AKA “Boet Fighter: The Game: The Movie!” Boet Fighter was (well, technically still is) a video game, first and foremost. It also became a social media phenomenon in South Africa, and an often-imitated comedy brand unto itself. But mainly, it was a game (one that even broke an iStore record and won a Loerie and
At the 2020 Loerie Awards in November, Boet Fighter’s collaboration with KFC South Africa/Ogilvy SA/Mindshare picked up a Bronze Award in the category; Digital Applications, Games and Interactive Tools. This follows the same campaign winning a Silver and Bronze at the Bookmark Awards earlier the same year. The awards were a recognition of our collaboration
At last night’s 2020 Bookmark Awards (South Africa’s benchmark awards ceremony for digital media, advertising and content), Boet Fighter’s collaboration with KFC South Africa/Ogilvy SA/Mindshare picked up two awards; a Silver and a Bronze. The awards were a recognition of our collaboration to create custom Boet Fighter arcade machines for KFC’s stand at Comic Con
This week (Nov 28, 2019), we successfully launched the first mobile port of the original PC version of Boet Fighter for iOS on the iStore. And it went brilliantly! We quickly shot to number one on the SA downloads chart, and would remain there for some weeks to come. The iOs mobile version, at the
After more than a year in development, Boet Fighter for PC finally launched this week on Steam. Priced at ZAR199, it’s on sale and, so far, selling well! We launched our officially teaser trailer (below) a few weeks ago, as well as put on an excellent launch event at The Nexus Hub in Randburg. Thanks
A “new” video of an SA Boytjie narrating a game drive has been doing the rounds again. It’s actually Part Two in a 2016 series where my alter ego, Hard Eddy, jols some schweet, kak-informative descriptions over a wildlife video shot by my charnas at PVR films… Sadly, these videos, which seem to go viral
It wasn’t intended to ever face the public. Heck, it wasn’t even intended as an actual promo clip. But a few hours later, the secret of our game was out, and getting tens of thousands of views… a day! Right at the very start of the (then secret) Boet Fighter project, in August 2018 or
Meet “Braaian Webber”; a “schweet South African boytjie” of a braai, longing for the spark to be put back into his life. I had the pleasure of providing the voice of Braaian (who happens to sound a great deal like my youtube comedy character, Hard Eddy). It was a really fun voice-over, which allowed a bit
