Battle Stars is a homegrown battle royale developed by talented co-founders — Christelle D’Cruz, Navneet Waraic, and Sanket Nadhani. Its intense firefights, fast-paced gameplay, and striking visuals have the community buzzing with excitement. Join us for an interview this Independence Day with Christelle D'Cruz, and delve into the story behind this captivating game.

Christelle: Battle Stars was built from seeing our players play a mode within our earlier game Silly Royale called Silly Wars. They played it endlessly and asked for more, so we built a whole new game around it with participation from TechnoGamerz, one of India’s biggest YouTubers. Suffice to say, our players and content creators are our biggest inspiration.

Christelle: At its core, Battle Stars features playable heroes with unique weapons and exciting playstyles. It's in this environment that we met our most interesting challenge: putting Techno Gamerz — a popular Indian YouTuber in-game. We worked with Techno Gamerz carefully, creating many iterations of his avatars until his community felt there was an authentic representation of him in the game.

Christelle: Perhaps the biggest feature is real-life events that bring local content creators and the community to play together. We capped off the first season of Battle Stars with an in-person event featuring Techno Gamerz and have more in the works. Such events deepen the player experience by letting users play with their favorite creators — a concept we’re humbled to pioneer for our players.

Christelle: We’re now building on what made the first season of Battle Stars so special — local relevance. While we launched with a Mumbai map and local heroes, our next step is to release a map four times the size of that with inspiration from the National Capital Region (NCR) complete with more seasonal content, localized experiences, and a larger esports focus with a North Indian flavor.