Dashain Cup and Tihar Lights in our Nepal cricket game

In Nepal, the year has its own rhythm. Kites fill the sky before Dashain, lamps line the streets at Tihar, and Baisakh brings a fresh start. We want our Nepal cricket game to move with that rhythm, so we're planning festival seasons built around the moments everyone here waits for.

Everything in this post is planned. We're not promising dates yet; we'll announce each event when it's ready.

Why festivals

Cricket in Nepal is already tied to celebration. Matches get louder when people are home for the holidays, and a big win feels like part of the festival. A game made here should feel the same.

Each festival season is planned to bring three things:

• Its own rules, so it plays differently from a normal match.
• Its own look, with the ground dressed for the occasion.
• Rewards to earn, such as kits and other cosmetics. Never anything that makes your team stronger.

Dashain Cup

The first festival event we're planning is the Dashain Cup, a knockout cup for the biggest festival of the year.

Picture tika-red kits, kites drifting over the stands, and a bracket where every match is win or go home. Knockouts suit a festival: short, tense and full of stories you'll still be telling when the holidays end.

Tihar Lights

Tihar Lights is a planned night series under floodlights and diyo lamps, with the ground glowing like a festival street.

Our game already lives at night, with a floodlit ground and the hills behind it. Tihar Lights takes that further: the lamps, the colour, the warmth of the evenings when every house is lit. A series format means it's about consistency across several matches, not one lucky night.

A Baisakh New Year tournament

The third event we're planning is a New Year tournament for Baisakh, to open the Nepali new year. It's a fresh-start event: a clean table, every team level, and the first trophy of the year up for grabs.

The game year should turn with Nepal's festivals, not with a store calendar.

The Nepali sound of a Nepal cricket game

A festival is something you hear as much as see. That's why the sound of NPL Cricket League matters to us, during festival seasons and all year round.

We're planning an original soundtrack built around Nepali instruments:

• Madal, the heartbeat drum of Nepali folk music, driving the menus and the build-up to a big over.
• Sarangi, the bowed strings of the hills, for quiet moments and the tension of a close chase.
• Bansuri, the bamboo flute, floating over sunrise menus and festival seasons.

Alongside them, big stadium anthems for team walk-outs, sixes and the trophy lift. And the crowd will react in Nepali: building as a bowler runs in, erupting for a six, groaning at a dropped catch.

We're not naming any artists. The soundtrack will be original, and we'll only talk about who made it once the music is made and signed.

What comes after

Festival events are part of phase 4 of our roadmap, alongside the league season and leaderboards. After launch, we'd love to add events for more of Nepal's festivals through the whole year. That's an idea, not a promise, but it's the direction we want to go.

The game is in development for iOS and Android. If there's a festival you'd like to see on the ground, tell us at info@lacspace.com.

NPL Cricket League is a game by Lacspace inspired by Nepal's T20 franchise cricket. Team names identify the franchises; crests, kits and players in the game are our own, and players are fictional. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or licensed by the Cricket Association of Nepal, the Nepal Premier League or its franchises.