up in d graphics section so dat in can be pondered upon. Most of d points here actually interprets what we do over there but for a lot of reasons.
I think I'm getting to understand you a bit more as I begin to see things more objectively. Kudos and nice write up.

derrydinny:
are you not the fool that said video game industry is a multi billion dollar industry? we are trying to stop corruption in our country and two unfortunate and exchanging favours in dark, blaming government for the problems in our country but still offering bribe to move useless posts to the fp



once again, ogun kill the mod wey move this shiit come fp and you cao also, ewu sambisa

Aw, look at you preening. Amadioha is going to strike the stupidity out of you. You should be grateful, oh callous one.

op u forgot to put mindset issues, the people bashing the thread are just commenting for commenting sake, they dont know a thing about what this thread is about.

cao:
Aw, look at you preening. Amadioha is going to strike the stupidity out of you. You should be grateful, oh callous one.

calling me a callous one is a compliment kid, tell your overlord to stop abusing the government despite giving bribes to move his post to fp



ogun, you dey hear me so? go the mod and this pikin house one by one and make sure sey you no come back until you kill them

LucemFerre:
Let me start off by pointing fingers

1. OUR GOVERNMENT IS FILLED WITH OUTDATED SELFISH AND WICKED BASTARDS

Sorry, if you and/or your parents are among them. The only time our government would make a decision that would benefit the country is if it benefits them more. What they regard sport is going to the house of assembly and fight each other like fools. I have never heard about anybody raising any issue about how young aspiring youths who want to develop their career on gaming side of technology should be encouraged by setting up a committee if necessary, to organize free conferences anchored by foreign gaming industry personnels to enlighten the youths. I mean would you put a price on creating a system that could boost your economy drastically in few years?
There was a time I read that some Nigerian youths would be sponsored to Canada for game blah blah... I don't know whether that ever happened but, even if it did I'm very sure the people who went were heavily connected. So, you see, the rich would get richer and the poor will get poorer.
One of the reasons why we get violent and do other harmful things to ourselves is because there are not much productive things to distract us from idleness.

2. OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS FAULTY

Nigerian educational system is designed (sometimes I feel it's intentional) to make you dependent on a job. It doesn't prepare you to be independent. That is a problem. When I was in school I wanted to become a programmer so I decided to take computer courses very seriously. By the end of the year all I knew was definition and types of computer languages and their history. Then I realized anybody who depends on school to teach them the requisite skills needed to stand out in the world is in for a long surprising ride that would end up in a terrible accident when it must have become to late before one realizes. So I turned to YouTube and other online materials, long story short. I quitted before leaving school (I'll get to that in a moment).
When you hear about courses like computer science, computer engineering, cyber crime etc... You'd think we have developed enough to study those things, eh? They are all theories taught me lecturers who know only theories too. When I was in 300 level, still on the process of studying Java, I met a 500 level student to put me through some stuffs and guess what, he doesn't even know the fvck I was saying and he was a 2-1 student.
Lesson, when you go to the university be average in academics and build your entrepreneurship abilities. Trust me, it's worth it. The other way round, not worth it at all.
ASUU, NASSU, KASSU, SSANU, whatever SU that is existing has never existed for the interest of the student but, for the interest of their pockets. That should hardly be a surprise. They've been going on strikes for as long as I can remember and its all because something has not been paid, not because the system needs work. Smfh... Pathetic. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about that. Most of us get corrupt before we get up there (I'm coming to that)

Now on our own part
3. NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE LAZY

Yes, If that was what Buhari meant in his speech then he isn't completely wrong. Some of us are fvcking lazy. For sitting in front of the TV watching other people live their lives is unbelievably sad. Is that how lonely people have become? It's insulting and demeaning to be entertained by BB Naija, BB Africa, keeping up with the Kardashians, etc. Sorry to put it crudely.
You know that phrase "Jack of all trade master of none?" It's a bloody lie. You can be whatever you want to be (above average in all) if you are determined. I'm a living witness and in know people who are like that too. Don't let old people get into your head by focusing on one thing doing it and relaxing to watch other people make money.
We prefer to look for cheat codes rather than develop them, we prefer to look for hacks rather than create them we prefer to look for game walkthroughs rather than brainstorm, we prefer to become anime fans and cartoon fans and comics fans and animation fans rather than create ours. Even in RL football we don't develop ours but, watch Barca and RM, Man U etc. Government won't develop, we won't encourage. See (shrug)

Before you eat me raw, I know it's sometimes not our fault that we seem lazy it's all because of the (1) point. So, what then should we do, sit? No, if we can't save the country because there is no hope for a reasonable administration let's change the country for the better in our own little way that we can.

5. WE ARE SELFISH

Everybody wants to do it alone. So that when it's gets out it would be only my name up there. That's a problem. You meet one or two people, bring up ideas and ask to work as a team and they either pretend at first and break up later or refuse because there would be too much completion in the crew. Nobody can make it alone. Non, no not one. I believe there are good character designers, good potential game developers, and other aspects of gaming but, most of them don't wanna be part of a crew. For fear of being outshined or robbed of ideas. Between me and you, I don't care of my sh!t was stolen. Deep within me I know I was the one who did it and I can do it again. Big deal. Let's learn to work together. United we stand, divided we fall. Remember that. If you develop games or do designs and animations gather people with like minds and actually DO something not discuss about doing something... Cumberbach said "... JUST DO..."
Give out tutorials for free. Even if not the whole thing at least, basic stuffs. I saw a post on Instagram about an amateur who posted his animation and is asking people to pay money to learn. I'm like wth. Like dude you're still on the basics. We are so eager to make money and ignoring the love we should have for our brothers to help us grow as people and as a country. No Nigerian tutor does it for free. Na so we like money reach? Do it for free as time goes on and you have helped many people who couldn't help themselves, you then put a prize on it. If you're dedicated to doing your craft well, you won't need to sell tutorials to survive.

6. LACK OF BASIC AMENITIES TO ENHANCE EFFECTIVE PRODUCTION

Electricity, and development in general. This still depends on whether or not our government receive sense, so I'm not gonna say more on this

7. THIRD PARTIES

When I say third parties I mean telecommunications companies, online shopping sites etc.
There is a body (I had to Google it to even remember) NCC. Can somebody tell me what the hell they do apart from placing fines on MTN? It's unfortunate that we have to stay awake overnight to use cheaper data ffs. I set alarm every 12 o, clock so I could use MTN's 500mb for 25 naira abeg. Data is more expensive than food. 2000 naira for a crappy, bandwidth-capped-poor-receptioned 2.5gig and we are all smiling as if everything is fine.
Data is hyper expensive in naija, that's not a story anymore and that I'd depriving youths from getting easier access to online gameplay, watching tutorials ton improve themselves in gaming development in general. So, that's a problem. Forget the porn watchers make dem enjoy let people who wanna help their lives through that do it with lesser effort than how it is, right now.

Our online stores again... I don't think there's a body governing that even if there was they'll probably bribe their way out. They allow people to sell whatever nonsense they feel like online. Fake games, fake computers, fake consoles, fake gpus, fake everything and the platforms don't care about the integrity of the country and so they just let it slide. And the people in the government are too outdated to know what's going on.

IN CONCLUSION
As a fellow brother who don't know what the hell to do about all these setbacks. Let's bring our heads together and create something independent of this messed up system. Use your time productively.
Do what I do. When there is light use it do create something. When there's no light, I sketch, when I get tired I do voice training, when I get tired I read, when I get tired I think, when I get tired I walk around a little to clear my head, when I come back I play game, only come to social medias once every hour to see notifications, respond etc. And then log off. I'm planning to extend it to 2 hours/notification check. Never remain idle.
Spend less time on your devices depressing yourselves with other people's wealth, responding to insults, looking at stories that don't concern you but, just for gossip sakes. Use your devices to do something productive and game related researches

Please, I beg, biko, jor, Don Allah, let's create a very good game in 5 years time. NOT AN ANDROID GAME O. Don't worry about the money. Money was instituted to separate the rich from the poor. The only thing we'd need money for would be to pay an artist or a programmer or a modeller, etc... Since we have all available let's just do it.

PS: ignore any error and just focus on the message. It's hard typing on a phone for so long.

Lucem Ferre
Signing off

I am interested in working with someone like you.

derrydinny:
calling me a callous one is a compliment kid, tell your overlord to stop abusing the government despite giving bribes to move his post to fp



ogun, you dey hear me so? go the mod and this pikin house one by one and make sure sey you no come back until you kill them

It's funny how you still haven't noticed I'm the mod, oh callous one. Just because your mouth is directly connected to your a$$ doesn't mean we have to suffer through your nonsense. Let Amadioha strike the stupidity out of you.

cao:
You again? You still haven't contributed anything of value in this section. So, hush.

me again what? is there anything wrong in my post?

I just said the obvious truth and I don't see anything wrong with it or were you expecting me to hail this post that makes no sense? if a post is good is good, if a post is bad is bad. that's it no preferential treatment.


And you asking me to contribute, in case you don't know, me commenting in this section is just same as contributing so.....

derrydinny:
calling me a callous one is a compliment kid, tell your overlord to stop abusing the government despite giving bribes to move his post to fp



ogun, you dey hear me so? go the mod and this pikin house one by one and make sure sey you no come back until you kill them

oga na mod you dey talk to oooo

You get mind ooo

You go chop everlasting ban ooo

LucemFerre:
Let me start off by pointing fingers

1. OUR GOVERNMENT IS FILLED WITH OUTDATED SELFISH AND WICKED BASTARDS

Sorry, if you and/or your parents are among them. The only time our government would make a decision that would benefit the country is if it benefits them more. What they regard sport is going to the house of assembly and fight each other like fools. I have never heard about anybody raising any issue about how young aspiring youths who want to develop their career on gaming side of technology should be encouraged by setting up a committee if necessary, to organize free conferences anchored by foreign gaming industry personnels to enlighten the youths. I mean would you put a price on creating a system that could boost your economy drastically in few years?
There was a time I read that some Nigerian youths would be sponsored to Canada for game blah blah... I don't know whether that ever happened but, even if it did I'm very sure the people who went were heavily connected. So, you see, the rich would get richer and the poor will get poorer.
One of the reasons why we get violent and do other harmful things to ourselves is because there are not much productive things to distract us from idleness.

2. OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS FAULTY

Nigerian educational system is designed (sometimes I feel it's intentional) to make you dependent on a job. It doesn't prepare you to be independent. That is a problem. When I was in school I wanted to become a programmer so I decided to take computer courses very seriously. By the end of the year all I knew was definition and types of computer languages and their history. Then I realized anybody who depends on school to teach them the requisite skills needed to stand out in the world is in for a long surprising ride that would end up in a terrible accident when it must have become to late before one realizes. So I turned to YouTube and other online materials, long story short. I quitted before leaving school (I'll get to that in a moment).
When you hear about courses like computer science, computer engineering, cyber crime etc... You'd think we have developed enough to study those things, eh? They are all theories taught me lecturers who know only theories too. When I was in 300 level, still on the process of studying Java, I met a 500 level student to put me through some stuffs and guess what, he doesn't even know the fvck I was saying and he was a 2-1 student.
Lesson, when you go to the university be average in academics and build your entrepreneurship abilities. Trust me, it's worth it. The other way round, not worth it at all.
ASUU, NASSU, KASSU, SSANU, whatever SU that is existing has never existed for the interest of the student but, for the interest of their pockets. That should hardly be a surprise. They've been going on strikes for as long as I can remember and its all because something has not been paid, not because the system needs work. Smfh... Pathetic. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about that. Most of us get corrupt before we get up there (I'm coming to that)

Now on our own part
3. NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE LAZY

Yes, If that was what Buhari meant in his speech then he isn't completely wrong. Some of us are fvcking lazy. For sitting in front of the TV watching other people live their lives is unbelievably sad. Is that how lonely people have become? It's insulting and demeaning to be entertained by BB Naija, BB Africa, keeping up with the Kardashians, etc. Sorry to put it crudely.
You know that phrase "Jack of all trade master of none?" It's a bloody lie. You can be whatever you want to be (above average in all) if you are determined. I'm a living witness and in know people who are like that too. Don't let old people get into your head by focusing on one thing doing it and relaxing to watch other people make money.
We prefer to look for cheat codes rather than develop them, we prefer to look for hacks rather than create them we prefer to look for game walkthroughs rather than brainstorm, we prefer to become anime fans and cartoon fans and comics fans and animation fans rather than create ours. Even in RL football we don't develop ours but, watch Barca and RM, Man U etc. Government won't develop, we won't encourage. See (shrug)

Before you eat me raw, I know it's sometimes not our fault that we seem lazy it's all because of the (1) point. So, what then should we do, sit? No, if we can't save the country because there is no hope for a reasonable administration let's change the country for the better in our own little way that we can.

5. WE ARE SELFISH

Everybody wants to do it alone. So that when it's gets out it would be only my name up there. That's a problem. You meet one or two people, bring up ideas and ask to work as a team and they either pretend at first and break up later or refuse because there would be too much completion in the crew. Nobody can make it alone. Non, no not one. I believe there are good character designers, good potential game developers, and other aspects of gaming but, most of them don't wanna be part of a crew. For fear of being outshined or robbed of ideas. Between me and you, I don't care of my sh!t was stolen. Deep within me I know I was the one who did it and I can do it again. Big deal. Let's learn to work together. United we stand, divided we fall. Remember that. If you develop games or do designs and animations gather people with like minds and actually DO something not discuss about doing something... Cumberbach said "... JUST DO..."
Give out tutorials for free. Even if not the whole thing at least, basic stuffs. I saw a post on Instagram about an amateur who posted his animation and is asking people to pay money to learn. I'm like wth. Like dude you're still on the basics. We are so eager to make money and ignoring the love we should have for our brothers to help us grow as people and as a country. No Nigerian tutor does it for free. Na so we like money reach? Do it for free as time goes on and you have helped many people who couldn't help themselves, you then put a prize on it. If you're dedicated to doing your craft well, you won't need to sell tutorials to survive.

6. LACK OF BASIC AMENITIES TO ENHANCE EFFECTIVE PRODUCTION

Electricity, and development in general. This still depends on whether or not our government receive sense, so I'm not gonna say more on this

7. THIRD PARTIES

When I say third parties I mean telecommunications companies, online shopping sites etc.
There is a body (I had to Google it to even remember) NCC. Can somebody tell me what the hell they do apart from placing fines on MTN? It's unfortunate that we have to stay awake overnight to use cheaper data ffs. I set alarm every 12 o, clock so I could use MTN's 500mb for 25 naira abeg. Data is more expensive than food. 2000 naira for a crappy, bandwidth-capped-poor-receptioned 2.5gig and we are all smiling as if everything is fine.
Data is hyper expensive in naija, that's not a story anymore and that I'd depriving youths from getting easier access to online gameplay, watching tutorials ton improve themselves in gaming development in general. So, that's a problem. Forget the porn watchers make dem enjoy let people who wanna help their lives through that do it with lesser effort than how it is, right now.

Our online stores again... I don't think there's a body governing that even if there was they'll probably bribe their way out. They allow people to sell whatever nonsense they feel like online. Fake games, fake computers, fake consoles, fake gpus, fake everything and the platforms don't care about the integrity of the country and so they just let it slide. And the people in the government are too outdated to know what's going on.

IN CONCLUSION
As a fellow brother who don't know what the hell to do about all these setbacks. Let's bring our heads together and create something independent of this messed up system. Use your time productively.
Do what I do. When there is light use it do create something. When there's no light, I sketch, when I get tired I do voice training, when I get tired I read, when I get tired I think, when I get tired I walk around a little to clear my head, when I come back I play game, only come to social medias once every hour to see notifications, respond etc. And then log off. I'm planning to extend it to 2 hours/notification check. Never remain idle.
Spend less time on your devices depressing yourselves with other people's wealth, responding to insults, looking at stories that don't concern you but, just for gossip sakes. Use your devices to do something productive and game related researches

Please, I beg, biko, jor, Don Allah, let's create a very good game in 5 years time. NOT AN ANDROID GAME O. Don't worry about the money. Money was instituted to separate the rich from the poor. The only thing we'd need money for would be to pay an artist or a programmer or a modeller, etc... Since we have all available let's just do it.

PS: ignore any error and just focus on the message. It's hard typing on a phone for so long.

Lucem Ferre
Signing off

All your points are spot on bro. Unfortunately your fellow country men only care about insulting politicians and hopeful of being an oppressor someday (sadly that is the Nigerian dream). Evidently you can tell how uneducated the nation is from all the replies you've gotten.
However if you still have hope in the country, and you want to give change a try, research on innovative education with tech (Edutech) think VR. Reach out if you ever need a research partner should you decide on that path.

MobileGees:
me again what? is there anything wrong in my post?

I just said the obvious truth and I don't see anything wrong with it or were you expecting me to hail this post that makes no sense? if a post is good is good, if a post is bad is bad. that's it no preferential treatment.


And you asking me to contribute, in case you don't know, me commenting in this section is just same as contributing so.....

I don hear, I saw this as a post that would get people talking. I actually understand where the OP is coming from. Especially, when you see other countries actually sponsoring their game devs, especially the indie ones. But, our government, much like some commenters on here, don't even see the full potential, they're so caught up on oil. The same dunces that will complain about gaming being only for kids will go and gamble away their money.

HajimeSaito:
At this stage in our development we need to focus Technology on more important innovations in health, education and agriculture. Trying to create a triple A rated video game is the least of our problems now.

So game development is neither technology nor education? Okay
On to the next

MobileGees:
oga na mod you dey talk to oooo

You get mind ooo

You go chop everlasting ban ooo

He came to flex, but he didn't know whose house he was flexing in. But, y'all know I don't just ban anyhow, unless you deserve it or actually ask for it. Plus, I could have technically banned him on the spot with his ogun comment. Instead, countered with amadioha, but the guy can talk nonsense. How can he not know that the gaming industry is big money industry?

LucemFerre:
So game development is neither technology nor education? Okay
On to the next

Don't forget the one that was talking about engineering like the consoles, PCs and software were not made by engineering... Ignorance will not kill some people.

MobileGees:
oga na mod you dey talk to oooo

You get mind ooo

You go chop everlasting ban ooo

lol, I no even sabi am, seun don carry goat do mod o

rentAcock:
I'm more amazed that you took your time to write this rubbish. Video games are a form of entertainment and nothing more. So many grown men waste valuable time playing silly video games that doesn't enrich them in anyway. Why should Nigeria even have a video game title Aren't there more Nigerian youths already languishing away by gambling? Video games leads to lack of productivity and that's the last thing a society needs. Abeg there are already too many forms of media fighting for our eyeballs, we don't need more of them.

Wow. You are so ignorant. What corner of the planet do you live in?

rentAcock:
I'm more amazed that you took your time to write this rubbish. Video games are a form of entertainment and nothing more. So many grown men waste valuable time playing silly video games that doesn't enrich them in anyway. Why should Nigeria even have a video game title Aren't there more Nigerian youths already languishing away by gambling? Video games leads to lack of productivity and that's the last thing a society needs. Abeg there are already too many forms of media fighting for our eyeballs, we don't need more of them.

See story. If you don't like games rest. We wan play games.

cao:
It's funny how you still haven't noticed I'm the mod, oh callous one. Just because your mouth is directly connected to your a$$ doesn't mean we have to suffer through your nonsense. Let Amadioha strike the stupidity out of you.

so you think you are now successful because you are a nairaland mod?



to all shouting, nigerians are not ready for video gamers, how many nigerians subscribe to gaming websites?, before telling the govt to copy other countries, research well on the citizens.. how many nigerians are well fed to the extent of subscribing for video games? we can't copy everything oyinbo people do abeg

cyrielo:
All your points are spot on bro. Unfortunately your fellow country men only care about insulting politicians and hopeful of being an oppressor someday (sadly that is the Nigerian dream). Evidently you can tell how uneducated the nation is from all the replies you've gotten.
However if you still have hope in the country, and you want to give change a try, research on innovative education with tech (Edutech) think VR. Reach out if you ever need a research partner should you decide on that path.

Thank you brother. We'll keep doing the best we can to help the country. It's our home and we ain't planning to go nowhere

cao:
He came to flex, but he didn't know whose house he was flexing in. But, y'all know I don't just ban anyhow, unless you deserve it or actually ask for it. Plus, I could have technically banned him on the spot with his ogun comment. Instead, countered with amadioha, but the guy can talk nonsense. How can he not know that the gaming industry is big money industry?

I agree, the gaming is a big industry indeed but currently in Nigeria, Gaming is not really a profitable thing to venture in I've got alot of point to back this up but I don't have strength to type it (yes I'm a lazy Nigerian youth ).

The only exception is if he creates his video game and sell it abroad, and that will limit the potential of the video game (Don't have time to type reasons )

derrydinny:
so you think you are now successful because you are a nairaland mod?



to all shouting, nigerians are not ready for video gamers, how many nigerians subscribe to gaming websites?, before telling the govt to copy other countries, research well on the citizens.. how many nigerians are well fed to the extent of subscribing for video games? we can't copy everything oyinbo people do abeg

This guy just said half of what I wanted to say

LucemFerre:
So game development is neither technology nor education? Okay
On to the next

It is. But at this stage in our development as a nation, I would rather have an Elon Musk or Bill Gates than have a video game designer. The world is rapidly advancing towards artificial intelligence and we are already too far behind.

I love games, but no matter how good a game is, at the end of the day its just entertainment. There are more important tech goals for us to achieve before we can consider the luxury of a gaming industry.

rentAcock:
I'm more amazed that you took your time to write this rubbish. Video games are a form of entertainment and nothing more. So many grown men waste valuable time playing silly video games that doesn't enrich them in anyway. Why should Nigeria even have a video game title Aren't there more Nigerian youths already languishing away by gambling? Video games leads to lack of productivity and that's the last thing a society needs. Abeg there are already too many forms of media fighting for our eyeballs, we don't need more of them.

Just your opinion... what you don't know is always bigger than you...