सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ।
ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि॥ २-३८  

sukhaduḥkhe same kṛtvā lābhālābhau jayājayau।
tato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṃ pāpamavāpsyasi॥ 2-38

Holding pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as alike, gird yourself up for the battle.
Thus, you shall not incur any sin.
- Shreemad Bhagwad Geeta 2-28

Welcome to 1st DevLog of Kurukshetra!

Kurukshetra is a region named after King Kuru, the ancestor of Kauravas and Pandavas in the Kuru kingdom, as depicted in epic Mahabharata. The Kurukshetra War of the Mahabharata is believed to have taken place here. The narrative describes individual battles, deaths of various heroes from both the sides, military formations, war diplomacy, meetings and discussions among the characters, and the weapons used. The Shreemad Bhagwad Geeta, The Song of God, was recited at the start of the Dharma Yuddha (righteous war) between Pandavas and Kauravas.

But what is this game about?

Kurukshetra is a massive multiplayer online empire building strategic role-playing game inspired by Indian mythology, culture and documented history.

Think of games like Age of Empires or Rise of Nations, building cities after cities expanding your empire and finally conquering your enemy or rather crushing them but on a much bigger scale, 10 cities max? Whats that limit? Build 100, build 1000 if you want to! But since the in-game population and stuff grows similar to real life, i.e., you can have thousands of people living in a single city, it becomes difficult to manage each and every citizen of yours, and more so to animate things like military fights or even just idle people as seen in AoE or RoN, that too in a browser.

With this game we want to take a different approach from the genre of empire building games. The game focuses on overall development of an empire that is things like culture, trade, research, and economics and not just making the strongest military and crushing other players. In fact, the game mechanism will be built in such a way that would discourage and even penalize players for focusing only on a single aspect of empire building while also giving the player the freedom of choosing their own play style.

We’ll have detailed articles covering each and every aspect and for the many features of the game, but writing articles, or devlogs for that matter, isn't exactly our forte so that’ll take time. Till then if you want to stay updated consider subscribing to our mailing list here. If you got any ideas or just in general want to chat with us, our socials are linked below, you can also drop us mail at [email protected] or fill this from.

Until next time 👋🏻

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