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alina qureshi
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game programmer · 6 years · helsinki

Alina Qureshi

Game programmer & designer with 6+ years. MA in Game Design. Shipped on Steam & mobile.

I make quirky, emotionally-driven games and genuinely enjoy debugging them (some call it masochism, I call it therapy).

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unity · c# · probably coding rn
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Featured work

Published games

TRASH GOBLIN

Trash Goblin

Wholesome cosy shopkeeping — uncover & clean trinkets, then upcycle them to sell to endless colourful & quirky customers.

C# · Unity · Windows · Mac
C#UnityWindows
Steam ↗
CRAYTA GAMES

CRAYTA Games

Three online multiplayer games built inside the Crayta platform during my time at Spilt Milk Studios, London.

Lua · HTML/CSS · Crayta · Windows · Mac
LuaHTML/CSSCrayta
GIRL DESIGN

Girl Design

Girl Design was created by a team of three women for GCON's She Jams 2025. The theme for this game jam is Start from Zero. Rebuild. Reimagine. Rise. This game is a product of love from game developers between three different nationalities: Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

C# · Unity · Windows · WebGL
C#UnityWindows
itch.io ↗
CUPID CHATROOM

Cupid Chatroom

Cupid's Chatroom is an narrative-driven otome chatsim where players are pulled into a mysterious private server and interact with five potential love interests through messages, voice calls, and multimedia conversations, shaping the story through choices and branching routes.

C# · Unity · Windows · Mac
C#UnityWindows
itch.io ↗

More games

jams, collabs & personal projects — there are a lot more on itch

5:14 First Page

An interactive fiction experience that combines the format of a visual novel with the interactivity of point and click puzzles and in-game chats.

C# · Unity

Interplanetary Battlefield

Physics-based arcade space shooter built in SDL2 using C++.

C++ · SDL2

Katiya Loves You

Explore the digital world together and improve your lifestyle to become the best artist on the trendy social platform Sitaragram. Katiya loves you!

C# · Unity

Potion Cure

Potion Cure is a hidden-object/clicker-style game (HCG) about potion-mixing, drawing on desi (South Asian) roots for its ingredients, recipes, and flavour.

C# · Unity

Mariposa Valley

Mariposa Valley is set in a lush, magical valley world — a project exploring environment design and atmosphere in Unity.

C# · Unity

Side quests

writing, research & experimental work outside the screen

writing

Design journal

Documenting a 24-hour game jam hour by hour — how I scope, debug, and make calls under pressure.

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paper

GACHACON paper

Academic paper presented at GACHACON 2026.

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alt-ctrls

Alternative-controller game

An experimental game built around custom physical input.

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tabletop

Bargainistan: Board game

A tactical bargaining board game.

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About

Hi, I'm a game developer with 6+ years of experience, specialising in Unity and C#. Programmer by trade, everything else for the love of it (writer, narrative designer, producer). I enjoy crafting immersive, interactive experiences and stories that make players feel something.

I've shipped commercially, led teams and projects, and done more game jams than I can count. I'm especially drawn to quirky mechanics and unconventional systems and somehow, I end up making at least one game played through an interface (phones, chatrooms, fake operating systems) every year.

Based in Helsinki. Always up to collaborate on something fun!

engines
Unity · Unreal · Ren'Py

languages
C# · Lua · C++ · Python

also
FMOD · Git · UX · YarnSpinner/Ink

based in
Helsinki, FI

Let's make something weird together.

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alina qureshi — game programmer based in Helsinki, FI