r/PakGameDev

Go play the Pakistan Game Jam submissions, give feedback and rate to select a winner.

The theme was Dinosaurs, there were 12 submissions and its an interesting mix. Genuinely so happy to see it.

When giving feedback please try to make it detailed and constructive. Tell them how the game can be improved in your opinion. How much you played, how far did you get in the game, what did you like and where were the friction coming from etc.

Hey, I am Ibrahim. I have been developing games since 2017 using Unity and Godot (started during a little in school then left then again during my bachelor's); however, I never completed any serious games of mine because doing art for the games would demotivate me every time so it's a list full of incomplete prototypes.

Fast-forward, I work as a Unity Developer it's been 3-4 years I guess. It was all good, still okay, but the things changed for good when LLMs became mainstream for coding; now instead of solving problems on my own and feeling triumphant, all I do is just prompt and test. I used to find meaning in programming (because I couldn't complete any game), and I was fairly good at it - dealing with low-level stuff, like making and using native libraries, and programming sensors etc. I know C#, GDScript, Python, a little Flutter, somewhat C/C++, Javascript, and a little Rust too.

But ever since I have been using LLMs on my job it's been very boring for me. So, it motivated me to get better at game design, and even art again.

Here's my little attempt at game design: this game is based on Semantic Networks: a network of world relations in our mind (at least my Linguistics degree came to use for once lol)

You can try it here: https://www.crazygames.com/game/wordference

Soon it will be on the Playstore too.

I have been analyzing and designing puzzle games and I will share what I found soon!

Games from Pakistan event is on the front page of Steam just like promised.

This event has been a small dream come true. The goal was never to just sel games but to show the rest of you that there are Pakistanis working on their dreams and making games.

If they can do it, so can you. Nothing is impossible, go work on your dreams, make things happen, create things and put Pakistan on the map.

Happy Independence day everyone 🫡🇵🇰

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who played the Too Many Balls demo! ❤️

We’ve now reached 3,035 unique players, with a 31-minute median playtime, which honestly means a lot to our small team.

Thank you for playing, wishlisting, giving feedback, and supporting the game! 🏀🎾🏓⛳

It really motivates us to keep going! ❤️

Hello people, hopefully you guys are doing awesome. I don’t know exactly what I wanna tell, so I guess I’ll go with the flow.

I’ve been a gamer almost all my life and of course, like most of you, wanted to make a game, but life takes its own turns, so that dream loses to other stuff. Well, in my case it was never fully lost, because I ended up doing engineering, became a software engineer, and ended up working in Silicon Valley.

Anyway, I never left gaming, but a few months ago I built my first ever PC, because I’ve always gamed on console, even in Pakistan, and I didn’t really enjoy gaming on PC since I’m so used to playing on console. So, to make use of my PC, I tried Unreal Engine, and to say the least, I’ve been enjoying it like anything. I’m an engineer, so this stuff isn’t alien to me, but I guess only new and to help me climb this mountain, Claude has been a gem, since I can ask it a question and it would answer like anything and save me hundreds or thousands of documentation reads.

So, long story short, I’ve been working on a farming game inspired by the Punjab/Sindh atmosphere. The loop is very simple: you grow, harvest, sell, buy more land, and repeat. I don’t work on the game full time, but rather a couple of hours a day after my job. I enjoy doing it, but making a game is a long, long process, probably like 5 years, especially for someone like me.

So I wouldn’t even consider this to be a game, but prolly a pre alpha, with no clue if it will ever reach the finish line. But I have the basic farming loop working, and I wanna share 2 snippets of before and after of my 3 months of development. I believe this kind of fidelity won’t be sustainable, but I think it’s worth sharing what one can achieve with a little consistency and a realistic goal.

Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences with game development. K bye

My name is Yahya and I'm a 16 year old self learning game dev,for a while I have been working on a 2d action platformer,progress is going very good and I have finally made the first official level for this demo. I would love feedback on it and I would appreciate if you guys could support the video on YouTube and the channel as well! Thanks for reading

Link to the video on yt:-

https://youtu.be/oJ1qawK3LvA?si=FEf2L2RCirZrLxsS