I am developing a game about Palestine Resistance

[UDKUltimate]

Barak Allah fikom dear brothers for all your supportive comments.

About the haram and halal, yeah, I am well aware of it, I know that some scholars say it is haram, while other scholars say it is halal if there is a good purpose behind it, if at least the halal outweights the haram.

I don't like to enter in fiqh debates, as it may lead to some void and unnecessary discussions, even it may cause discord between muslim brothers.

I follow the Quran, the Holy Book from Allah Subhana Wata'ala, and the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad, Sali Allah Aleihi Wa Salem, and as said our Prophet in a Hadith: "Fear Allah as much as you can..."

In this era we are living now, we now that Haram things are all arround us, in each place we go, and this is true even for Islamic Countries. What I am trying to say, is that is almost impossible for us muslims, live without commiting sins, or mistakes.

I am not saying that we must disobey Allah, I am saying that we will indeed, someday, sometime, commit some sin, some mistakes. And as once told our Prophet Muhammad, if you were never going to commit sins, Allah would change you from people who would commit sins, then would repent from their sins.

Also he said that the best among us are those who repent from their sins.

So I take these statements to live my life. Like anyone here, I did commit some sins and mistakes in my life, from which I sincerely repented to Allah and whenever I commit some sin or mistake, I hasten to repent to Allah.

Like said once, Shaykh Ibn Qayyim, "Never fear tired of seeking repentance or asking Allah's forgiveness, even if you feel you are astray from the right path"

So even if there may be something of haram in this videogame, the main objective of it is halal, is to raise up the flag of jihad in Palestine, saying the truth about Israel Army (not the common jew citizen, as there are many of them who are not against islam), is to give to muslim youth an oportunity to feel what is to be a Mujahid, and so on.

I always try to keep a good balance of my deeds, whenever I commit something wrong, a sin, I try to do something good to expiate it, as Good deeds wipe out bad deeds. I know in example, I can stay overnight praying to Allah Subhana Wata'ala asking his forgiveness, I can recite the Said Istighfar Dua, I can fast on monday and thursday, I can pray voluntary prayers and so on. So I know I can do many things to compensate my bad deeds, and it's because this I am not focusing on this question "Are animated drawing halal, or better, is my game halal or haram"

Insha Allah untill next week I will publish here the trailer for my game, "Fursan al-Aqsa - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque".

Here is just a teaser for the curious :shade::

 

[UDKUltimate]

Here comes other screenshots:

 

[Ahmed.]

Brother, you have to reanact that scene in rambo where he screws on a rocket to his rpg, aims at enemy and blows his head off! :Emoji48:

 

[taha_]

Salaam brother,

I used to be gamer when i was 7 years old, and got addicted to gaming, which was worse . Alhamdilliuah, my Lord has guided me to His path, i left gaming this year.

As for that game you are developing. May Allah make your project succesful.

JazakAllah.

 

[Ahmed.]

Have you checked with PlayStation and xbox, as I think they may not allow this game as they wouldn't want to get an 'anti semitic' label, or worse, 'endorsing terrorism' label

 

[UDKUltimate]

Jazakom Allah Khayr my dear brothers!!!

I trully never imagined that my game would have a good reception here.

Insha Allah this project will be sucessful, as I ask this to Allah Subhana Wata'ala on all my prayers and dua'as.

About Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox, yes, I am aware of this, and already have a workarround for avoid my project getting banned.I wont release it on Steam, nor on the oficial Playstation and Xbox Network, I will release on another site, which growing up fast and it is an excelent alternative to steam, more easy for both the player to purchase the games and the developer to sell it, also the fee is much smaller than 30% of Steam, itch.io.

Also, most important, is that on itch.io there is no content filter, you can create and upload any kind of game there! Also I can upload the original file, which means, I can sell the game in 3 versions, PC, XBOX360 and PS3 for just one price (purchase one and you got the 3 versions), and upload the game for PC alongside the PS3 pkg file and the XBOX360 xex file.

Salam.

 

[سيف الله]

Salaam

I vaguely remember a game told from the Palestinian perspective where they had to endure the Israeli occupation. Israeli establishment found out they went apoplectic.

In the west there are plenty of military styled video games where you get to kill nondescript 'others' in name of 'freedom' or 'democracy' and doesnt evoke a backlash

This is a crude example.

More sophisticated.

Medal of honour did evoke some controversy because you could play as the Taliban (in multiplayer).

The UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox criticized the game in advance of its release stating that it was "shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers". "At the hands of the Taliban, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands". "It's hard to believe any citizen of our country would wish to buy such a thoroughly un-British game. I would urge retailers to show their support for our armed forces and ban this tasteless product."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor_(2010_video_game)

This game was cancelled due to protests.

And to be fair there are a few games that display suprising nuance eg. Spec Ops - The Line.

Back on topic its an Interesting idea you have bro, let see where it goes.

 

[UDKUltimate]

Dear brothers,

I forgot to tell about the mosque in the screenshots, it is the Masjid al-Sakhra (Dome of the rock). I modelled the Original Alaqsa Mosque, it is in this map, however I just did not show everything yet on these screenshots, as I want to show off on the video trailers which I am going to soon publish here, Insha Allah.

I am very happy, praise be to Allah, that all brothers here in Islamic Board liked my game idea, I was worried about not finding enough support from muslim brothers, however, now I feel this project will be sucessfull, Insha Allah.

About the western games noted by [MENTION=25172]Junon[/MENTION], yeah my brother, I know this, however, I was worried because, all the world knows that whenever muslims and arabs are portraited as villains and bandits in videogames, that's fine, however, whenever we try to portrait muslims as heroes and Mujahideens, we are labelled as making "terrorist propaganda"

Jazakum Allah Alf Khayr Ia Ikhwa Al Ahbab.

 

[UDKUltimate]

Assalamu Alaykum Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Here follows some video trailers for my game Fursan al-Aqsa - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque.

I uploaded to YouTube these videos, however, Subhana Allah, in question of 4 hours after uploaded the video, YouTube did delete these videos and warned me about not abiding by their community rules, and that my videos were tagged as Hate Speech against minorities (we all know that Google are Zionists).

So I uploaded these videos to my personal Google Drive account, here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=161Hig7bg9Qb0xtEEvswBH44I54JZLQfG

So what do you think? Would you play this game? Would you support me by purchasing this game? I am willing to sell it for a very cheap price, just for me earn something, Insha Allah, and don't stay in loss. If I continue on this project, and make it a full game, I would be willing to sell it in chapters, missions, and each mission I would sell for something like U$ 1,00, so the game will have 10 missions (chapters), a total of U$ 10,00 which I think is a fair price for an indie game. I would be able to develop one chapter by month, Insha Allah.

Barak Allah Fikom.

Assalamu Alaykum,

Nidal Nijm.

 

[taha_]

Salaam brother,


The story trailer which you made is good written, but your gameplay video feels really laggy. What GPU and CPU do you have ?

 

[UDKUltimate]

Assalamu Alaykum Brother,

Thanks for the comments!

As I said before, these are very old videos, as I did update the character models, I have made many changes even in the gameplay. I know the gameplay video is a bit laggy, however, I will be remaking all these trailers with the new updated models, Insha Allah, and I will capture gameplat directly from Playstation 3, because my PC is a bit old, even though the game runs at 30fps without lag, however, whenever I capture gameplay and run the game at the same time, it lags a lot.

Barak Allah Fik!

 

[taha_]

Assalamu Alaykum Brother,

Thanks for the comments!

As I said before, these are very old videos, as I did update the character models, I have made many changes even in the gameplay. I know the gameplay video is a bit laggy, however, I will be remaking all these trailers with the new updated models, Insha Allah, and I will capture gameplat directly from Playstation 3, because my PC is a bit old, even though the game runs at 30fps without lag, however, whenever I capture gameplay and run the game at the same time, it lags a lot.

Barak Allah Fik!

Salaam brother,

I would suggest spend more time on opimitizing the game, so it may be less laggy for some low end pc.

 

[UDKUltimate]

Salaam brother,

I would suggest spend more time on opimitizing the game, so it may be less laggy for some low end pc.

Yeah brother, the game runs fine even on low end pc's, because it is based on DirectX 9, my notebook is from 2011, it has just a GTS 360 M 1GB Nivida Card, which is bit old and DON'T run the new games released, the most "advanced" game my PC did run was Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

My game Fursan al-Aqsa runs smoothly on any PC, however, capture video using software is a very demanding CPU-GPU taks, you need indeed to have a very powerfull PC to capture video in HD resolution and with a smooth gameplay.

I may ask to some friend of mine capture gameplay on his PC whenever I want to make another video Insha Allah.

The other trailers (reveal, history and join resistance trailers), they were rendered as movie directly from Unreal Engine 3, because this they don't lag.

However, I will re-do ALL these trailers Insha Allah, an then I come back here to show them here.

 

[UDKUltimate]

[MENTION=44717]Caplets[/MENTION]

Assalamu Alaykum My Brother,

I could not answer your private message because it says I am not a full member yet.

Thanks for the comments.

Like I said, these are OLD trailers which I created way before. I already changed, polished many things, especially in the character's graphics.

About using more imagery instead of text, it is not that easy my brother, as for doing this, that means you need more animations, more characters in scene, and it is very hard and time consuming making a lot of stuff on screen while keeping a descent graphical quality.

About using non instrumental nasheeds, yes, I thought of that, it would be more halal than the music I am using, however, as I want to make this a commercial game, and by using non instrumental jihad nasheeds, it will reassemble too much the nasheeds of well known mujahideen groups, and many people would tag this game as terrorist propaganda, and will object. Because this I opted by using traditional Palestine Nasheed with Musical Instrument, because it also bakes well with the game pacing and setting.

About using voice narration for the trailer, yeah, I thought of that, however I don't have the money to pay a voice actor. However, I opted by using those sound effects on the trailer (history trailer) to make the player uses his own imagination to feel immersed in the game's history.

Assalamu Alaykum!

 

[UDKUltimate]

Assalamu Alaykum (Peace be with you)

My name is Nidal Nijm, I am Brazillian Muslim, from Arab ascendance, my father is from Palestine.

I am just an indie solo developer trying to find my place in the game industry.

I am well known on the homebrew PS3 community. Just search on google UDK Ultimate Engine

Summarizing, some years ago I did port UDK Engine (the free version of Unreal Engine 3) from EPIC Games to PS3 and Xbox360 creating the first and only Fully 3D Engine for developing homebrew games for PS3 and Xbox360.

This project stayed online for almost 3 years, it got a lot of visibility, millions of download, untill recently EPIC Games got aware of this project and asked me to take it down, because it breaks their EULA and Copyrights.

So I did take down this project, and did apologize for EPIC Games, because I never intended to harm them in anyway. EPIC Games were so kind with me, they recognized my efforts and talent on porting their engine for home consoles by myself, and allowed me to keep using my modified version of their engine, they gave me a Unreal Engine 3 License, I signed with them a contract, and now I am developing my first comercial game.

I even created a very fun and free mini game recently, for PC, PS3 and Xbox360, using my modified version of UDK Engine. Search on Google for Gears of Kombat.

The download links are on the video description on my YouTube Channel.

So now with a Commercial License for using Unreal Engine 3, I decided to develop my first commercial game, a game about the War in Palestine.

I know this theme may be very sensitive for many people, however, I will try to explain what my game is about, and will show that my game does not promote violence or "terrorist propaganda".

First of all, In this game, the player does not shoot Israeli civilians, women, children, elderly, only soldiers. Also in this game there are NO images of sexual content, illicit drugs, religious desecration, hate of speech against any group, ethnicity or religion, anti-Semitist propaganda against Jews, Nazi propaganda or boasting of any terrorist groups and / or other unlawful acts. This game only contains the virtual representation of the Palestinian Resistance Movement against the Israeli Military Occupation, which is officially recognized by the United Nations (UN).

I want to be clear that my objective in this game is that I just want to players experience a war game through another perspective.

From since I was a Kid I always asked myself why there are no games on which we, Arabs and Muslims, are portraied as heroes, instead of villains and terrorists? And this is true, the representation of Arabs and Muslims in games for a long time was just through the flag of Terrorists, Killers, Assassins, Bandits, and so on. Only recently middle-eastern and muslim characters are portraied as heroes and "cool" characters, like in Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, Overwatch, and others.

Added to this, my father was a Fighter of the Palestine Resistance Movement, he fought against Israel Army in the Lebanese Civil War on the 70's, and from since I was a kid, I felt too much proud of my father and the Palestine People in General, because of their Strenght and Constant Resistance.

So this game is kinda tribute to the Brave People of Palestine and their Resistance against Military Occupation.

Talking about the game itself, Fursan al-Aqsa - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque is a Third Person Action Game on which you play as Ahmad al-Ghazzawi, a young Palestinian Student who was unjustly tortured and jailed by Israeli Soldiers for 5 years, had all his family killed by an Israeli Airstrike and now after getting out from the prison he seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland.

This game is being developed during the course of 4 years by one person (me, Nidal Nijm), in a custom version of UDK Engine (Unreal Engine 3), using the best technology to tell a compelling story through a game packed with non stop action, advanced 3D graphics and modern gameplay mechanics, however keeping the soul of old school shooters.

You will play in missions accross ground, sea and sky, you have many objectives to accomplish in each mission, epic bosses battles, powerful guns, vehicles to drive, helicopters to take down, and much more. Expect a LOT of Action and Adrenaline!!!

This game also is greatly inspired by Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Insurgency Sandstorm.

I hope soon release a free demo of this game (for PC, PS3 and Xbox360), so people can enjoy and feel what my game is about, enjoy the gameplay, feel the action. I plan to make something similar to Metal Gear Solid VR Missions (If you may remember), on which I will teach the player the basis of the Gameplay, like training the player for the true battle that will come on the final game.

About the first episode (mission), I hope to release it untill the end of January 2020 Insha Allah.

Now I will show you some trailers of the game itself and some promotional arts. I am already redoing these trailers from scratch, remaking the models, animations, and maps, raising the overall quality, polishing things here and there, to deliver a high quality product for all people enjoy.

Also you can see the new updated model for my character protagonist, and the difference between the new player model and the old one, so you all can be sure I am commited to do my best on this game.

These old models were just placeholders for me develop the basic game programming framework and features.

Here you can view all the trailers and screenshots of my game on IndieDB Website.

Just search on google for fursan al-aqsa game. I wont be publishing links here yet, because, as a new user, I want to avoid being tagged as spammer.

Jazakom Allah Khayr (May God give you the best)

 

[UDKUltimate]

So, as I promissed, here I came back with some new updates for my game and the video trailers, alongside screenshots. I hope you liked my game and support me, Insha Allah.

 

[taha_]

Assalam o Alaikum Rahamutullahi wa Barakuthu.

Where have you been, my brother? Welcome back though.. What is the new update of your game?

 

[UDKUltimate]

Salaam my dearb brother.

I have been working hard on my game, and also promoting it on many websites, including twitter, and also many arabic sites and arabic gaming forums.

I just posted here, however, it is awating moderator approval. I think on some minutes it will appear here Insha Allah.

 

[taha_]

Assalam o alaikum rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu.

Masha Allah. What is the progress of your game?

 

[UDKUltimate]

Here, take a read and then access my game's page on IndieDB website.

Assalamu Alaykum (Peace be with you)

My name is Nidal Nijm, I am Brazillian Muslim, from Arab ascendance, my father is from Palestine.

I am just an indie solo developer trying to find my place in the game industry.

I am well known on the homebrew PS3 community. Just search on google UDK Ultimate Engine

Summarizing, some years ago I did port UDK Engine (the free version of Unreal Engine 3) from EPIC Games to PS3 and Xbox360 creating the first and only Fully 3D Engine for developing homebrew games for PS3 and Xbox360.

This project stayed online for almost 3 years, it got a lot of visibility, millions of download, untill recently EPIC Games got aware of this project and asked me to take it down, because it breaks their EULA and Copyrights.

So I did take down this project, and did apologize for EPIC Games, because I never intended to harm them in anyway. EPIC Games were so kind with me, they recognized my efforts and talent on porting their engine for home consoles by myself, and allowed me to keep using my modified version of their engine, they gave me a Unreal Engine 3 License, I signed with them a contract, and now I am developing my first comercial game.

I even created a very fun and free mini game recently, for PC, PS3 and Xbox360, using my modified version of UDK Engine. Search on Google for Gears of Kombat.

The download links are on the video description on my YouTube Channel.

So now with a Commercial License for using Unreal Engine 3, I decided to develop my first commercial game, a game about the War in Palestine.

I know this theme may be very sensitive for many people, however, I will try to explain what my game is about, and will show that my game does not promote violence or "terrorist propaganda".

First of all, In this game, the player does not shoot Israeli civilians, women, children, elderly, only soldiers. Also in this game there are NO images of sexual content, illicit drugs, religious desecration, hate of speech against any group, ethnicity or religion, anti-Semitist propaganda against Jews, Nazi propaganda or boasting of any terrorist groups and / or other unlawful acts. This game only contains the virtual representation of the Palestinian Resistance Movement against the Israeli Military Occupation, which is officially recognized by the United Nations (UN).

I want to be clear that my objective in this game is that I just want to players experience a war game through another perspective.

From since I was a Kid I always asked myself why there are no games on which we, Arabs and Muslims, are portraied as heroes, instead of villains and terrorists? And this is true, the representation of Arabs and Muslims in games for a long time was just through the flag of Terrorists, Killers, Assassins, Bandits, and so on. Only recently middle-eastern and muslim characters are portraied as heroes and "cool" characters, like in Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, Overwatch, and others.

Added to this, my father was a Fighter of the Palestine Resistance Movement, he fought against Israel Army in the Lebanese Civil War on the 70's, and from since I was a kid, I felt too much proud of my father and the Palestine People in General, because of their Strenght and Constant Resistance.

So this game is kinda tribute to the Brave People of Palestine and their Resistance against Military Occupation.

Talking about the game itself, Fursan al-Aqsa - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque is a Third Person Action Game on which you play as Ahmad al-Ghazzawi, a young Palestinian Student who was unjustly tortured and jailed by Israeli Soldiers for 5 years, had all his family killed by an Israeli Airstrike and now after getting out from the prison he seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland.

This game is being developed during the course of 4 years by one person (me, Nidal Nijm), in a custom version of UDK Engine (Unreal Engine 3), using the best technology to tell a compelling story through a game packed with non stop action, advanced 3D graphics and modern gameplay mechanics, however keeping the soul of old school shooters.

You will play in missions accross ground, sea and sky, you have many objectives to accomplish in each mission, epic bosses battles, powerful guns, vehicles to drive, helicopters to take down, and much more. Expect a LOT of Action and Adrenaline!!!

This game also is greatly inspired by Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Insurgency Sandstorm.

I hope soon release a free demo of this game (for PC, PS3 and Xbox360), so people can enjoy and feel what my game is about, enjoy the gameplay, feel the action. I plan to make something similar to Metal Gear Solid VR Missions (If you may remember), on which I will teach the player the basis of the Gameplay, like training the player for the true battle that will come on the final game.

About the first episode (mission), I hope to release it untill the end of January 2020 Insha Allah.

Now I will show you some trailers of the game itself and some promotional arts. I am already redoing these trailers from scratch, remaking the models, animations, and maps, raising the overall quality, polishing things here and there, to deliver a high quality product for all people enjoy.

Also you can see the new updated model for my character protagonist, and the difference between the new player model and the old one, so you all can be sure I am commited to do my best on this game.

These old models were just placeholders for me develop the basic game programming framework and features.

Here you can view all the trailers and screenshots of my game on IndieDB Website.

Just search on google for fursan al-aqsa game. I wont be publishing links here yet, because, as a new user, I want to avoid being tagged as spammer.

Jazakom Allah Khayr (May God give you the best)