We are so excited to be featured on LudoNarraCon from 4-8 May. Join Yadu Rajiv, founder of gamedev.in as he plays the just released prologue of The Palace on the Hill. The game is an adventure-management game about a boy from 90s rural India and his struggles to go to college. Filled with activities like making art, growing vegetables, managing a tea shop and running errands for quirky NPCs, the game gives you a relaxing slice-of-life village experience with an uplifting story. Hope you enjoy and please do try it out for yourself. You can keep up with the developers on Twitter and Discord. Do check out the other wonderful games participating in LudoNarraCon. Cheers and love from Niku Games.

[ 2023-05-04 07:52:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Palace on the Hill is a story based, open-world, adventure game.
The story is about a teenage boy, Vir, set in a hillside village in India. Vir is an aspiring artist and creates art by exploring the ruins of an ancient kingdom in his village.
In his explorations, he discovers various things and stories told by the villagers which become references for his artworks.
Vir's father, a farmer, is struggling with debt due to failed crops and loses the savings meant for his son's college.
During the course of his summer vacation, Vir gets an exciting opportunity to showcase his artworks in a gallery which will earn him a lot of money.
To fulfil this quest Vir has to create a series of paintings depicting the royal history of their village.
Every player of this game will step into Vir's shoes and explore their village and its historical ruins, find puzzling references for paintings and discover lost legends from various people while also making new friends and doing fun activities.

Features:

• Emotional story
  
• Vibrant hand-painted watercolour graphics.
  
• Indian Cooking
  
• Relaxing puzzle based painting mechanic
  
• 15th century Indian royal palace exploration