In the following interview with Insights Success, Sahil Goyal, Managing Partner of Westvindh, highlights the core philosophy embedded in the company, its popular title ‘Pilli Go’ and how the company has managed to establish unyielding roots in the gaming industry.
Following are the excerpts from the interview.
Please brief our audience about your company, its values, vision, and mission.
At Westvindh, our games are focused on the mass market. We make adorable graphics that appeal to kids. Although, the game graphics are primarily targeted to kids, but also help adults in relaxation after a day of hard work. We tend to create a game design through which a player can relax their mind and get back to normal work after a few rounds of games.
What are the prominent services, products, or solutions that the company offers?
Westvindh is a mobile first game company, focusing on games that people can play in leisure time for short durations. Pilli Go is our first title and we expect to launch two more titles in this financial year. Apart from games, our company also develops IT solutions for enterprises. Having a core expertise in gaming, our team easily understands gamification, app development, networking and, most importantly, user experience.
Brief us about the work culture in your organization. How do you help employees in staying creative and on their toes?
Best creativity never comes from an individual person, but only from team members. At Westvindh, we build office design systems and every policy in a manner that enhances creativity of our teams. For instance, we have a 100% open culture, where everything is transparent between all the team members. Now, this leads to a work culture that is not indulged in hierarchical orders, but a discussion that creates creative products.
Kindly list the most popular game(s) developed by your company and the reasons for the popularity.
Pilli Go is our most popular title. Why is it so popular? Simply because it is beautiful, addictive, and satisfactory. The game is built for laid back players, who do not want to pressurize their brain and opt to spend their leisure time via relaxing. To be honest, the people are in love with Pilli – the cat and the main character in the game. We have observed that some people, plainly, can look at our cat for a long period without taking any actions on the mobile screen.
Since the COVID-19 crisis, there have been reports about how people are turning to games to keep themselves occupied. What are your views on it, and how do you plan to keep the trend going?
COVID-19 surely did provide a boost to the gaming market, since it is a good and safe source of entertainment for all people sitting in their homes. These are strange and difficult times for everyone, and we are incredibly happy that our game could entertain people at this time. However, gaining extra profits does not mean we would like people to spend time only on mobile screens out of boredom.
For future, we hope that COVID-19 goes away and people get back to their routine life. Our only wish is that we entertain them to relax their brain during small breaks. Always, there should be a work-life balance, as this is in the best interest of both gaming industry and the players.
In order to keep the profits following in, we are continuously bringing in new talent to develop more entertaining games for our players. Already, we have started our research on online games that requires very low latency speeds.
Where do you envision your organization to be in the long run, and what are your future goals?
5G will be a reality soon. This will change the way multiplayer games are played today. At Westvindh, we want to create a team that can utilize this opportunity and give the next big hit game title to the world. Additionally, India has no game that has taken over the world’s gaming industry. We want to create a title that does bring this achievement to India’s and Westvindh’s portfolio.
ABOUT THE LEADER
Mr. Sahil Goyal is the sole founder of the company and has been passionate about games since childhood. His journey as a learner started nine y ears ago, where he discovered a few bugs in a game while playing with friends. These bugs intrigued him to determine the cause of the bugs.
Taking this as a spark for his career, he decided to go full time in gaming industry. By stepping in the gaming realm, he turned his childhood passion in to a profession. Right now, his organization has been able to build a team and a game title that highlights its creative competencies.
Quote: Utilizing 5G to create next big game for this world
