Sadia Bashir

Today I watched "Hindi Medium" I felt like this movie really showed the problem of our education and class system. Here I want to tell my own story as well. I used to study in an Urdu Medium Government School, there were two schools in one building and the other school was English Medium (typically known as Islamabad Model college). I would always envy those English medium kids for their uniforms, their beautifully decorated classes, and how politely their teacher's talks to them in English. In my whole break time, I would sit in the corner and observe the English Medium kids, playing different sports and having lots of swings in their ground and hoping that one day I will also study in English Medium School. On the other hand life at Urdu medium school was sad. One day I went to the English Medium school asked their teacher that I want to study here, she told me that they don't take kids from Urdu medium and shattered my dreams by telling my teachers that I ...

It started from a board game... It was my first semester (Fall 2006) "introduction to programming" project. I had no idea about game design. It was a two player car racing board game, I coded it in C++ so you can imagine there were no graphics at all and the game was all text based. Funny thing is I still managed to create all roads and cars through dotted lines and alphabets but what about the game design? This where I took inspiration from my friend's game who was coding snake and ladders. I thought it would be fun to merge it with my game. The board game wasn't actually on the board, it was coded in C++ So the game was a two player game, the primary objective of the game was to reach the final destination of a road which was numbered from 1 to 100. Every time the dice rolls (which was basically a random number generation function) each player would have to move the car towards that number. Here is the fun part, few numbers would pack a reward for the pl...

Wizard House - WIP by Sadia Bashir on Sketchfab