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The ascent of Indian video game development
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In 2020, the developers of Raji: An Ancient Epic (one of the most well-known video games to come out of India) noted how difficult it had been to finance their work; the rejections from potential investors were so numerous that the founders came close to asking their team to look for other jobs. (They eventually received an Unreal Dev Grant.)
Raji ended up being novel in the attention it received as an Indian-developed game in the West. In the same year that the game was released, the prime minister of India himself, Narendra Modi, made a statement about wanting to see more video games about Indian culture and folk tales as part of a campaign known as “Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat.”
2023, thus far, has also been significant for Indian developers and Indian culture in video games. In March, Xbox announced a program to help ‘underrepresented creators’, and one of the games chosen for this was The Palace on the Hill, from an Indian developer, Niku Games. Two months later, Sony launched its own program to specifically support emerging game developers in India. Venba, by Visai Games (based in Toronto), released in July and has been celebrated for the way it handles the depiction of Indian immigrants in Canada and the experience of the Indian diaspora there.
There is a sense of momentum, of things rapidly changing, for Indian game development and games that depict Indian culture. We spoke to three different developers based in India about their thoughts on this shift, along with the development of their own games.
Rhea Gupte and Prateek Saxena from imissmyfriends.studio are making the indie RPG Fishbowl, a pixel art game inspired by their own experiences during a time of turmoil. The game is focused on a 21-year-old video editor named Alo; she is isolated at home and grieving for her grandmother.
“Goa, where we live, was one of the many places affected adversely during the pandemic,” Gupte explains. “It was a difficult time for us emotionally to not be able to meet friends and family for long periods of time alongside so much collective grief and loss. However, every day there were also stories of hope, resilience and communities coming together, even if [via] long distance.”
Saxena adds, however, that the pandemic was actually the reason for why they were able to even start their studio, as “all work-related travel had halted” and they found themselves with a lot of time at home, so they decided to channel their “creative energy” into making a game.
Saxena didn’t actually have a computer while growing up; he mainly remembers watching his “best friend play games like Dark Reign, Road Rash and Roller Coaster Tycoon.” Later, his sister won a competition for which the award was a bootleg Famicom system that was just
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