Posted on Thu 5 Nov 2009
Michael Conroy of Wired UK's culture section interviewed successful game designers and studio residents Simon Games about their latest pervasive game. Drom, which means road, explores the precarious life of the Romani community, the generations-old nomadic people, who find their…
Posted on Thu 5 Nov 2009
Oscar winning Visual Effects company Rhythm and Hues (founded in LA in 1987) set up in Mumbai seven years ago to create the first quality animation/VX studio that could cover the entire production process.
Posted on Thu 5 Nov 2009
Last night we went to Paradise in Hyderabad. Described by Aneesh as something he had waited his whole life to do, this place is world famous for its Biryani. And it was pretty nice rice. Beautifully layered, moist and tasty. Worth a drive of over an hour? Am not sure myself, but totally worth it to…
Posted on Wed 4 Nov 2009
Studio Residents Simon Games' new game Drom is now live! Latest update from Simon Games:We have stuck a GPS tracker in a caravan and we are just setting off to London. The object of the game is to find us a place to spend the night in our caravan as close to the Soho Theatre in London as possible.
Posted on Wed 4 Nov 2009
The two companies we have visited who have excited me most (perhaps inevitably) are Nokia Research and HP Labs India in Bangalore, both of who are concentrating on finding ways to enable digitally disadvantaged people
Posted on Tue 3 Nov 2009
Before I left with Bangalore I had the fortune of having dinner with Pooja Warier, Director of UnLtd India.
Posted on Tue 3 Nov 2009
Imagine walking through a film, but it is happening on the streets you walk down everyday. Studio resident Duncan Speakman's 'as if it were the last time' invites you to take part in a unique subtlemob experience.
Posted on Tue 3 Nov 2009
Traffic in Mumbai and Bangalore was pretty crazy, no lanes, everyone trying to squeeze through gaps, occasional cows, lots of rickshaws and beeping. This makes cities pretty hard to get around by car - the trip back from Nokia took us 2.5 hours. So i thought i would share - click here for a video of…
Posted on Sun 1 Nov 2009
Today we also met Sangam Gupta of Trine who set up his games studio after working for EA in the States. Using the capital he had saved from his college business he convinced six of his EA colleagues to come to India and started up the studio, which makes console games, in New Delhi.Trine is an…
