Thirsty Suitors is a rare game, the kind its creators argue couldn’t have been made even five years ago.
“Fitting in” followed Ekanayake from his school days into his career as a game developer, decades later. Until recently, he struggled with incorporating his identity into his work. “All my games in the past in the industry are, well, made for mostly white audiences,” he says. “I think over the years I've also self-filtered—. For this new project, Ekanayake took that fear and transformed it into something more powerful: a game with South Asian culture directly at its heart.
“We both realized neither of us really can speak directly to arranged marriage,” Ekanayake says. “There’s a lot of different perspectives on it, and I don’t feel comfortable making a game about something that I’m not really familiar with.”
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