Tectonic: SA Open Source Game Developers' Quest for Glory

"A group of South African game developers will meet in Johannesburg [today] to hammer out plans for the development of an open source adventure role-playing game that they hope will reinvigorate South Africa's game development industry.

"Project leader, Henti Smith, says the group is aiming to create a game in the spirit of the early-'90s Sierra classic, Quest for Glory, which was 'a graphical text-based adventure game, but with some role-playing aspects to it.' The game is likely to be themed on African folklore and mythology..."

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