Months after joining the ID@Xbox Developer Acceleration Program, Kiro’o Games is pleased to announce the release of “Aurion: Legacy of Kori-Odan” on Xbox console, with the support of the ID@Xbox Developer team. 

The game which is developed by Cameroonian Kiro’o Games and founded by Olivier Madiba was originally released for the PC almost a decade ago and was published by Plug in Digital.

Since Kiro’o started making games In Africa, the studio had been facing lots of “NOs” from major console makers. They had to turn to Microsoft to get the chance of making their dream come true.

“It all started 10 years ago when we created our own game engine on XNA. We were too poor to buy Unity or Unreal license at the time”, says Olivier Madiba

Xbox has been the first to trust Kiro’o Games on his way of building an RPG African-Fantasy powerful game. After reviewing Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan, they decided to extend an offer for the purpose of porting the title to Xbox.

Consequently, the whole ID@Xbox Developer Acceleration Program team became so dedicated to help the team.

“I remember an Xbox developer helping me for free on Discord to understand the console framework, teaching me the optimization etc. He was so kind and passionate about helping”, says Olivier Madiba

One of the Xbox team members especially dedicated to the gaming company was the Xbox Manager in Africa, Temi Afolabi. He was literally porting Kiro’o Games with the same dedication of a founder.

“He answered my WhatsApp questions at 1 AM, helping us having discussions with the right person of the right sub team”, ends Olivier.

Kiro’o Games is one of the top African gaming studios with two awarded games and more than 10 years’ experience. They are building a Fantasy Cross-Media IP called the Aurionverse. They have ambition to make the Aurionverse a 500M IP by 2030.

The team is mainly focused on the mobile game Aurion: Kajuta Gem Fighters (Aurion KGF) with the aim to bring in the first 500K members of the AurionVerse Community.