It’s not easy to make a video game in Nigeria. But this developer created an action-packed game entirely by himself – and captured the attention of a major publisher. Feranmi Oladosu spoke to Yara Elmjouie about his game, “Tossdown.”

@yelmjouie Thank you for featuring Tossdown :) You can Wishlist Tossdown here to stay updated!

@yelmjouie He didn’t just mention “Paperboy” wow!!! That just took me back 25 years! Amazing game 👏🏾

@yelmjouie Amazing stuff, takes a lot of passion to work on games in Nigeria!

@yelmjouie My childhood friend dabbled in this as far back as 2011. For many years after whenever I stumbled on a local video game convention I'd go to check if he was there. Good to see that there are now many others in that space.

@yelmjouie This looks sick! Already wishlisted.

@yelmjouie Looks sick!! 🔥 Congratulations @theferfactor

@yelmjouie If it’s not play to earn, forget it Nigeria’s economy doesn’t understand gaming to relieve stress.

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@AduratheArtist @yelmjouie Awesome stuff

@yelmjouie Bro turned daily life in Nigeria into a game. Peak

@yelmjouie Great Stuff

@yelmjouie Nice 👍

@yelmjouie That's huge for Nigeria. Big step in the game.

@yelmjouie This is brilliant. Well.done to him.

@yelmjouie Wow 👌, bro keep going

@yelmjouie Awesome

@yelmjouie Real Labour of love

@yelmjouie Congrats brother man. Up Naija 🇳🇬 🙌🏽🙌🏽

@yelmjouie This looks dope, will be checking out 🙏🏽

@yelmjouie W’s in the chat!!!

@yelmjouie @Credo_II uyasala

@yelmjouie .

@yelmjouie Congratulations

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@yelmjouie Actually awesome.

@yelmjouie solo dev building a full action game from Nigeria and landing a publisher... that's the story right there. the tooling for game dev has gotten so much better that geography matters less than it ever did. talent was always distributed, opportunity is finally catching up

@yelmjouie Great job @theferfactor 👏🏽 👏🏽