{"id":14311,"date":"2024-05-02T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T09:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/like-taking-a-shovel-to-your-brain-dark-fairytale-game-indika-takes-aim-at-the-russian-orthodox-church\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T09:37:44","slug":"like-taking-a-shovel-to-your-brain-dark-fairytale-game-indika-takes-aim-at-the-russian-orthodox-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/like-taking-a-shovel-to-your-brain-dark-fairytale-game-indika-takes-aim-at-the-russian-orthodox-church\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like taking a shovel to your brain\u2019: dark fairytale game Indika takes aim at the Russian Orthodox church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creative director and writer Dmitry Svetlov explains how his religious upbringing shaped this game about a nun with a rebellious streak<\/p>\n<p>A young woman stands amid the labyrinthine architecture of a Russian nunnery. At first glance, you\u2019d be forgiven for mistaking the scene for one from Tomb Raider. Then the woman moves \u2013 slowly, and without the athletic gait of action hero Lara Croft. Her head is bowed, shrouded in black cloth, and her shoulders are hunched in such a way that you have to angle the camera <em>just so<\/em> to catch a glimpse of her bright, nervous eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Indika, the titular protagonist of this dreamy yet eerily photorealist adventure game, cuts a \u201csubmissive\u201d figure according to its creative director and writer, Dmitry Svetlov \u2013 and that is precisely the point. The Moscow-born developer set out to make a game about the ways, in his view, people have come to \u201chate themselves\u201d while growing too used to \u201cliving in fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/may\/02\/indika-russian-orthodox-church-fairytale-game-dmitry-svetlov-interview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eedb69744751435157df0ab845137031282d4988\/340_0_1094_656\/master\/1094.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=87d2f7a99963a0f220114bb2eeca5bda\" title=\"\u2018Like taking a shovel to your brain\u2019: dark fairytale game Indika takes aim at the Russian Orthodox church\" \/>Creative director and writer Dmitry Svetlov explains how his religious upbringing shaped this game about a nun with a rebellious streak<br \/>\nA young woman stands amid the labyrinthine architecture of a Russian nunnery. At first glance, you\u2019d be forgiven for mistaking the scene for one from Tomb Raider. Then the woman moves \u2013 slowly, and without the athletic gait of action hero Lara Croft. Her head is bowed, shrouded in black cloth, and her shoulders are hunched in such a way that you have to angle the camera just so to catch a glimpse of her bright, nervous eyes.<br \/>\nIndika, the titular protagonist of this dreamy yet eerily photorealist adventure game, cuts a \u201csubmissive\u201d figure according to its creative director and writer, Dmitry Svetlov \u2013 and that is precisely the point. The Moscow-born developer set out to make a game about the ways, in his view, people have come to \u201chate themselves\u201d while growing too used to \u201cliving in fear.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative director and writer Dmitry Svetlov explains how his religious upbringing shaped this game about a nun with a rebellious streak A young woman stands amid the labyrinthine architecture of a Russian nunnery. At first glance, you\u2019d be forgiven for mistaking the scene for one from Tomb Raider. Then the woman moves \u2013 slowly, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/like-taking-a-shovel-to-your-brain-dark-fairytale-game-indika-takes-aim-at-the-russian-orthodox-church\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Like taking a shovel to your brain\u2019: dark fairytale game Indika takes aim at the Russian Orthodox church<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}