What I did
I direct and lead development on Farsight, the debut game from Studio Noori. It is a dreamcore psychological horror game built around the one image everyone half-remembers from the eye exam: the little house on a hill you stare at through the autorefractor. A routine checkup pulls a twelve-year-old into it.
Direction & production
- Lead a remote team of seven, running the roadmap, task tracking, deadlines, and daily calls.
- Ran press and creator outreach across Western, Japanese, and Indian outlets.
- Secured showcase slots at Summer Game Fest's India Games Showcase, the Horror Game Awards, Convergence, and Playtime Horror.
- Coordinate hand-offs between art, UI, and programming.
Engineering
- Lead engineering in Unity, C#, and HLSL, owning the gameplay code from prototype onward.
- Built the core horror loop: a looping corridor driven by anomaly and stalker systems.
- Built the player's tools, including the FUNTIME-GO camera, whose photos reveal what your eyes can't see.
- Built the interactive set pieces and progression, from the clinic intake form to the checkpoint system.
Press & Momentum
I ran Farsight's marketing and press myself. So far:
- Revealed during Midsummer Night's Scream: A Horror Game Awards Showcase.
- Featured in the India Games Showcase at Summer Game Fest, streamed on The Game Awards channel, as well as Convergence and the Horror Game Awards Halloween Showcase.
- The IGN reveal segment passed 1.1M views, and GameSpot named Farsight among 15 standout games from the showcase.
- Covered in Japan by Famitsu, AUTOMATON, Denfaminicogamer, 4Gamer, and Game Spark.
- Featured by 80 Level, and by Rolling Stone India in RSI Recommends: 10 Indian Indie Games to Watch Out For.
- SlashFilm called out Farsight as a liminal horror game that could be the next Backrooms.
- 15M+ organic views across X, Instagram, and YouTube, including a Korean fan clip that crossed 1.4M.
- Passed 65,000 Steam wishlists.
Studio Background
Studio Noori is a small self-funded indie studio based in India. The team includes developers behind the Fears to Fathom series, the acclaimed PS1-style horror anthology. Farsight is the studio's debut original title, fully self-published with no publisher or external funding.
Coverage
FamitsuAUTOMATONDenfaminicogamer4GamerGame Spark80 LevelRolling Stone IndiaSlashFilmGematsuGameSpot
