Liyla and the Shadows of War

Rasheed Abueideh

About this game

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GDC 2017 talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVSY4My1JIY&t=1s

When you live in war zone and death is hunting everyone, things will look different and choices become harder. Face your fate in an unjust war to survive with your family from the shadows of war.

Time is running against you, your family is in danger and there is nowhere to hide or to do but to get them out of home through a hero journey to a safer place.

Shooting and bombing everywhere and it will hunt you unless you make fast decisions as you progress through different events. These events are real and they will make you choose the hard way. Live or die!​

Ratings and reviews

It's a very heartwarming and educational game if you want just a little insight on what the everyday Palestian people have been going through within the past decade. While I gave it 5 stars, I do have to touch on the functionality. The controls are very simple. It's a 2D space, so you can go up, down, left, right. Maybe it was just my phone, but I found the game to be a little laggy. However, I didn't deduct a star bc overall, it was a short game. I can look past it.

It was short, sad and emotional. I was just looking to play something like this which would get over quickly so I don't care about 20 min length. Even though it was not exactly a game and was story-driven, I enjoyed it a lot more than in actual game. The music score in the background plus additional sounds actually scared me. It delivered a good message despite how sad the ending was.

I found the game to be incredibly impactful. The minimal controls truly felt representative of the little resources one would have in this situation. Creating a UI that feels difficult to navigate despite what we feel we "should be able to do/wish we could do" is frustrating. The emotion displayed in the lower-rating reviews proves it to be so. In this situation, You DO wish you could do more, move faster, FEEL stronger. Live longer, all while hungry and sleep deprived. Bravo dev, Incredible job