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The Complete Saga is the sequel to Missing: Game for a Cause, which launched last year to widespread acclaim. Since its launch, it's garnered more than 500,000 downloads, and is used as an educational tool in Bengali schools.

While the original Missing took the form of a top-down point and click story, the new game is a 3D role-playing adventure that follows the life of an Indian village girl called Champa.

“We got this amazing response all over the world with the first game,” says Missing director Leena Kejriwal, an artist and activist who has been involved in the fight against trafficking for 15 years. “That success has given us the confidence to address a bigger, wider audience with a bigger, deeper game.”

Kejriwal and her team are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to help fund development. Proceeds from sales of the game will go towards creating training programs and recovery centers for girls who escape, either through their own means, or via police raids.

In the game, Champa is targeted by sex traffickers who want to take her to one of India's fast-growing cities, where demand for sex workers is high. Even if Champa manages to avoid this fate, her sister and best friends are also in danger.

Kejriwal notes that, in real life, Champa would likely fail to escape the traffickers, who target girls in poor neighborhoods, usually tempting them with offers of good jobs in the city. Parents, unaware of the danger, are often acquiescent.

“If they are targeted there is not much they can do about it,” she says. “They are really unaware, and so are the immediate people around them like their families.” In order to make its point, the game is designed to allow players more freedom and agency than in similar real-life situations.

“We are really big on awareness," says Kejriwal. “Our main motto is ‘why wait for a girl to be trafficked to save her?’ The issue is not really addressed in India, where sex and trafficking education is negligible. That's why we want to use art and multimedia to increase awareness among girls and boys.”

The game is not merely a warning against the tactics of traffickers. It's also an attempt to educate boys, and to spark conversations that might reach the men who pay for sex.

अमृतसर। दिल्ली के शराब घोटाला मामले में कोर्ट से बरी होने पर आम आदमी पार्टी के संयोजक अरविंद केजरीवाल अपनी पत्नी के साथ दरबार साहिब में मत्था टेक कर आशीर्वाद लिया। पंजाब के सीएम भगवंत मान और उनकी पत्नी समेत अन्य गणमान्यों ने भी मत्था टेका। अरविंद केजरीवाल ने कहा कि हमने दरबार साहिब में नमतस्तक होकर वाहेगुरु जी का शुक्रिया अदा किया। आम आदमी पार्टी के सभी बड़े-बड़े नेताओं के ऊपर झूठे आरोप लगाए गए थे।…

अमृतसर। दिल्ली के शराब घोटाला मामले में कोर्ट से बरी होने पर आम आदमी पार्टी के संयोजक अरविंद केजरीवाल अपनी पत्नी के साथ दरबार साहिब में मत्था टेक कर आशीर्वाद लिया। पंजाब के सीएम भगवंत मान और उनकी पत्नी समेत अन्य गणमान्यों ने भी मत्था टेका। अरविंद केजरीवाल ने कहा कि हमने दरबार साहिब में नमतस्तक होकर वाहेगुरु जी का शुक्रिया अदा किया। आम आदमी पार्टी के सभी बड़े-बड़े नेताओं के ऊपर झूठे आरोप लगाए गए थे।…