When I received the invitation to attend a LAN party hosted by the Mumbai chapter of AoE India-an underground gaming community dedicated to a 19-year-old strategy video game-this wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. It’s all a little Silicon-Valley-meets-football-hooligans, the boisterous atmosphere belying the sheer geekery of the conversation. When the game finally ends, everyone troops out to the balcony to thump the winner on the back and immediately fall into a jargon-heavy discussion about tactics. The other people in the room have no such problems though, and for the next 25 minutes the energy never lets up. Tiny pixelated characters scuttle across the screen, constructing farms, hunting boars and occasionally attacking each other, though the action moves far too fast for me to follow.
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