This husband-wife duo made a cosy indie video game set in a rural Indian village

“On one of our travels to Rajasthan, we found the Kumbhalgarh Fort, situated on rolling hills. Around the fort were ruins that looked so beautiful, lonely, and mysterious. We trekked through those ruins, and at the bottom of the rolling hills was a little valley with a very scenic village. That sparked our imagination, and we thought this would be the perfect setting for a video game adventure,” recalls Mala Sen, art director at Niku Games, the studio behind The Palace on the Hill, a video game set in rural India.