Qareen is a narrative-focused game with an aesthetic combining glitch art, a unique vision of augmented reality, and Arab cultures. It's still in development, and I've had the great opportunity to work as the game's creative producer, co-writer, and technical artist.

Set in the 23rd century Middle East and North Africa, the physical and virtual have merged into one hypno-surreal reality called The Layer. Spaces in the layer are hypnotically suggestive and have been designed to make revolt literally unthinkable.

You play as Sherene, a historian whose spent her life and career caught up in the illusions of The Layer. When her eyes are opened by BU6A, a charming, ancient AI, she starts on a journey to uncover the lost fragments of a history of people's movements that have long been suppressed by the hypnotic, purely digital ruling class known as Al-Haala.

The world of The Layer is filled with holographic wildlife:

And the world is both familiar and alien.

Please visit my portfolio entries for the Qareen screenplay and my technical art work.