As part of the celebration of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and to bring to forth the story of Indian freedom struggle, Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur on August 24 launched ‘Azadi Quest’, a series of online educational mobile games developed in collaboration with Zynga India.
Key highlights
- The Publications Division signed an MoU with Zynga India to develop a series of games under the ongoing Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
- The Azadi Quest games are available for android and iOS devices in English and Hindi for the people of India and will be available worldwide from September 2022.
- The online gaming company Zynga India was established in 2010 in Bengaluru and has developed some of the most popular game franchises across mobile and web.
- The unique game series, based on the concept of ‘Gamification of Education’ will revolutionize the education sector in the country.
- Game-based learning provides an equitable and lifelong education by expanding the learning process beyond the classroom and age.
- Azadi Quest series will impart the knowledge of India’s freedom struggle and the legends of country’s great freedom fighters, thereby inducing upon the players, a feeling of pride and a sense of duty and will be instrumental in removing the sense of colonial mindset as also emphasized upon by PM in his 76th Independence day speech as ‘Panch Pran of Amrit Kaal’.
- In the past few years India has risen to stand among the top 5 countries in the gaming sector.
- The gaming sector has grown by 28% in 2021 alone. The number of online gamers has risen by 8 percent from 2020 to 2021 and by 2023 the number of such gamers is expected to reach 45 crores.
