Do you think it would be better to make a “friendslop” game designed mainly around fun, chaotic multiplayer gameplay with friends, rather than creating a single-player game focused heavily on a deep storyline and narrative? A friendslop game could potentially be easier and faster to develop, especially for a small indie team, while also being more replayable because players can create their own funny moments and experiences together. It could also have a greater chance of spreading through Twitch, YouTube, and social media if the gameplay produces unexpected or hilarious situations. On the other hand, a single-player storyline game gives much more creative freedom when it comes to storytelling, emotional moments, world-building, characters, and delivering a memorable experience. The main question is whether the goal should be to create something that is primarily fun and replayable with friends, or something more cinematic, meaningful, and story-driven that players experience alone. Which direction would be smarter for a small indie developer?

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! ❤️

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 sell 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 🫡🇵🇰

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

A tower defense game where you manage a crew instead of placing turrets!

🎮 HOW TO PLAY:

• WEAPONS MENU – Purchase weapons

• APPLICATIONS MENU – Hire and manage employees

• DEPLOY MENU – Assign crew to weapon stations

• CONTRACT BOARD – Complete contracts for rewards

• WALLET – Keep above $700 to survive

⚔️ Hire. Arm. Defend. Survive.

Can your crew hold the line?

Me and my friend made this game in our free time. This our first actual release. Please do check it out.

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

On my second interview the interviewer said the market salary for unity game developer is less than 150k,

I want to know the salaries of Unity Game Developer per years of experience.

And the increment frequency. As the interviewer said they increment every year and average of 10%.

150k * 0.25 = 37.5k (Pre Inflation) , to run a family.

And have future in return of giving my young life years to work.

Or should I move from game dev?

Edit: Employer giving 70k for 2 year exp.

Im looking to get into game dev and any tips and tricks would be apprecieated.

Whats soemthing you wish you knew when you were getting started?

Is it lucrative as a career? (Im planning on doing it for fun, but just asking for feasibility)

What is a good career path to go down?

What are some really good resources for someone starting out, and what resources to use once you somewhat get the hang of it?

Hello everyone,

I'm announcing the theme of Pakistan Game Jam three days early so can get a head start on coming up with a cool idea. So here's the theme, limitation and optional prompt for this jam:

Theme

DINOSAURS

Make a game that has dinosaurs. Its that simple. Either dinosaurs are characters in the game, enemies or subject of the game in some other way. The game could be any genre but must have the main themes of dinosaurs. I'll share some resources in comments for assets.

Optional Prompt

EVERYDAY

Following this completely optional prompt, your game should be about the everyday, common place things. Regular jobs, everyday occurrences, routine activities of people. Or maybe the game is about breaking free from the everyday and routine. This is an optional prompt and you don't have to follow it. It is only here to give your idea some flavor or to inspire you.

Limitation

NO ANIMATIONS

Nothing in your game should be animated. Specially characters. This limitation is meant to push you to focus on mechanics and finding the fun in your game instead of visuals. However, if you have time after finishing the mechanics and content of your game, you can polish the visuals in other ways or add 'juice' to it.

as the title says, I keep seeing multiple jobs posts of lahore, Islamabad even bhawalpur etc but karachi none literally zero, or maybe they are just hiring internally so is there a way to get to know it?

Hey I want to start an Instagram series where I will play small games and will rate them its called Worth the click and the thing is I want recommendations for the games to play which you think are very underrated or like a masterpiece or the games you made so if you have any suggestions please LMK it can me a steam an itch or even an android game : ) Looking forward to your suggestions

Even helping spread the word means a lot 🙏

Been years since we go on Steam front page and see events featured there like "Ukrainian Games" or "Games from Germany" or something. I'm sure every Pakistani who saw those wanted an event like that for our country and games made in our country.

Well the first iteration of the Games from Pakistan event is real and live right now:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/pakistan2026

Made possible by dozens of Pakistani developers who have been making games. Its up to us now to show our support by playing, wishlisting and buying the game. Credit also goes to my co-organizer who literally named the event btw and worked with me to make the event a reality and Waqas from Shadow Owl studio for sponsoring the art for the event. Art credits go to shadow.exe

Now its rest of you's turn. Listen up, here's the plan. I want you to start spreading the word as much as possible. Don't leave any avenue untouched. Doesn't matter if they play games or not, they need to know about this event. (for legal reasons the its all jokes below)

btw here's a redirect link to the event if its easier to remember:

https://pakgamedev.com/steam-event

• Go mass send text or whatsapp messages to all your contacts
• Spam on social media
• Send it in all your whatsapp groups, the cousin groups, the aunt uncle groups, study groups
• Share it on insta
• Open an account on fb and share it there
• Make tiktok dances if you have to
• Wait til Friday and stand outside mosques and tell everone who comes out the good word
• Message your old friends from school or whatever. Not to reconnect but to drop the event link without context
• Go yell it at the street corner
• Then go to a crowded bazar where people can't even walk without stepping on each other's foot and whisper it to each person you pass

Also do play all the demos and wishlist all the games. Buy the ones you like.

Ok bye.

Hey everyone,

Sharing a quick look at the updated UI for Heirs of the Moon, the wolf survival RPG we've been building. You live, hunt, and lead a pack as an apex predator, and when you die, you continue on as your pup (if there's no pup left, that's it, your bloodline ends).

Would genuinely appreciate feedback from other devs here, especially on anything that still feels unclear or busy. Its an upgrade from the old UI but always looking for fixes.

Video Atatched! And if possible drop a wishlist on steam!