Hi,

Thank you for signing up to volunteer with the Palestinian Voices in Games initiative — this newsletter will keep you updated on the program's progress.

The news from Palestine and Lebanon isn’t getting any better but we are making progress toward setting up our volunteer network to support the production of Palestinian games. 

Here’s how this will work:

• Palestinian creators send a short pitch of their project to Palestinian Voices in Games.

• We schedule a video call to meet and discuss what the network can offer. In this meeting we go through the project pitch together and we work on creating a list of needs.

• Based on the information collected, we look for relevant and available volunteers in the network and introduce them to the Palestinian creators.

• We create a contract to protect everyone and make sure the game and the rights stay with their creators.

• We check on each other regularly to make sure everyone is doing well!

• Hopefully we all celebrate the game’s release together!

While Palestinian Voices in Games will not collect and distribute any funds, it will help creators set up crowdfunding campaigns and share them with the network. 

Speaking of crowdfunding, the Palestinian developper Rasheed Abueideh (Liyla and the Shadows of War) just launched one to fund his new project : Dreams on a Pillow.

Dreams on a pillow is a pseudo-3D stealth adventure game inspired by a historical Palestinian folk tale set during the ethnic cleansing that was the 1948 Nakba. Make sure to take a look at this daring projet, support it if you can, and share it around. 

In other News, Hippolyte Caubet released The Blood on our Controllers, an amateur documentary made to denounce the role of the video game industry in the normalization of the Palestinian genocide, through its close relation with the military industrial complex and the representation of Arab communities in games.

You might recognize familiar faces in it, such as Rami Ismail, Younès Rabii, Florent Maurin, Meghna Jayanth, Holly Nielsen, Rasheed Abueideh, Elodie Roblain and Florence Nichols Smith. Feel free to share the documentary to raise awareness on the subject among game devs.

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We are still looking to expand our list of volunteers so please feel free to talk about the initiative with your peers and share the project’s website. There are some skills we are still missing, such as 3D art and 3D animation, so we are especially looking for such profiles. 

Thank you again for joining the Palestinian Voices in Game network.

The team at Palestinian Voices in Games.