So I finished The Cave completely, and while playing that I came across a quote in it from the Bhagavad Gita, if you don't know what that is just follow the link. Instead of moving onto the wonderful DmC I ended up downloading a copy of that book and reading it cover to cover. That story is pretty fucking epic to put it mildly, and it got me to thinking, "Why hasn't India made a huge big budget blockbuster yet?" I went down a rabbit hole for about an hour reading about the state of Indian game development. The largest game I've been found to have been developed and published in India was a movie tie-in to Ghajini, which is a psychological thriller. The movie was highly successful, became the number 1 grossing Bollywood film upon release and currently stands still as number 7 highest grossing. The game though was a huge failure, apparently buggy and not promoted well. Sounds like movie tie in games here.

According to Sunil Kinshuk, which is sort of prolific indie game developer from India, there are about 20,000 game developers currently inside India as of 2011. He doesn't go onto talk about what they're doing but it's clear the vast majority are just outsourcers, with a much smaller number making mobile games. Since Ghajini The Game released and was a commercial and critical dud, the Indian market has more than doubled. All India really needs is one game to take off, the talent is there and the potential market is huge.

Before I'd read the Bhagavad Gita, my only knowledge of that epic was through Grant Morrison's 18 Days, which is basically the Hindu equivalent of Too Human and retells the Mahabharata in a future science fantasy epic. Presumably make it an RPG right? I don't know I'm rambling at this point but I just thought it would be cool to share the rabbit hole I jumped down with you guys. I want an epic Indian RPG where I can see a 10 minute summon animation of Karna or Ghatotkacha unleashing complete destruction, is that too much to ask for?