Culture as a creative force
Dance, music and craft shape the world and its gameplay, bringing cultural practice to audiences through play.
Support Us / ANTARA
Help living knowledge
find its next audience.
A game can carry the knowledge of a dancer, the imagination of an artisan and the memory of a place.
Help bring ANTARA to new audiences through games, performance, music, illustrated storytelling and artistic research.
Download the short pitch deckA 6-page introduction / PDF
Our story / Since 2013
A world built
through encounter.
ANTARA began with Jayalakshmi Eshwar’s dance production and a conversation about flight. As Antariksha Sanchar, it grew into a game prototype, a touring opera, music and a graphic novel.
Epic MegaGrants-supported research has since developed dance capture, museum collaborations, digitisation and worldbuilding in Unreal Engine.
Our next milestone is Chapter One: a 30-minute playable demo targeted for December 2027.
Explore the journeyNew lives for collections
Artistic interpretation reconnects objects and histories with the communities whose knowledge gives them meaning.
A world with many audiences
Game, stage, page and gallery each offer a distinct audience and a different way to collaborate.
Patrons & cultural funders
Help independent worlds take shape.
Long-term cultural work needs time for research, practitioner collaboration and artistic development.
Independent games in India face a shortage of patient, risk-taking support.
Patronage sustains artist collaborations, music and dance sessions, residencies, documentation and the making of Chapter One.
Support a focused strand or the wider practice, with scope, acknowledgement and updates agreed together.
Museums, archives, galleries & festivals
Let collections
enter new worlds.
A collection can become an interactive environment, a character, an installation or a live performance.
We welcome collection-based commissions, digitisation, artistic research, public programmes and performance invitations.
Our enquiry into digital repatriation asks how cultural material can reconnect with living practice. Attribution, permissions and relationships with source communities are part of the work from the outset.
Investors & publishing partners
Build the
next chapter.
ANTARA is a narrative adventure for PC, developed in Unreal Engine and grounded in music, performance and visual development since 2013.
We seek partners for financing, production, publishing and audience development. Our immediate focus is the 30-minute Chapter One demo, targeted for December 2027.
Contact Avinash to discuss scope, milestones, budget and commercial structure.
Take the conversation further
A short introduction to ANTARA.
The world, the game, the creative team and ways to take part.
Support & partnerships
Let’s make the next chapter.
Ways to support ANTARAOr email avinash@quicksand.co.in
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