Company:
- Title: Why Not Games
- Based In: Bangalore, India,
- Founding Date: November, 2015
- Website: https://www.whynotgames.in/
- Press Contact: murthynik1@gmail.com
- Phone: +91 9739818144
- Address: 51/4, 6th Main, 13th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 560003
- Twitter: @murthynikhil
- Skype: @murthynikhil
- Description: Why not games?
Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation
- Title: Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation
- Website: http://www.whynotgames.in/
- Platforms:
- Price: USD: 14.99
- Description: Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation is a post-colonial 4X game where you play a student doing a group report on Gandhi, Churchill and the Raj. It eXplores space left uncharted by the genre and so proposes alternatives to established systems.
- History: When reading Ulysses by James Joyce, I came across the term Syphilisation and happened to be thinking about parody in video games at that time. The game just fell into place from there.
- Features:
- Research actual facts about Gandhi, Churchill and the Raj.
- Try empathy in a 4X game. Play opportunistically if you must, but don’t expect to be treated as clever for doing so.
- Experience some amount of history from below.
- eXplore 4X systems that are not rooted in imperialism.
- Videos:
- Syphilisation Trailer
- Gameplay video
- Talk on postcolonial game design
- Screenshots:
- Credits:
- Nikhil Murthy
The Quiet Sleep
- Title: The Quiet Sleep
- Release Date: Oct. 15, 2017
- Website: http://www.whynotgames.in/
- Platforms:
- Steam (PC / Mac / Linux) - http://store.steampowered.com/app/724510/The_Quiet_Sleep/
- Itch.io (PC / Mac / Linux) - https://whynotgames.itch.io/the-quiet-sleep
- Price: USD 4.99
- Description: The Quiet Sleep is a city builder/tower defense game that is set in your mind. It’s about building out different parts of your personality to achieve goals and deal with issues.
- History: The mechanical overlap between city-building games and tower defense games intrigued me and having it represent thinking seemed fitting.
- Features:
- Build out a personality and watch your mind develop.
- Handle various life situations, including talking to people, finding a job and trying to overthrow a local government.
- Set up structures to keep emotions from overwhelming you!
- Balance keeping things close enough to your self to run smoothly and far enough to be safe from them.
- Trailers:
- The Quiet Sleep Trailer
- The Quiet Sleep Explanation
- Songcraft Explanation
- The Quiet Sleep Playthrough
- Credits:
- Nikhil Murthy
- Screenshots:
