Fueling Qatar’s growing gaming scene – and hoping to challenge Arab stereotypes in the process – a group of young Khaleeji entrepreneurs are preparing to launch a new mobile platform game this Ramadan.
The game, titled Hamad and Sahar, follows the adventures of a bilingual brother-sister duo as they explore the world of Arabian folktales in a 2D side scroller style akin to the popular Super Mario game series.
Players can choose to be either Hamad or Sahar, and graduate to different levels by breaking blocks to obtain valuable items like keys and recovery items like food.
The game was created by Space Crescent, and is the second edition of an earlier prototype that was launched last March, which has since been reworked to include new features and levels.
Creation
In an interview with Doha News, Faisal Al Kubaisi, CEO of Space Crescent, explained how the concept came to be: “When we decided to publish a game we decided to make a simple platform game instead of a huge one,” the 26-year-old Qatar University graduate said. “After deciding that, we contacted Girnaas and proposed Hamad and Sahar. They decided to support us and publish the game for us in their accounts on the store and help in marketing it,” he said.
Original article by Chantelle D’Mello
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