Nobody Knows for Certain is a fascinating point-and-click game about Soviet children's books published in India during the Cold War.
ends abruptly, with no attempt at a resolution, and yet leaves behind so much to pore over and think about. It’s a gorgeously designed sociological study of Soviet children’s’ books published in India in local languages from the ‘50s to the ‘80s. Distributed almost for free, these books spread Russian culture and thought throughout the Indian subcontinent during the Cold War, leaving a notable impact on the children of India.
Shafiq wraps these books up in a beautiful piece of interactive art that repurposes much of their original artwork. This narrative game is a lending library in the form of a pixel hunt. After a lightly interactive opening, you’ll arrive at a virtual tapestry filled with Russian iconography; here you zoom in and look for lightly animated figures and icons.
There are some slightly more game-forward parts to uncover. There’s one story about a tailless cat who’s mocked and rejected by almost everybody they meet, and you move the cat directly through that one in search of a solution to its problem. Elsewhere the game asks you to click on “five tokens of Indo-Soviet friendship” to move on to the next story.
There was a propaganda aspect to Soviet publishers sending these books to India, but Shafiq shows how there was more to it than that. The books she collects in
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