Events
Raahi, the 1990s Goa Rickshaw Game, Was Playable in Panjim
Kalp Studio took its tuk-tuk sim to an arcade about the future of cities, made with Storiculture for the Emergence festival in Panaji.
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Studio Oleomingus
Studio Oleomingus Shows a Game About Mapping Paradise
The five-and-a-half-minute video is on view free at Anyang Pavilion in South Korea through Nov. 29.
Sahej Rahal
Sahej Rahal's Azalabad salvages a drowned village
The open-world civilization built for ifa's ARE YOU FOR REAL is still playable on New Art City—the browser as exhibition hall.
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Podcast
What a Rickshaw Knows That a Car Doesn't [Podcast]
I ask Kalp Studio's Mannat Jain why she built a game around the ride between two places, and set it in a 1990s Goa that never existed.
RAAHI
The Long Way Around
Kalp Studio built Raahi around the thing most games treat as dead time—the ride between two places—and set it in a 1990s Goan town that never existed.
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Prashast Thapan: To live and die
Through his upcoming game "1000 Deaths," designer Prashast Thapan examines mortality and perspective by having players cycle through multiple lives in condensed 15-minute experiences.
News
Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel Kim is now a videogame too
Rudyard Kipling is a complicated figure. On the one hand, you have the arch-colonialist, the author of the poem “The White Man’s Burden,” and an all-around fan of Empire and the progress it supposedly represented. The man who spoke of subjected populations as “Half-devil and half-child,” and celebra
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Somewhere is back, and it has new, surreal images to show you
The two-person Studio Oleomingus has resumed work on Somewhere, their first person exploration game set in an alternative Colonial India. To demonstrate, they’ve given us a new peek at an environment in their surreal polygonal world. The first screenshot shows off a car, maybe from the early ’60s, b
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An enormous and beautiful Indian transmedia project comes to videogames
In 2013, the Sri Lankan newspaper The Sunday Times interviewed Avinash Kumar, an experimental VJ (video jockey) from India, about a project he was heading: a short story that became a graphic novel that became an album with his audio-visual collective BLOT!, which then became something else altogeth
Feature
IGX spotlights potential for the gaming industry in India
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. On a warm November morning last year in Mumbai, a crowd of thousands of curious young people queued up on the street for a chance to try out the latest and greatest in videogames. Some were decked out in cosplay outfits, others came dressed l
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Cultural representation in Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. India is a diverse country, home to some 3499 separate communities and 325 different languages and dialects, according to one anthropological survey. But representation of the region in videogames has been lazy at best and non-existent at wor
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Ancient India: The Birthplace of Modern Game Design
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel Ancient India produced some of the oldest and longest surviving games in history, and though the country’s videogame creators face modern day challenges, its contributions to game design are undeniable. They’ve gone by many different names and