Rafif Kalantan 🍉 رفيف كلنتن
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Student BAFTA Winner & Arab Game Designer | Cofounder @World_GIGS | @MCV_DEVELOP 30 Under 30 ‘23 | @BAFTA Connect | @NFTSFilmTV Grad | @NEOM Scholar | @EXLSgame
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I’m hoping to see TGA addressing the massive layoffs our industry went through although we had record profits.
I’m also hoping to see TGA addressing the open letter regarding Palestine that over 2.9k game devs have signed.
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Very happy to announce I’ve been selected as one of this year’s 30 Under 30!!! 🥳
I am immensely proud and honored to join the ranks of many wonderful individuals over the years!
Thank you MCV/DEVELOP for this amazing distinction 🙏🏻💖
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Even in the midst of all this destruction and death Palestinians still find time for tenderness and love towards not only each other but other living beings
One of my friends didn’t want to leave his house just to take care of his cats | Gaza
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Thank you again
@MCV_DEVELOP
for selecting me as one of this year’s 30 Under 30 among some wonderful people who I’ve had the pleasure of meeting at IRL yesterday!
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Always happy to represent
@NFTS_Games
in the best way possible! 🙏🏻💖
Big congratulations to student-BAFTA-winning
@NFTSFilmTV
@NFTS_Games
graduate
@_rafifk
for being listed in
@MCV_DEVELOP
's 30 Under 30 list for 2023! Read the full story:
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Sitting in my living room in my pjs shocked and speechless at 4 am 😭
This is an amazing accomplishment! Thank you BAFTA and thank you to everyone who worked on this project! 🙏🏻🥹💖
The winner of the 2023 Yugo BAFTA Student Award for Games is “Eros Xavier’s Love Solutions”, created by Rafif Kalantan from the National Film and Television School in the United Kingdom.
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@studioanisa
Have you seen JKR’s canon schools for the world? Definite proof of how lacking her world building skills are.
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My favorite screenshot is of making Makloubeh in Thirsty Suitors by
@OuterloopGames
🇵🇸❤️
*snap snap* 📸🎨
Share your favourite screenshot of a game you took / fanart you created this year. We wanna see some ✨️ART✨️
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I'm very excited to finally announce that I am now part of the amazing new Saudi indie game studio
@StarvaniaStudio
! 🎉
Can't wait for you to see what we're working on 👀✨
Our horizon is expanding!
Welcome our new Starvanian Rafif!
So happy to have you on board ✨
Ready, Set, Let’s Go Beyond! 🚀
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Very happy to finally announce that my game
@EXLSgame
got shortlisted for 2023 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards!!
Very speechless and mind-blown still!
Thank you to our amazing team for all their hard work! 🙏🏻💖🎉
Wish us luck to make it into the finalists!
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards.
This year 79 student projects in games and immersive were selected out of 754 submissions from 103 schools in 30 countries.
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Hello! I will be at EGX next week for a couple of reasons including chatting about our game
@BahamutTheGame
!
If you’re interested in Middle Eastern and Arabian mythologies and the gaming industry in the region let’s have a chat!
Starvanian
@_rafifk
is attending EGX London next week! 🚀
Join Rafif to discuss
@BahamutTheGame
's unique story, explore indie game narratives, or simply say hi! 👋
See you at
#EGX2023
! 🙌
#indiegame
#indiedev
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- Totk has 1,148 credits listed
- It took around 6 years to make
- It sold 19.5 million copies
- Average playtime 40 to 60 hrs
- 100% playtime 236 hrs
Surely they deserved more than a 2 minutes to accept the award, especially considering it’s being given in two languages? 🤨
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I didn’t know they wrote this but thank you Arab News! 🙏🏻💖
Rafif Kalantan, who was supported by
@NEOM
to attend the
@NFTSFilmTV
, had her work reviewed by a panel of 140
@BAFTA
members
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🧵 Born a year before the Nakba, Jerusalem/Al-Quds-based Sliman Mansour is a renowned artist whose work represents the resilience and steadfastness of the Palestinian people. His work has inspired generations of Palestinian and Arab artists over the decades.
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Today is my mother’s birthday. We had a 50 mins call where 3-5 mins was wishing her a happy birthday etc, the rest was spent talking about Gaza. I think we collectively feel like it is a betrayal to have joy while Palestinians are experiencing literal genocide.
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Very excited to be pitching for the Very Big Indie Pitch with an Arab Studio that’s working towards presenting compelling games with narratives rooted in middle eastern mythology!
If you’re going to PGC London let’s chat!
Our horizon is reaching London this time!🇬🇧
We’re so excited to be part of Pocket Gamer Connect London this year!
As we’re showcasing our game Bahamut in The Very Big Indie Pitch🧜🏼♂️
Our Starvanians Can't wait to meet all the industry profissional there, so let’s grab some chat!
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🧵 Laila Shawa was a Gaza-born Palestinian multidisciplinary visual artist with a formal education in art from Egypt, Italy, and Austria. The artist's vibrant work frequently depicted women in Palestine and the region, as well as the political climate in Palestine.
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With this rate of layoffs I am VERY ready to quit game dev and get a group of people, buy a farm and cottage, and start a petting zoo + small shop with fresh produce and a bakery.
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I bring to you the first concept art I made for my game I’m developing: Eros Xavier’s Love Solutions 💘🎆
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Very excited to be a part of the team organizing this wonderful jam!
We wanted to project hope for the future of Palestine, and so we wanted the theme to revolve around a free Palestine!
Please check out the jam’s page and feel free to ask any questions! 🙏🏻🍉🇵🇸
We are so incredibly excited to announce the 'Towards a Free Palestine' game jam in collaboration with
@3arabicGames
and
@GameDevsMENA
🍉 🍉 💜 💜
Kick your imagination into gear and dream revolutionary dreams!
More about when and how to submit:
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She’s finally here in all her beauty!
She is adorned by an origami of Eros from
@bennnyknight
and a figure from
@ojuliaspinola
💖
The bow is because this is for the most part my birthday gift from
@maryamtbh
so thank you for absolutely spoiling me with this! 😭💖
Me every day since ordering my pc thinking about when it will get here
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Today’s talks at the Games Mental Health Summit were very insightful! Thank you
@BAFTAGames
and
@SafeInOurWorld
in our world for such a fantastic event! I look forward to future editions of this!
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Had a wonderful first day at
@WASDlive_
! Highlights are: garlic gurl at Vampire Survivors, and “oh lawd he comin” at Cult of the lamb 😂
Also, thank you
@Omnislash92
for the wonderful and insightful talk on perfecting your design portfolio!
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Hello everyone!
It would be wonderful if you could nominate me for the Games Awards Future Class 2023!
I recently won a Student BAFTA for games, marking many firsts including the first female game director and the first non-European to win the category!
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Do you know someone who represents the bright, bold and inclusive future of video games?
Applications are open for
@TheGameAwards
Future Class 2023!
Submit before October 20, and meet our new class this December during
#thegameawards
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Bilingual people whose names are not in English can we agree to collectively stop deliberately mispronouncing our names when introducing ourselves to monolingual English speakers?
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I finally started playing
@OuterloopGames
Thirsty Suitors yesterday and I’m already relating to it because of Carrom (popular in Hijaz just like India) and the jewelry in packaging similar to Claire’s (popular with angsty teens globally)
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Played most of those on mobile so this is great because I wanted to play all of them on pc as well 👀
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My dad sent me pictures of a sentient knafeh back home
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Always a pleasure to chat with our new intake and help them navigate the next two years of their lives! 💖
Diversity and inclusion should never be an afterthought and I’m very glad so many students were at the panel today during their Springboard!
This morning, we welcomed award-winning grads
@_rafifk
and
@LisaKenneyBTS
back to talk about the importance of
#allyship
and
#inclusion
in filmmaking and collaboration. Important elements we encourage our students to consider during their journey with
@NFTSFilmTV
.
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I know 99% of you follow me for game dev content etc but I honestly have no clue how anyone can think of anything else other than what Gaza is going through right now.
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Living with an artist means cool art of you in your natural habitat 🥺💙
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I want to say I’m very proud of myself and fellow
@NFTS_Games
Alumni especially during this
@EGX
🤍
3 panels and a talk!
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Spotted a shrine the other day but wasn’t able to activate it, does anyone have a walkthrough video I can follow?
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LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL GAME!!
Here’s a small sneak peek into our game, officially debuting at
@EGX
London 2022 in TWO days!
Come find us at the Rezzed Zone at
@EGX
& try our game! 💘🔍
#exlsgame
#egx2022
#gamedev
#indiegamedev
#indiegames
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Wonderful talk by
@AnnaHollinrake
today! Also, thank you for representing all the MCR stans 😂
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Finally dragged myself out the house for this wonderful
@BAFTAGames
masterclass with
@JumpOvertheAge
and
@newjorg
!
Loved hearing both of their approaches to dystopia in their games and how they deal with important narrative elements in dystopian worlds!
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A day late to the hype but I decided to get the launch edition in order to get these beautiful lithographs and the gorgeous map of Baghdad 👀
#AssassinsCreed
#AssassinCreedMirage
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Best souvenir from any trip is a bafta 🌝
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Guess what didn’t happen
I’m hoping to see TGA addressing the massive layoffs our industry went through although we had record profits.
I’m also hoping to see TGA addressing the open letter regarding Palestine that over 2.9k game devs have signed.
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Mornings at home mean mint tea, Fairouz, and cat cuddles 🤍
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Since we’re talking about food (and I’m still waiting for mine), here are 4 Palestinian restaurants in London on my list 👀🧵
(Not cropping images inside the thread for copyrights)
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Just witnessed this beautiful double rainbow right from my balcony
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So no one was gonna tell me I can just put Arabic letter stickers on my English only keyboard and I was supposed to find out about them over a year later? 😭
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TW/ Child m*urder
I didn’t ever want to be this political on main but honestly I don’t care anymore
I was holding on well enough this past week but this broke me beyond comprehension
This child has probably never even been to Palestine, probably isn’t even old enough 1/??
A landlord, reportedly angry at what he read in the news, knocked on the door of his Muslim Palestinian tenants. When Hanaan Shahin answered, he tried to choke her, attack her with a knife, and yelled: "you Muslims must die!" When she went to call 911, he killed her 6 yr old son.
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Didn’t play many games on day 2 because I was talking to so many wonderful people!
However, if you haven’t tried
@Viewfinder_Game
yet, you absolutely need to!
Feel free to message me if you wanna connect today since it’s the last and final day of
@WASDlive_
!
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Blessing you all with some storyboarding for the game's intro cutscene! 💘🕵️
#ErosXaviersLoveSolutions
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How I feel harvesting potatoes from the potato bag plant situation I set up in the balcony
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It was a great first day at
#DevelopConf
yesterday! Some of my favorites would definitely the talks by
@Dan_Gray
,
@pompeygina
, Tyler Rotheram, Grace Curtis from
@FutureFriendsVG
,
@oneofmoo
, and
@Tulaychan
!
Looking forward for today’s talks :D
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ألف مبروك لفريق تطوير لعبة الباسل من استديوهات Lucky7! 💚
جداً فخورة في الفريق وحقيقي اجتهدوا وجهدهم ما راح سُدى!
ننتظر نسمع أخبار حلوة منهم في المستقبل
اليوم يوم جميل جدا لاستديوهات لاكي سڤن.
#الباسل فازت بأفضل لعبة سعودية لسنة ٢٠٢٣. نحب نشكر
@TrueGaming
لاستضافتنا في حفل #جوائز_تروجيمنج .
القادم ان شاء الله افضل وانتظرونا في عام ٢٠٢٦😉.
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Successfully pitched my possible final year project ideas 🎉
I 100% know which one I’ll work on before I even pitched but it was wonderful hearing feedback from the panel saying they like all the ideas for the most part!
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Absolutely true especially if you move away from your family and your home city/country.
Find friends who celebrate or would enjoy celebrating the same holidays as you and host them, do a pot luck if you can’t make all the food, but create your own joy regardless ✨
Once you hit 23, it’s your responsibility to facilitate holiday traditions in your life and home.
If you don’t, it will never “feel like Christmas” again.
Time passage will also feel like “endless scroll” if you don’t create and uphold seasonal activities.
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While you are celebrating a beloved holiday today with your family, please think of those from the land of Jesus himself who cannot celebrate and who have been torn apart from their families due to relentless bombing.
Don’t stop calling for a ceasefire!
Palestinians in Bethlehem, for whom Christmas is cancelled, deliver a message to the world. Today Israel will continue to rain bombs on Gaza as across the world people exchange messages of peace. Peace can only be built on a foundation of respect for the rights of all.
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Happy
#HorizonForbiddenWest
day! My first early birthday gift this year is none other than HFW’s Collector’s Edition! 🤩
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Secondly: favorite games I’ve been played before:
@NewfangledGames
’s Paper Trail
@FlorianVltmn
and
@baptisteworks
’s How To Say Goodbye
@LaPouleNoireJV
’s To Hell With The Ugly
And of course
@cultofthelamb
!
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I ordered a custom pc on March 26 and I’ve been checking for updates everyday since I’m so excited 😭
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LET’S GOOOOO I COULDNT BE HAPPIER FOR
@ashtaf130
!!!! VERY WELL DESERVED!! I don’t know any one who works hard to represent MENA/SWANA as much as he does! Congratulations friend! 🎉 💖💖💖
Welcome the 2023
#TheGameAwards
Future Class.
Meet and learn about this year's class, who represent the inclusive future of gaming:
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For anyone who does not know who this is, this is my baby Tofi, I’ve had him for around 8 years now and he’s my favorite cat in the entire world and I miss him so much 😔
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Morocco’s win is a win for Morocco, for Africa, and for Arabs ❤️🇲🇦
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Ah yes, the most coveted limited edition of the Nathan Drake Collection, the vegetable™
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Happy birthday to our little studio! ✨
1 year ago, we set out on a mission to create a gaming experience that lies beyond the horizon. Today we celebrate our
#1YearAnniversary
! 🥳🎉
Special thanks to our amazing Starvanians and supporters. Here's to many years of creativity and passion! 💫
#IndieGameDev
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In case anyone was wondering what this was about.
U.S. President Joe Biden's energy security advisor is visiting Israel to discuss potential economic revitalization plans for Gaza centered around undeveloped offshore natural gas fields
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Literally, two of my favorite people in the MENA/SWANA game dev community are part of the theme reveal 🥹 Looking good
@ashtaf130
@pikamesho
❤️🔥🫶
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I'm trying to think of ways to support with what little resources I have. considering the amount of graphic and shocking images we are seeing daily repeatedly now, I decided to start sharing art by Palestinian artists and the sorts where I can. Writing the first one in a bit!
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If you haven’t played Alba it’s high time that you do! It’s the absolute cutest game with a well crafted environment protection message
Alba is presently free on the Epic Store
It's a game where you TAKE PICTURES OF BIRDS
I mean there's other animals, and you also clean up stuff and do Wildlife Scouting but, let's be real, I spent 20 minutes in the tutorial just chasing the Killdeer around
because lookit himb
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I absolutely love helping people at my school edit, translate, and integrate Arabic in their films and work like yes please seek help for such things from people who actually speak the language I want to see proper Arabic in media 🥹
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Just doing some lighting tests and thought these are a vibe 🪴🌸🌱
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Are you a game developer?
Are you in active development?
This is your reminder to SAVE FREQUENTLY
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Me every day since ordering my pc thinking about when it will get here
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Turnaround is amazingly fast!
Very happy to say I'm a mentee in this year's
@LBMentorship
😍
Looking forward to finding a mentor and making meaningful connections!
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For my first project I really wanted to create a game that is lighthearted and funny (before diving into darker themes, sorry in advance,
@thorn_alan
), as well as experiment with 2D more. I’m quite happy with the way this turned out!
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The is definitely a very early testing outcome for the environment, but I also tested a lighting asset and this looks very pretty already I’m super excited to add more details, lights, and texture!
#erosxavierslovesolutions
#gamedev
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We're finalists
@EXLSgame
!!
Winners will be announced at the end of July so wish us luck!
Special thanks to our Title Partner Yugo (
@yugo_global
), and our Official Airline Partners at
@delta
and
@virginatlantic
for their support of this program.
View the finalists at the link below.
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We wanted to create a game focused on rebuilding Palestine but still telling the story of the aggression it suffers.
This was our entry to
@JustPlayJam
and I’m so proud of the hard work our team put into it!
Make sure to have the sound on to enjoy the beautiful music!
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SHOULD I????? 👀👀👀👀👀
Excited to share
@TheGameAwards
FUTURE CLASS program will return for its third year.
We will select 50 individuals who represent the bright, bold and inclusive future of gaming.
Do you know someone to consider?
Submit a nomination by Oct 21:
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Show me an image that is most nostalgic to you
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I will articulate better after a couple hours of sleep 😭
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Best decision I made before my flight to London was download هلأ لوين؟ and كفرناحوم beforehand because I didn’t get the chance to watch them until now and they’re absolute masterpieces! If you’re in the MENA region definitely take the time to watch them since they’re on Netflix!
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Just saw this massive, absolute unit of a blooming magnolia tree on my bus ride home and I don’t know how I can live without her honestly
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Very excited to be producing this game! Come and chat and try
@therewasahome
at
#EGX2023
A narrative-driven 3D puzzle game that follows Noor, who is tasked with cleaning out her family home after receiving a letter from her father. 🏡
Get a unique first-hand look into the life of a Saudi family in their Hijaz home at the EGX Rezzed Zone this October!
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@FalahShazib
Starvania Studio, based in Saudi Arabia, are working on Bahamut, a game inspired Arabian and Middle Eastern Mythology!
Bahamut takes you in a journey of Arabian mythology underwater in an action-adventure game.
Where the ocean got dark and corrupted by mysterious forces, and It’s on you to restore the harmony, and bring back the light to the ocean. 🌊
Coming on Steam 2023!
#indiegame
#Steam
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Our game jam is officially LIVE!
We had the pleasure of hosting
@RasheedAbueideh
for a short opening session! 🇵🇸
Looking forward to seeing everyone's submissions!
We are so incredibly excited to announce the 'Towards a Free Palestine' game jam in collaboration with
@3arabicGames
and
@GameDevsMENA
🍉 🍉 💜 💜
Kick your imagination into gear and dream revolutionary dreams!
More about when and how to submit:
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Can’t wait to see my friend and colleague do a talk during EGX 🥹💖
I'm giving a talk at
#egx2022
on Saturday!! Come and listen if you want to find out more about disability in the games industry 🥰🥰🥰
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It was a nice day in Brighton in General! So glad
#developconf
this year is in July not October 😂
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I am back again to ask for nominations 🫡
If you can spare a couple of minutes it would be great if you can nominate me for MCV’s 30 Under 30!
You can find my information as needed here:
IRL is returning this November, and 30 Under 30 nominations are now open!
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Happy to announce I will be a part of Melanin Gamers panel on “Breaking into the Gaming Industry” on Saturday at
#EGX2023
!
If you’re trying to break into the industry and would like to hear some tips and tricks (and struggles) come join us at 3:30 pm!
We are back at EGX!!! 🥳
First panel is our big announcement!
Second panel is a group panel. With two wonderful game devs!
Join us at 3:30pm on the Community Hub Stage!
-
#EGX
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Great food and definitely recommend! Haven’t tried everything but I’ll comeback to do so probably 😂
Their roz mo’amar is too sweet for my taste tho and food is heavy generally. Ngl best kofta I’ve had in the UK.
Found a good Egyptian restaurant in London and I cannot contain my excitement 😩 WILL be posting pictures probably
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