the mahabharata
this is how the thread took birth:
love for uday->classical music high->hunt for good classical film songs->"kahan se aaye badra" (in raga megh)->"ata shri mahabharata katha"
the mahabharata serial that b.r. chopra created years ago means much, especially to those of us (me) who associate our childhood with sunday mornings that began with the unforgettable "SnP nPm PmR SnSnS" (showing off :). anyway, this was just the build-up for what i really wanted to talk about -
would it not be interesting to create a tool that could teach kids the mahabharata? considering that all the characters in the epic are so clearly either good or evil, it could, in fact, be a good vs. evil game that kids could play, where they become the 'good' guys, i.e. krishna, the pandavas, etc. and try to beat the 'bad' guys, i.e. kamsa, the kauravas, in the process learning about the different tales from the mahabharata. there could be informational messages every now and then. all the characters could have their specific identities and 'avatars', so to speak. oh, pun, ha ha :).
why this would be convincing as a game - needs to be thought out a little further. why this would be an educational tool is convincing enough, i think. has someone already done this before? i bet. if you find anything, let me know.
5 comments:
yeah yeah! there are only a billion if you look online.
oh well, it was an original idea for me :).
i totally agree with you that it would make a fantastic video game, but i don't agree at all that the epic's characters are clearly good or evil. in fact it is the multi-dimensionality of the characters that would make the game more interesting.
uff...comments from the gulf...what a popular blog!! :)
just commenting to agree with amaranth's sentiment above, the characters are far from being clearly good or evil.
ufff, the gulf indeed :). s also sent me a comment saying exactly the same thing. you're all right (proof by volume ;). it's one of those things - you think/expect one thing, it turns out to be just the opposite, and then you forget which opposite you had first thought that was proved wrong... you know what i mean? :)
it sounds complicated, but that's what happened :).
Oh, speaking of which, this december in chennai, i met a lady who'd made a ramayan board game. kinda like snakes and ladders. v. boring though.
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