KNIGHTS OF AL AQSA MOSQUE

Entrant 2021


CREATOR
NIDAL NIJM GAMES - SOLO DEVELOPER - ONE MAN ARMY

Description

FURSAN AL-AQSA - THE KNIGHTS OF AL-AQSA MOSQUE is a Third Person Shooter game which addresses the Israel x Palestine conflict from a Palestinian perspective, breaking the cliché of representing Muslim and Arabs as Terrorists, Bandits, Villains and the Americans/Israelis as the "Good Guys" and "Heroes" of History. This is the first game in the games industry which addresses such a sensitive topic, in a realistic way, showing the other side of history, which is very unknown by people, mostly here on west.

You play as Ahmad al-Falastini, 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 prison, seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland, by joining a new Palestine Resistance Movement called Fursan al-Aqsa - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque.

I am a brazilian muslim, son of a Palestinian Resistance Fighter, and I always wanted to tell the history of my father, and the history of my people, the palestinian people and their resistance against oppression. Through this game I want to show to the whole World that Fighting for Freedom is NOT Terrorism, Fighting for Life is NOT Terrorism, Fighting for Protecting the Homeland is NOT Terrorism, Fighting against the Oppressor and its Savagery is NOT Terrorism, that Palestine Resistance is NOT Terrorism!

And despite having a completely different story, plot and thematics, but, on it's heart, Fursan al-Aqsa is a love letter for Goldeneye 007 (N64), the Eternal Classic Shooter of all times. Even the legendary Martin Hollis, the director and main programmer of Goldeneye 007 loved and praised my game:

https://twitter.com/martinhollis/status/1359189828173238275
https://twitter.com/martinhollis/status/1359190260173987846


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