It would be easy to glance at Pathika during an App Store browsing session and dismiss it as yet another iOS puzzle game.
Yet behind its minimalistic look and feel lies a game with a story to tell. Not an in-game narrative, but a yarn about Turkish game development that would make any Western indie dev shake their head in wonderment.
No government support for start-up businesses, a low number of skilled programmers, and no entry-level tertiary studies for game development mean Turkish developers have a much harder task than their Western counterparts to bring their products to market.
