Raji: An Ancient Epic dev discusses making a game that embraces Indian culture

Raji: An Ancient Epic is a pretty unique game. It directly embraces Indian culture in numerous ways, and was made by an Indian team. It's even more impressive when you hear that India doesn't really have much of a gaming scene, and even less in the way of game devs.

In an interview with developer Avichal Singh, we get to hear a bit more about what the project meant to the team, and India as a whole.

The fact that we come from the hard transition of gamers to game developers ourselves means we had grown up knowing that there wasn’t a game you play as a Indian character moving around in a Indian environment. I think that was the first kind of inspiration. That and knowing that we had the skills to pull it off. I mean this is going back in 2014 when Ian, Shruti, and I met. This was at a design college and we knew that we were surrounded by talented folks. We knew we had the competency to pull this off. After that we were able to become a team, and things started to materialize for the following two years. We set out on our ambitions to put India on the game development map, but through a high quality game. That was the mission and now that the game is out, so many people have reached out to us with great reception. For example, like a few minutes ago, one of the biggest rappers in the Indian scene messaged us on Instagram saying it was his dream to make something like this. And we’ve done it for him. And we’ve got a lot of messages like that since release that makes all this a very humbling experience to see the full circle becoming complete.