Games & Resistance – Details, episodes & analysis

For our first episode, we talk to Rasheed Abueideh, a Palestinian software engineer and game designer who lives in the West Bank. We talk to Rasheed about his award-winning 2016 game, Liyla and The Shadows of War, as well as his current project, Dreams on a Pillow, a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba. Rasheed is currently crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow on LaunchGood (ending on January 13).

Logo illustration by Elyce Phillips. Jingle by David Kanaga.

Links:

Dreams on a Pillow (LaunchGood campaign) https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/dreams_on_a_pillow

Liyla and The Shadows of War (2016) https://rasheedabueideh.itch.io/liyla-and-the-shadows-of-war

Rasheed's 2017 GDC talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVSY4My1JIY

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe https://oneworld-publications.com/work/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine/

For our second episode, we talk to Ramsey Nasser, a Lebanese game designer, computer scientist, and educator who lives in NYC. We talk to Ramsey about one of his recent projects, gaza.memorial, as well as some of his political games and other interactive media art.

Logo illustration by Elyce Phillips. New jingle by Meena Shamaly.

Links:

Ramsey's website https://nas.sr/about/

gaza.memorial https://gaza.memorial/

Dialogue 3-D https://nas.sr/dialogue-3-d/

Handväska! https://nasser.itch.io/handvaska

The Opposite of Occupied Is Not Vacant https://occupied.land/

How To Write A Joke That Will Still Be Funny In Two Thousand Years (talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmYRHZYktrc

Compassionate Exclusion (escape room) https://www.compassionatex.net/

EMMA Technology Cooperative https://emma.coop/