Vilayat

About

Vilayat is an aspiring game design and publishing company, a two-founder startup (Shyam Rangarajan and Hash Ravoori) that uses thematically immersive board games to raise awareness of socioeconomic problems and prompt solution-oriented discussion. Its name is Tamil for 'game or play', chosen to reflect founders raised outside India who straddle Indian and foreign identities. The debut title is Flee Fi Fo From, a queueing strategy game built on an unusual queueing mechanic in which competing clans protect villagers from rampaging giants and comment on the refugee and immigration crisis, with mo…