Dhaka Racing

The founders, chief designers and programmers of the game, Ashik Noon and Adnan Karim were only final-year students of computer science and engineering at the North South University during the development of the game. Noon and Karim took 500 pictures of various streets in Dhaka to make the game realistic.^[1] The graphics modeling was done through Autodesk 3ds Max while the game's logic, artificial intelligence, vehicle movement and behavior was programmed using Visual C++.^[4][5]

Initially, a demo version of the game was released in March 2002. A few months later on 12 January 2003, the full version came into the market. The game received the Best Product award at BCS Computer Fair 2003. To protect it from piracy, the developers later only allowed the game to be downloaded online through payments.^[2]

Dhaka Race received widespread acclaim and pioneered the 3D video game industry of Bangladesh. Then-President of Bangladesh Dr. A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury gave a special award to Noon and Karim for developing the first 3D game in the country.^[1][2] ICT Minister of Bangladesh Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan also appreciated the game.

Later, eSophers developed multiple 3D games such as Bangladesh 71 (a first-person shooter game set during the Bangladesh Liberation War), JPGL Boat Racing Game (a multiplayer boat racing game for British American Tobacco), Kolkata Racing (a racing game for Sonolite Multimedia India) for local and international markets.