Journal

When it rains it pours — as Pune has reminded us these last three days. That's how the last few months at Super have felt too: everything dragged and delayed, and now, finally, some rain.

Some blessings arrive just like the monsoon we're waiting on right now — late, loud, and hopefully worth the wait.

On May 1, Indus went live across the EU and the US. Five years of work — finally out in the world. The early signals are mixed: encouraging in some regions, real issues in others.

Today is April Fools' Day. Maybe the right day for entrepreneurs to tell the truth. Because everyone who tries to build something that doesn't yet exist is a fool first.

I've been unwell this past week and largely bedridden — something I haven't experienced in a long time. It gave me unexpected space to reflect.

Happy New Year. 2025 was a year of uncertainty — and we survived it. Not by waiting for certainty, but by building through it. We kept shipping. We stayed in the fight.

After a lot of introspection, we've named this phase for what it must be: Unshackling SuperGaming.

Back from Brazil. Meeting players and our partners in person was invaluable — a market with such high gaming literacy that players instantly recognized the nuances we'd built in, and gave us the room to iterate that we don't always get.

Sometimes decades happen in moments, and sometimes moments feel like decades. Today feels like both.

All good things happen in June. I'm happy — and relieved — to let everyone know that we've closed our next round of funding.

No April Fools jokes today. Instead, an honest retrospect.

Last week I was at GDC — I've been to every one since 2011. This was comfortably the emptiest expo floor I've ever seen; more sales tools than actual games. That tells you the crossroads our industry is at.

Welcome back to 2025 — it's going to be our toughest year, and also the largest opportunity we've ever had.

Thanksgiving took over 300 years to become a holiday — largely because one woman championed it, relentlessly, year after year, until a president finally made it official. The best ideas, even the obvious ones, don't spread themselves. They need someone who sees their deeper purpose and won't give up.

I'm writing this from a room in Helsinki — the cold ocean on one side, the Supercell office on the other.

A solid weekend. This week, I want all of us to remember one thing, and one thing alone:

Our official launch day was better — fewer glitches, smoother running. We hit real milestones, and got a real awakening about how much better we need to be.

Today, we are launching Indus — a day earlier than planned. Its significance lies in this pivotal moment: today, we launched. This is the culmination of countless sacrifices, and an emotional rollercoaster of highs and lows for everyone involved.

30 Days. That's how many we have left to Launch.

This weekend was a major milestone — the release of our Open Beta. This moment has been four years in the making, and it marks just the start of the Indus journey.

I turned 46 last week — thank you for all the wishes, they made my day.

This weekend I met players in Raipur and Lucknow — some drove over 200 km for a two-hour meetup. The love for the game is there. So is the honest feedback: we're not yet living up to their expectations.

Our best GDC yet — because everyone was talking about Indus. But it's going to take more than the excitement around us to reach the next level.

This week is off to a tough start — over the weekend we lost a teammate's mother to a long illness. My prayers are with their family.

Today is the 21st of September — probably the most important day in my calendar growing up. It's my parents' birthday, and the day, in 2005, that we bought the Charlie's House office.

Happy Onam. The legend of King MahaBali is really a lesson in humility, taught in three steps.

I have some tough news to share today. We've decided to part ways with some of our team as part of an overall reorganization, to focus on the games we currently have in production. I want to thank each of them for all they gave to SuperGaming, and wish them the very best.

I am the bearer of the worst kind of news today — the kind that leaves you punched in the gut and questioning almost everything you do. We lost one of the stars of our team to a road accident this afternoon.

Four GDCs, and six years since we first met Bandai Namco.

Today marks four years since we founded SuperGaming.

Proud to see our game, Indus, on New York's Times Square as part of the Independence Day celebrations.

A birthday letter to my son, a year after the one I wrote for his seventh.

A letter to my son on his seventh birthday.

A reminder to myself, borrowed from James Beshara from my YC batch (W2012).

Here is my experience in teaching Kids how to Code.

(posting on behalf of my brother — Mathew aka Siby)

My graduation speech to the COEP Class of 2001.

Written the day we resigned from Cognizant, our first job, to start something of our own.

Five years after walking out of COEP's gates, back to speak to the graduating class.

Written for the batch that marked my thousandth student in seven years of teaching.

A balanced equation, a clean house, a marketing campaign and a mainframe — four prayers for one wedding.

Paul Graham wrote our Demo Day script on a whiteboard. The whiteboard, the script, the deck and the video.

A year to the day after we moved into the SuperGaming office: why we named Christelle a co-founder.

Four months after the term sheet: thanking everyone who got SuperGaming's Series A over the line, and recommitting.

Opening the Indus studio in Charlie's House: why the house carries our dog's name, and why the next generation of games is built where it all started.

A birthday letter to Sia, our lead investor at Skycatcher — and a promise.

The notes I wrote to the team when we lost Chella — the week it happened, a year later, and on his birthday.

Outside Indus: a landslide, a Jimny, a Thar, and where the road ends — Indus begins.

A short thank-you to our investors at Visceral Capital.

My answers for Google Play when Indus won Best of 2024: Made in India.

My prepared answers for the CNBC × Skycatcher panel: the Online Gaming Bill, building BRX on $15M instead of $100M, the shooter augmentation layer, and cricket.

A note to Tim Cook after his farewell letter — on what the Apple developer platform meant to three guys from Pune.

Twenty years of Charlie's House. Charlie was our Labrador — and a founder. Be the person your dog thinks you are.

A wedding toast for Pranjal and Mechele, written as patch notes — two years to the day after we launched Indus, and twenty years after my first best man's toast.