Dev.Mag was an initiative first batted about in December 2005. Back then, it was only a wild fancy – but, surprisingly enough, people soon latched onto it and half a year later we were well into an online publication staffed by more than a dozen individuals, most of them professionals within their respective fields.

To this day, an online community known as Game.Dev (based at The Forums) is responsible for getting together and putting something out there which they believe can assist and enhance the local game-making crowd. These people are game development enthusiasts of all levels who share the aim of promoting their craft to others. Some are hobbyist programmers, others are professional designers and still others serve as marketing personnel for large South African IT companies.

With each new issue, we hope to incorporate more skills and advice in our quest to create the perfect game development magazine. At the end of the day, we want to have a substantial, local publication that is genuinely able to interest and educate those who make games – and, more often than not, those who haven't yet discovered the joy of doing so!

Over time, the magazine grew, eventually attaining over 100 000 lifetime magazine downloads and then even more. We had covered the big events on the indie calendar, and chatted with some of the biggest household (well, for us at least) names. All this while still being maintained by the same humble crew from the same small South African community.

So, after 30 issues and more than 3 years, we expand.

This very website, our new online presence, is the net product of the magazine’s progress. All the effort of all those people over all those years will now live all together, bringing us closer to our audience and our readers closer to us.

And yet, it's still up to the SA gaming community to help us reach our goal. Analyse, criticise or spread the word. Tell us what to tell you. Help this become a publication that more people can enjoy. And, most importantly, be sure to enjoy it yourself!

Happy reading,
- The Dev.Mag team

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