Iranian Game ‘Luxavia’ Shines on World Stage

The game, which is the latest creation of Mehrdad Rezayee, one of the well-known and successful Iranian game developers, has managed to attract the attention of world critics.

Luxavia is a short and episodic adventure game that was released this year for the Google Play, App Store and Cafe Bazaar platforms. In its first international appearance, the game has been nominated for a cash prize at the prestigious DevGAMM 2025 festival, which will be held in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The game is currently in the public voting section of the festival, and interested parties can register their votes to support this Iranian work at this link.

The game has been selected as one of the 13 finalists for the 2026 Indie Game Award Festival among numerous works from around the world. It is the only mobile game among the nominees for this prestigious event and competes with powerful computer games. Mehrdad Rezayee, the director of the Pershaland Studio, had previously made international honors with successful games like ‘Bad Jack’ and ‘Fake Emperors’. Among his previous achievements is winning the award for the best mobile and tablet game at the 2024 Game Connection event in the US.

In a relevant development in 2024, Iranian specialists at a knowledge-based company had also succeeded in designing and producing 2D and 3D adventure graphic games by using Unity and Blockchain technologies.

2D and 3D graphic games produced in the knowledge-based JAPCO company are mainly designed with the theme of entertainment and education and have the essence of adventure and competition.

Game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine can accurately implement the laws of physics in a video game.

“The game industry in Iran is a growing and promising industry. This industry has countless fans in Iran, and at present 64% of the Iranian population are members of the video game community. Considering that this group is mostly under 35 years of age, there is a lot of potential for the growth of this industry, specially for young people,” said Nasser Mahmoudi, the managing-director of the knowledge-based company.

“Among the other applications of gamification is its use in e-learning, e-exam and competition among the learners, which is very useful in the field of education,” he added.

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