The Beginning!

What is an Indie Game studio and why are we making one ?

Indie Game is short for Independent Video Game. It's usually a video game that is created without any financial support/investment and it is often created by individuals or a small team. Setting up an Indie Game Studio is not necessarily the most profitable direction to take if you are only thinking business. So what makes us interested in it then ?

We are trying to create a video game, a game created by a small team of 3 people. Only one of us has a passion for video games. The other two members of the team are technical people, yes, but not all that interested in video games. So why are we choosing this path ?

There is no one answer to this. 3 of us has completely different reasons and it all came together and worked out perfectly when we decided to take on this project.

Zaima, who will be the lead for the project actually focused on Game Development in University and created several games for school projects and outside. Her love and passion has always been in video games and she is the reason we decided to take on this project.

For Niru, it's more of a request for a helping hand at this point than anything else. But she is actually the cleverest and most motivated person in the team. So my guess is soon it will be more than just a helping hand.

Lastly for me, it's about story telling. I don't have a passion for video games, but I do see video games as a great medium for story telling. Video game is an interactive medium for story telling where you as an audience is part of the narrative and gets to somewhat live the events of the story. Your decisions affect the outcome and you get to experience all the emotions and tensions by actively taking part in all the events. It's a golden opportunity for story tellers with technical aptitude to express themselves. And our game would be just that. A game that focuses heavily on the narrative and character development than just actions. The world will be built to be engaging and characters intriguing. At least that is the plan.

We are just beginning and there are lots of learn. Such projects can take long and with time, people and their decision can change. But for now, this is what we have decided and we will be journaling here all our progress, challenges and success.

Here to the beginning of Perceptiveus!