Kathmandu, Sept. 4 -- In May, Utsav Dev Manandhar, a computer engineering student, currently studying at Southern Illinois University in the US, started a project. He decided to create a game that would pay homage to Kathmandu's culture and heritage. And as Yenya:, more commonly known as Indra Jatra, is one of the grandest festivals of the Newa people of Kathmandu and was just around the corner, he decided to use two of the festival's most iconic motifs-Majipa Lakhey and Pulukisi-to make an endless runner game, similar to the popular Temple Run.

Manandhar set himself a four-month deadline and during that time worked around 600 hours researching and learning how to use different software in order to complete the game on time. He regularly...