Indra Anzar 📿🎮
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🦚 I trace how the sacred slips into virtual worlds, between Hinduism and video games. Everything is līlā, divine play (I suspect the gods don't keep score). 👹 Raji: Kaliyuga by Nodding Heads Games
✏️ Tracing the gods My tablet sits beside my mandir. On screen, a 3D lingam waits for its ritual bath, the abhishekam. I have no idea how it's done, so I watch, then repeat: each step the app displays, I reproduce with the very real objects of my puja thali. #Hinduism #VideoGames #GameStudies
Tracing the Gods
With no community to teach me the gestures, I performed a Hindu rite by aping an app, the way you’d cook along to a video. Well, almost.
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🍃 Ginkgo, six months old, shares his name with a tree that outlived the dinosaurs. I suspect he got the memories too: this is the face of someone who watched the asteroid land (and still holds me partly responsible). #Cats #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky
A ‘Ramayana’ 101 for Western Audiences The Bollywood blockbuster has millennia-old source material and modern political baggage. www.vulture.com/article/rama...
A Ramayana 101 for Western Audiences
The Bollywood blockbuster has millennia-old source material and modern political baggage.
vulture.com
Even for someone at quite a remove from worldly entanglement, I've been thinking for months of talking to someone about symptoms of #depression and all of a sudden, this morning, inexplicably, the mood suddenly lifted. Weird that...🤗
The Environments of Raji: Kaliyuga 🪷 #indiegame #indiedev #madeinindia
✏️ Tracing the gods My tablet sits beside my mandir. On screen, a 3D lingam waits for its ritual bath, the abhishekam. I have no idea how it's done, so I watch, then repeat: each step the app displays, I reproduce with the very real objects of my puja thali. #Hinduism #VideoGames #GameStudies
Tracing the Gods
With no community to teach me the gestures, I performed a Hindu rite by aping an app, the way you’d cook along to a video. Well, almost.
medium.com
Religion & Video Games 📿🎮 Faith meets play: researchers, devs and curious souls Let me know if you want to be added to this starter pack 🙏🏽 go.bsky.app/RZFizXD #Religion #VideoGames #Gamestudies