Gaming through mythology
Updated Feb 3, 2021, 5:12 pm IST
A gaming company in Pune is making waves with their mythology-based games
The idea for Raji: An Ancient Epic came to Avichal on New Year’s Eve 2013 at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. Completely awed by the beauty of “Patwon ki Haveli”, a palace built in the nineteenth century, Avichal wondered if this could be in a video game
While the whole world is making the most of technology to share information, Nodding Heads Games (NHG), a gaming company based in Pune, Maharashtra, found a smart way to get the digitally proficient generation immerse into the intricacies of Indian mythology.
Stupefied. 18 January 2021
Magic. Have you ever really considered what it means? We re
told what it means a lot, especially in games. We re told it means fireballs and lightning bolts and turning people into sheep. But is that really magic, or is it simply a term used to describe something we ve become accustomed to? It s a thought that s been nagging at me.
It occurred reading The Tombs of Atuan recently, the second Earthsea book by Ursula K. Le Guin. It s a book about a wizard but something about the magic feels different. It feels incomprehensible. It s not defined by dice rolls or numbered values or rules, but worked out somewhere outside of explanation, just past the edge of understanding. A climactic battle happens where you can t see it: in the wizard s mind. He holds off a terrible evil but there are no explanations to lay it bare, no parameters by which to understand it. You understand it only as something extraordinary. And it feels like m
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“An animator one week ago reached out and told us that Raji was the first game he sat with his parents and they played the entire game together. That has never happened before in his entire life.”- Avichal Singh
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Raji: An Ancient Epic is a video game set in ancient India.
Chaos unfolds as demons invade to conquer the human realm with ambitions to overthrow the mighty gods themselves. Amidst this chaos, a girl is chosen, her destiny to face the demon lord Mahabalasura. The demon lord plans to sacrifice Raji s very own younger brother, which will complete a ritual granting him relentless powers.
Blessed by the gods, Raji set s on her journey to rescue her younger brother, and to face the treacherous Mahabalasura.
An adventure awaits.
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India s First Game Awards Nominee, Raji: An Ancient Epic, Can Mature Our Gaming Industry
A still from India s first indie console and PC game, Raji: An Ancient Epic. (Image: Nodding Heads Games)
Built by Indian game studio Nodding Heads Games on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, Raji: An Ancient Epic ranked as one of the finalists in the ‘best debut game’ category at The Game Awards 2020, and is the first PC and console game created by an indie gaming studio in India.
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Raji: An Ancient Epic, India’s first console game that has been developed and designed in the country, received a nomination for the best debut game segment at The Game Awards 2020. While the eventual award for the category was won by UK-based indie game developer Kinetic Games’ debut title, Phasmophobia, Raji: An Ancient Epic’s nomination will serve as an enduring moment in the history of the Indian gaming industry. While mobile gaming has been on steady growth in the country, full-sc