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Salah Shehada

Unity Team Lead , Game & XR Developer

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Unity Team Lead and game & XR developer. I lead the development team at TWW Studios on Rising Together: Nayyar & Riab, a 2D co-op action-adventure coming to Steam, and I have shipped Unity projects to PC, WebGL, mobile and Meta Quest.

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Highlights

Rising Together: Nayyar & Riab

Rising Together: Nayyar & Riab

Team Lead · Coming soon on Steam

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Istanbul Open Day 2025

Istanbul Open Day 2025

Istanbul · Game Dev Showcase

Pocket Gamer Connects 2025

Pocket Gamer Connects 2025

Aqaba, Jordan

Pocket Gamer Connects 2025

Pocket Gamer Connects 2025

Aqaba, Jordan

GSG Game Jam 2025

GSG Game Jam 2025

🥈 2nd Place + Best UI/UX

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GSG Game Jam 2025

GSG Game Jam 2025

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My work

Projects

A commercial co-op game coming to Steam, VR training for a university, and award-winning game jam projects.

Rising Together: Nayyar & Riab cover art

A 2D co-op action-adventure coming to Steam. I lead the development team at TWW Studios: architecture, core systems, sprint planning and code review.

Wishlist on Steam
Commercial Coming soon on Steam

Rising Together: Nayyar & Riab

Team Lead
VR Lab Experiments Simulation cover art

Full-scale VR biology lab built solo for An-Najah National University on Meta Quest 2 & 3, covering six real university experiments end to end.

VR / XR

VR Lab Experiments Simulation

Solo XR Developer
Arena Guardians cover art

Auto-battler where you drag units onto a grid, merge them for power upgrades, and gamble gold on the RISK button. Brackeys Game Jam 2025.2.

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Game Jam

Arena Guardians

Lead Programmer
Cards and Sacrifices cover art

A top-down 2D adventure deck-builder built in 36 hours. Awarded 2nd Place Overall + Best UI/UX & Player Experience.

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Game Jam 🥈 2nd Place + Best UI/UX

Cards and Sacrifices

Lead Developer
Zengo & Rengo cover art

Fast-paced 2D cooperative puzzle platformer for Game Zanga 13. Top 10 out of 170+ games at the largest Arabic game jam.

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Game Jam 🏅 Top 10 of 170+

Zengo & Rengo

Gameplay Programmer
The Seven Deadly Sins: Encore cover art

A single-player card game set in a haunted theater. Build combos, plan your cards a few turns ahead, and satisfy seven demanding desires to clear each stage.

Play in Browser
Collaboration

The Seven Deadly Sins: Encore

Programmer

Career

Experience

From game jams and VR training to leading a team on a game coming to Steam.

  1. Team Lead, Unity Developer

    TWW Studios Remote

    Now Sep 2025 – Present

    • Lead the development team on Rising Together: Nayyar & Riab, a 2D co-op action-adventure (online co-op & split-screen) coming to Steam; own the technical architecture, core systems and coding standards.
    • Plan sprints, assign tasks to programmers and review their code to keep quality and milestones on track.
    • Coordinate a cross-disciplinary team of programmers, artists, animators and sound designers using Unity Version Control (Plastic SCM) and Miro.
    • Architected the core C# gameplay systems: player controller, enemy AI, game-state flow and Animator state machines.
    • Profile and optimize builds with the Unity Profiler, reducing SetPass calls and draw calls.
    Rising Together: Nayyar & Riab

  2. Unity XR Developer

    Intertech On-site

    Aug 2025 – Jun 2026

    • Built VR training simulations for Meta Quest 2 & 3, including a solo-developed VR biology lab for An-Najah National University (6 experiments incl. DNA extraction & PCR) and civil-engineering sites.
    • Delivered complete VR scenes end to end, from interaction design to the final build, optimizing lighting and draw calls to meet Quest performance targets.
    • Developed XR interaction systems with XR Interaction Toolkit and Hurricane VR: hand presence, physics-based tools, UI interaction and haptics.
    • Designed step-based procedure logic, events and animations that guide trainees with live feedback.
    VR Lab Experiments Simulation

  3. Game Developer

    Gaza Sky Geeks Internship · Remote

    Oct 2024 – May 2025

    • Built 2D and 3D Unity prototypes in C# (physics, animation, UI) and improved performance with object pooling and LOD.
    Internship certificate

Recognition

Awards & Education

GSG Game Jam 2025 · 36 hours Jun 2025

2nd Place Overall + Best UI/UX & Player Experience

Lead Developer on Cards and Sacrifices; built all gameplay, UI and VFX.

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Game Zanga 13 · 72 hours Jul 2025

Top 10 of 170+ games

4th in Theme, 9th in Creativity and the most-rated entry at the largest Arabic game jam (650+ participants).

Zengo & Rengo View results

TAP Careers

Community Ambassador

Speaker on networking and career growth for regional audiences.

Get to know me

About Me

I am a Unity developer from Nablus, Palestine, and I lead the development team at TWW Studios on Rising Together: Nayyar & Riab, a 2D co-op action-adventure coming to Steam. I own the technical architecture and coding standards, plan sprints, review the programmers' code, and keep programmers, artists, animators and sound designers moving in the same direction. From August 2025 to June 2026 I was a Unity XR Developer at Intertech, building VR training simulations for Meta Quest 2 & 3, including a full VR biology lab I developed solo for An-Najah National University. Before that I built 2D and 3D prototypes during my game development internship at Gaza Sky Geeks. My game jam work has won awards too, including 2nd Place Overall at the GSG Game Jam and a Top 10 finish at Game Zanga 13. What I care about most is clean gameplay architecture, XR interaction and performance, and turning a team's ideas into something that feels great to play.

Role

Unity Team Lead | Game & XR Developer

Location

Nablus, Palestine

Experience

2+ Years of Experience

Education

B.Sc. Computer Engineering, An-Najah National University · GPA 3.33/4

Community

TAP Careers Community Ambassador, speaking on networking and career growth

What I work with

Tools & Skills

Leadership

Team Leadership
Sprint Planning
Task Assignment
Code Review
Agile Workflow
Team Coordination

Unity & C#

Unity 2D/3D
C#
Gameplay Architecture
Animator
Tilemaps
Localization
WebGL Builds

XR & VR

Meta Quest 2 & 3
XR Interaction Toolkit
Hurricane VR
VR Interaction Design

Performance

Unity Profiler
SetPass & Draw Calls
Object Pooling
LOD

Tools & Languages

Plastic SCM
Git
GitHub
Miro
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python

Contact me

Let's talk.

Phone

Location

Nablus, Palestine

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