A cynical Indian colloquial goes “This happens only in India”. First, a kid called Prince falls down a tiny 60 feet deep pit and is stuck there for nearly 50 hours. This becomes news of national importance and the news media milks it for whatever it’s worth for that entire 50 hours. Had he been there forever, we could have even had a true life version of the movie The Truman Show. He is eventually rescued, and gets Rs.400,000 in total, and free medical treatment and checkups from the government.
Now Games2Win has created a game based on the incident called The Prince of Kurukshetra, where you and I can try to rescue young Prince from the hole he’s in. This is done by building a completely connected shaft using varying types of pipe shapes provided and placing them in the correct grids of an underground map. I tried it – not as easy as it sounds. Games2Win has tied up with ZeeNews for this game. The game features a Zee News van and begins with a comment from a reporter. This Indiatelevision.com report states that the game will be available on ZeeNews.com with a three day lag before it is made available on Games2Win. It’s already there at Games2Win, and there’s just a flash promo on the Zee news site. Zee News will also plug the game on its news channel. For now, it is an online game, and a mobile version will also be launched.
I just saw the Games2Win website, and am very impressed with the kind of games they’ve developed – there’s a headbutting game based on the Zidane-Materazzi incident which is fun, a ‘Bollywood Buckwaas’ based on Salman Khan’s Black Buck misadventures, and ‘Flood Bath’ based on floods in India. Now if only the Prince of Kurukshetra could have been released three weeks ago, when the incident was still fresh in peoples mind.
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