When Nouredine Abboud, a former Ubisoft producer and now CEO of Novaquark, was brainstorming potential ideas for a new game, Nicolas Granatino, President of Novaquark and Founder of Paris-based accelerator StemAI.vc, suggested looking Eastward.
With the recent success of the Chinese game Black Myth: Wukong, selling 20 million units in its first month alone, Eastern stories are proving to be insightful and novel to the gaming audience.
“We were exploring regions like the Middle East first, but that has already been explored in games like Prince of Persia. Eventually, we considered India, as we were awed by its mythos: the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, to name a couple. And surprisingly, the stories were very modern,” Granatino tells YourStory.
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