KIRAN KULKARNI
Design Leadership
In 2014, I met Srinivas Bylahalli, an enthusiastic venture creator. We got curious on the idea of creating locally relevant stories in the form of play. As the first idea, we founded Puzzledesh along with Sindhu Murthy. We created puzzles with Indian traditional painting depicting the stories of gods, mythology.
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During the Covid, we got several requests to make games easily accessible to buy online. I saw this as an opportunity to create contemporary Indic board games as extended play experiences. I created tacitgames.in as an experiment in D2C design driven venture. The revenue positive studio is testament to solid product market fit of the idea.
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I designed Hampi & the Sun Jewel, Bimba, board games to explore Indic content in play experiences.
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