Mridangam

Mridangam is a role-playing game by Shreyas Sampat, published in 2006 in PUSH magazine. The title is the name of a South Indian drum, which is the primary rhythmic accompaniment to a Carnatic music ensemble.

• "Mridangam: The Calligrapher's Sword in another Medium" (Dec 30, 2002)
  A largely unrelated game idea -- a "Vedic supers game" -- posted to the Forge much earlier.
• Early Edition of Mridangam (Mar 28, 2005)
  Posted on Shreyas' blog.
• Story Games Thread on "Dance-Off!" (Jan 2006)
  A thread on Andy Kitkowski's "Story Games" forum on the subject of a tabletop game which emulates some parts of computer game "dance battles".