Indie developer of creative, bold and sincere games.
A surreal narrative driven simultaneous card game about two siblings dealing with the death of their father.
Appa is a intuitive simultaneous card game with deck building mechanics allowing for very creative gameplay. Each Card, Synergizers or Affliction becomes its own new game mechanic in nuanced ways.
Narrative is a big focus in Appa, inspired by works of Charlie Kaufman and David Lynch. Follow the journey of Varun and Arundhati as they struggle to make sense of their past and search for meaning and belonging in this Surreal Slice of Life drama. Eventually both of them realize they are having the same nightmares and try to make sense of it by making the same game together in real life.
The art of Appa is made with an impressionistic cinematic blend of pixel art comic style, integrating unconventional techniques to create a painterly, soft pixel art style. The Art direction is blend of culturally rich Indian Themes and Surrealism.
Heat Death Studio 