Team Gramps is an international, remote indie collective making games with empathy for players of all stripes! It was founded in the Game Developer Program by Code Coven and Facebook Gaming. We are proud Unity for Humanity 2023 and Wings ELEVATE 2023 grantees.Our games include the largely solo programmed A Week at Belisamas Lake, a relaxing fishing game about cleaning the local waters, intergenerational relationships and the climate crisis of the past, set in a hopeful solar punk future.For this game, I used Unity and C# to program key features such as a highly modded, yarn spinner based dialogue system, game flow and progress management, and fishing level gameplay – with hostile hazards of varying behaviors, an underwater feeling fishing "hook" with a claw, and accelerometer based fishing controls among other control schemes.I am also co-programming the first in our upcoming series of shorter cycle games. My tasks so far include gameplay, dialogue system and UI programming, and all technical art. Please look forward to our upcoming release!Additionally, I am the producer/project manager for our team. My duties include roadmapping, moderating pace, operating as sprint master, managing operational documentation, tracking budget and supporting team members to ensure a positively productive work environment.As a co-founder, admin work related to pitching, legalities and communications is a given.

Designing and programming the UI/UX for a socially conscious adventure game.

I designed the UI/UX for an exciting and learner friendly children's game for a stellar brand partner.

Cabernet is a narrative RPG set in 19th century Eastern European, about a young vampire’s struggle with her morality and the supernatural world she has been pulled into.I developed side quests using Unity and Bolt – supporting my Bolt macros by utilizing and dissecting the C# code behind existing systems, and writing Yarn Spinner scripts.

Team Paper Cuts created Foretold, a paper-esque style metroidvania about taking rightful control over self identity, set in a story book universe.I was the main level designer for the current prototype as well as partial designer for environment altering mechanics and puzzles.Additionally, I programmed key features like player movement, health and combat systems in Unreal Engine.

I designed and programmed multiple games, particularly Ocean Adventures, a 3D arcade-style mobile game about the effects of over-fishing and sea pollution on marine life.I actively partook in brainstorming sessions and wrote a 30 page GDD, which heavily functioned as a guiding beacon for the team.Later, I used Unity and C# to program up to three foundational levels. This included technical art using self-developed custom shaders, terrain building and post processing. Meanwhile, gameplay oriented features included the procedurally animated fish movement, a modular spawner with object pooling, and a dynamic, visually non-invasive, joystick control.Additionally, I delved into other areas such as 2D art and communications across different projects.

I designed and programmed various game prototypes, including a 2D arcade-style space shooter, a 3D endless runner with a self-written curve shader, a 3D QR-code based AR retail project and an endless runner controlled by face tracking, all using Unity and C#, Vuforia and Spark AR.

I designed pages, using Adobe Illustrator, for both, the first and the second issue of the student led publication, Gazette.Following a promotion, I led the design team for the 90 page third issue of the student led creative magazine, Kashf. Our design tool of choice was, yet again, Adobe Illustrator. My duties included allocating work and deadlines to the six designers and providing detailed feedback through multiple back and forths to ensure high quality. Additionally, most of the magazine was personally designed by me.

This was a lecture series initiative under the Dhanani School of Science and Engineering deparment. We invited incredible individuals from industry and academia to speak on insightful topics. My duties included event coverage photography, primarily, as well as online, telephonic and e-mail oriented promotions.

I developed a 3D first person shooter game, using Unity and C#, notably making use of navmesh agents.Additionally, I designed my first bullet-hell game called Rota-turret, a top-down-circular turret ship, which employs rotation to face the correct weapon type at each approaching enemy target.Furthermore, I illustrated and modified 2D game art, using Adobe Photoshop, for other ongoing projects.

• Photographer for event coverage.• Graphic designer for promotional/social media content.• Social media manager.• Delivered photos to clients and managed related database.• Nominated for Best Staff Member award in EXECS’ 16 (an annual Nixor Corporate award ceremony).

• Photographer for event coverage.• Graphic designer for promotional/social media content.• Assisted in the video project, “Karachi is an Amazing City”.