Detective Dotson Director On Representing Modern India in Video Games
14Detective Dotson director, Shalin Shodhan, talks about his upcoming game and how he wants to represent modern India. Thsi game was presented at Future Game Show @FutureGamesShow by the voice of Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2 & Tifa from Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
He shares about his journey of working in Pixar on 6 animated movies, 3 of which won Oscars. He also talks about his time at EA & starting his game studio, Masala Games. He describes the innovative idea of pixel art in a 3D world and the challenges of building assets from scratch.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Arthur Morgan & Britt Baron in the game
02:03 Game's response from IGN & Streamers
03:19 Passion for computer graphics
06:08 Working in Pixar movies
08:20 Learnings from Pixar
10:30 Leaving Pixar
12:05 Working with EA on Spore
15:53 Making the first video game
19:09 Initial concept of Detective Dotson
21:00 Challenge of building assets from scratch
24:32 Concerns for Indian audience?
27:17 Detective Dotson is also a show
30:00 Throwing litter as a game mechanic
31:45 What should people be excited about ?
34:00 Future of game development in India
38:12 Value of Xbox Game Pass for an Indie developer
40:27 Shalin's top 3 fav games
41:58 Addiction of Clash Royale
42:37 Most underrated games
44:12 When is Detective Dotson getting released?
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