"We see ourselves as building powerful play-based experiences": Anand Ramachandran of Bigfatphoenix on creating Farside Stories
Farside Stories is soon to become a revolutionary game, blurring the lines between art and games. India has started producing and creating some brilliant indie gems and commercial games.
While the current market split boils down to people who are mobile-gaming centric and those who prefer traditional gaming, some of the more interesting projects from the country are coming from the mobile gaming industry, with gems such as SuperGaming's Silly Royal, among others.
One particular game that has already caught the attention of many is Bigfatphoenix's Farside Stories, a conversational RPG that effectively blends the age-old Role-Playing and Visual Novel genre. Interestingly, both these genres are not something you generally hear a lot about in the country.
The co-founder of Bigfatphoenix, Anand Ramachandranan, recently sat down with Sportskeeda Esport's Sampad Banerjee and spoke about what made the studio go the route of blending these two genres, the vision behind their studio, the game they are currently working on, and what it is like to develop a game in this country.
Q) First of all, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. Can we start by letting you people introduce themselves and the studio?
Ramachandran: Sure, I’m Anand Ramachandran and the co-founder of Bigfatphoenix Interactive. I’ve been making games for over 15 years now. I’ve been with large companies like Zynga, Hike Messenger, and BYJU’S, as well as a few smaller ones.
Along with me at BFP are a whole bunch of amazingly talented folks who have worked at BYJU’S, Sesame Street, Disney, IBM, Dhruva Interactive, and Zynga. We’re unique in that we have really strong learning designers, game designers, engineers, artists, and product folks in one cohesive
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