Mumbai, India.

This is the pride of India and the most prosperous place in India.

Entering June, the weather in Mumbai is already quite hot, and the high temperature of close to 40 degrees has absolutely nothing to do with comfort.

Mumbai is an amazing city, with modern high-rises and slums home to more than 10 million people living next to each other.

In an apartment building near the slum area, Summit sits in front of his computer with a frown, the screen showing a picture of a game as he runs it and writes something on a piece of paper on his desk.

The computer was running an indie game developed by Summit and his companions, and the development work was largely over, but the results of the tests were not satisfactory, and the number of bugs was somewhat high.

Including a lot of vicious bugs that seriously affect the game process.

Beads of sweat kept sliding down his face, and an electric fan next to him kept spinning, but the wind was like steam.

There is no air conditioning, but in an apartment building like this, it is difficult to do much of a difference even if there is air conditioning. Poor infrastructure has made power supply to this area a huge problem. Power outages are a fairly normal thing here.

What's more, although this apartment building is not a slum, the electricity supply is absolutely terrible, and high-power electrical appliances are definitely a heavy burden on the electrical wiring of this house.

Fortunately, Summit has become accustomed to this situation, and enduring the heat is a skill that many people in India must master.

More than that, he hopes there won't be another damn blackout today.

The area has a stable power supply for only ten hours a day, and other outages are not blackouts at all, and the power outages that Summit fears are the intermittent power outages that often occur during the ten hours of power supply.

The unstable power supply is an absolute nightmare for game developers.

In order to cope with this situation, Summit had to spare some of his limited funds to purchase generators and relays to cope with the sudden power outage.

Just as Summit manipulated the characters and monsters on the screen to fight, the door was opened, and a voice rang in his ears: "My brother Summit, do you smell the curry?" ”

A tall man walked into the room and placed two plates of strong-smelling tawny missteps on a table in the inner room.

One of the characteristics of the Indian diet is that no matter what kind of ingredients, they are eventually made into a yellow-brown pasty curry.

Summit turned his head, looking a little unkind, and he said a little angrily: "Dijan, I must remind you that we are running out of time, and we only have ten damn hours a day to work, and you have disappeared for five hours today, wasting a full half of your time!" ”

Dijean is the name of the tall man, a college classmate of Summit and a partner in his indie game studio.

In India, IT is a very popular job, and the IT industry is also one of the pillar industries in India, India has a huge IT outsourcing industry chain, and IT practitioners from India or Indian origin have gradually occupied key positions in major Internet companies.

Summit and Dijang were classmates in the computer science department of the university, and after graduating from university, they made a rather rare decision instead of going to an IT company in India or studying abroad to find an opportunity to enter a large company.

Engaged in indie game development.

It was a difficult decision to understand in India, and it was Samit who made the decision, and his decision was difficult for many people, including his parents.

To be precise, Summit is an idealist, and his excellent grades and solid foundation in college make it easy for him to find a job that pays well in India, or leave India to pursue his studies and join a top Internet company.

However, Summit's dream of indie games made him make a risky decision under great pressure.

Dijang is a college classmate of Summit's, and after hearing that Summit has decided to make an indie game, he rushes to join his project.

Compared with Summit, Dijean was not as dazzling as him in college, with average grades and average skills.

Summit didn't care about that, he was very excited to meet a like-minded person, or his classmate.

So the two found a cheap house in Mumbai and started working on the game.

However, it soon became clear that Summit discovered that his classmate lacked the spirit and enthusiasm of an indie game developer, and that his greatest characteristic was that he had all kinds of unrealistic fantasies and a penchant for drilling.

For the sake of Dijang's face of sharing half of the expenses, Summit did not kick him out. In fact, Summit alone does more than 70% of the workload.

Hearing Summit's complaints, Dijang waved his hand and said, "I helped you find a delicious curry, my brother, I think you should come first to fill your stomach, how is our Asura doing?" ”

"Asura" is the name of their game, a game developed with the cultural background of Indian Buddhism, the player controls the story of a young man possessed by Asura and different objects to fight, the main gameplay is a game with combat as the main element.

Summit picked up a piece of paper from the table, slapped it heavily in front of Dijan, and said solemnly: "In a week, I hope that by this time next week, these bugs will disappear from our program." ”

Dijang swallowed a bite of the curry and glanced at Summit with some embarrassment.

Summit responded to him coldly and said, "Or do you want to exchange it for my share?" We're running out of time, Dijan, and I don't want to put something full of bugs in front of the reviewers and be thrown into a corner. ”

"Asura" has been open for more than a year, but due to the slow progress, the original release was more than half a year later.

After seeing the indie game support plan released by the Steam platform, Summit decisively decided to release it early, cut off some of the original content, and released it at the first time.

"Asura", which was originally planned to be released at Christmas, was brought forward to July.

There are both support programs and financial pressures.

Dijean accepted the note. Putting down the spoon, he whispered to Summit, "My brother, I believe that with your skills, you will definitely be able to make a perfect work, how beautiful and elegant our Asura is. But I have a more important thing to do now. ”

Dijang moved a little closer to Summit and said, "Have you heard of Vikas?" Vikas Salama, our compatriots. He is currently working on the Steam platform and will be participating in the independent game review this time. ”

Summit was stunned for a moment, and seemed to understand what Dijean meant.

Indians are notoriously united at some point.

Sure enough, Dee Jean smiled and said, "I recently reached out to Mr. Vikas and told him about our work. He was very appreciative of our work and work, and promised to help us with this game review. He suggested that we submit an application by July and go on sale in the middle of this month. My brother, our Asura is about to go viral all over the world, and we can move out of this damn broken house. ”