Assalamu Alaykum Brothers,
My name is Nidal Nijm, I am a brazilian muslim from Palestine Ascendance. I am developing a 3D game about Jihad in Palestine in which you play as a Palestine Fighter against Israel Army. I plan to release on Steam, Playstation 3 and Xbox360, Insha Allah, and would like to know if I am allowed to show off this project here.
I am asking permission because many forums and sites don’t allow advertising.
Jazakom Allah Khayr.
Salaams,
I am not an admin but I believe it is allowed. If you wish to confirm you can join the MG discord server which is very active and has a shura in addition to a game dev chat group. I already know of some games developed by MG members on the discord channel and posted for everyone to see once they were completed. Hope this helps.
Best,
StormCult
Shukran my brother for answering me. I want to present my game like an interactive movie which tells the history of a young palestine student who was jailed unjustly, totured and then seeks his revenge. There will be no civilians, just soldiers in the game.
Soon I will showcase it here, Insha Allah.
By the way, I am developing this game using my own modified version of Unreal Engine 3, which exports for PC, PS3 and Xbox360:
Hi. I am a new member here and I loved that you are making a game about the situation in Palestine. I just wanted to tell you that I can do beta testing for you if you like. Good luck on your game.
Masha Allah Brother, thanks for this supportive comment. I am saying this because unfortunately, I have faced many bad comments from many muslims, comments that made me feel sad, and almost give up on this game. However, whenever I find muslim brothers supportive to me, so this will keep me motivated to finish this game, as you know, it is very hard to develop and entire game alone, and I am working on this game from almost 2 years. So whenever I feel support from my muslim brothers and I am sure that many of them will support me and help me by purchasing my game, this gives me energy to continue on this project, Insha Allah.
By the way, here comes some screenshots for the curious 
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).
[b]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)
