Raheel Yawar

Run Sheeda Run

A three-lane endless runner about a boy chasing down the chicken a butcher took from him.

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Title screen: the Run Sheeda Run logo in orange and red with its Urdu lettering, above a butcher standing over a caged hen under a Sastay Chicken Eid Mubarak banner while Sheeda reaches for the cage, with Tap to start and Friends, Shop and Objective buttons
The title screen.
Sheeda sprinting down a Lahore street between parked cars and a CNG station, plates spinning around him, with a score of 2031, a three-times multiplier and 116 coins in the corner
Gameplay: down the street, dodging traffic.
A narrow bazaar alley strung with star bunting, a line of coins along the left, the magnet power-up icon counting down at the side, and Sheeda in a Sheeda 10 shirt at a score of 3236 on an eight-times multiplier
Gameplay: the magnet running, on an eight-times multiplier.
Sheeda running a bunting-strung street towards a row of low barriers, a curve of coins ahead and a red-glowing dish to the right marking a hazard, with a score of 1562 and 92 coins
Gameplay: barriers to clear and a hazard to swerve.

Run Sheeda Run © we.R.play.

Run Sheeda Run is a 3D endless runner that puts you in the shoes of a Lahori kid named Sheeda as he tries to free his pet hen from the clutches of the evil Qassai (butcher). Run Sheeda Run is a title by weRplay. It showcases the old streets of Lahore, also known as the walled city. The game packs a lot of cultural elements that you would see in a "desi" culture. It has a persistent map modeled after the many historical locations of the city. It is the first high-quality indie project of its kind that chose South Asia as its primary target market. The game packs juicy mechanics and power-ups with casual humor targeted at all kinds of audiences.

I led the project and the engineering. The game was developed using the Unity Engine with C# as the programming language. It was released on iOS and Android.

It was covered by Polygon and by DAWN. Ten years on, I wrote up what it taught me in more detail. Read it here.

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