Hi, I am from India. I want to give a little perspective about the video game scene in India.
The video game scene never took off in India. Never. Back in the 90s there used to be some companies which used to fake the NES/SNES consoles and the cartridges were all pirated because of which some people got exposure to it. And whatever these were, they were way out of reach for the masses. We had our own economic issues because of which they never reached the masses. So, people never got introduced to the "gaming" culture as such.
Our socities have had their own problems - socio-economic, cultural, a stressed middle class and to be honest, the only proper exposure that people have had to gaming is via the mobile phone platforms (free games on google play) and that, as anyone would know, is not the best introduction to video games.
The other thing was that it is always considered a "kids" thing to play games in India. As a grown up, if you say that you play video games they look down upon you. This is mostly a cultural problem.
Therefore, I think that it is massive that an indie game of a decent quality has even come out of India at all. I can only imagine the struggles these people who have made it, in India, would have had to go through to make this a reality.
My one request for anyone reading this would be: if this game even mildly interests you, please buy it. And please buy it at full price so that the devs get the money. I can assure you that I am in no way associated with them, I did not know about this game myself until a day ago and yet it fills me with so much Joy that something like this has come from my country. It is an amazing thing.
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Hi,
I am from India. I want to give a little perspective about the video game scene in India.
The video game scene never took off in India. Never. Back in the 90s there used to be some companies which used to fake the NES/SNES consoles and the cartridges were all pirated because of which some people got exposure to it. And whatever these were, they were way out of reach for the masses. We had our own economic issues because of which they never reached the masses. So, people never got introduced to the "gaming" culture as such.
Our socities have had their own problems - socio-economic, cultural, a stressed middle class and to be honest, the only proper exposure that people have had to gaming is via the mobile phone platforms (free games on google play) and that, as anyone would know, is not the best introduction to video games.
The other thing was that it is always considered a "kids" thing to play games in India. As a grown up, if you say that you play video games they look down upon you. This is mostly a cultural problem.
Therefore, I think that it is massive that an indie game of a decent quality has even come out of India at all. I can only imagine the struggles these people who have made it, in India, would have had to go through to make this a reality.
My one request for anyone reading this would be: if this game even mildly interests you, please buy it. And please buy it at full price so that the devs get the money. I can assure you that I am in no way associated with them, I did not know about this game myself until a day ago and yet it fills me with so much Joy that something like this has come from my country. It is an amazing thing.