Today I wrapped up filming the video segments of a 5 week game design course in Arabic based on my book in collaboration with the wonderful people at Edraak. hope it benefits aspiring developers from the region. Edraak is an NGO, the course will be available for free at a later date. Will post links … Continue reading Game design course filming at Edraak, Jordan, September 2019
Google runs an incredible initiative in which a competition is available for indie companies from South America, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. They apply to be flown to the google offices in Singapore to receive one week intensive mentorship from 30 industry experts and googlers. Out of 1700+ applications, 30 companies were selected. … Continue reading Google indie accelerator – Singapore – July 2019
Rami Ismael has put together a hell of an event. The idea is to have information available on game development for people all over the world in their language. Gamedev.world is an event that is completely online, streamed live as game developers give talks in their native language that is simultaneously translated to 8 different … Continue reading GameDevWorld June 2019
Had a great time meeting the local Italian game dev scene in Rome, meeting the students and the faculty as well as play a whole lot of old games in a very impressive retro game show. I did a talk on game design inspiration and how we motivate designers at king to keep on doing … Continue reading Level up Rome, May 2019
First time at game dev days as well as first time in Estonia and I was blown away by both, loved the vibe of the city and the dev scene and was thoroughly impressed! I did a talk about game design inspiration as well as a panel on the sins of game designers, I'm really … Continue reading Game Dev Days, Tallinn, April 2019
I handed out the best "guilty pleasure" winner at the international mobile games awards ceremony in San Francisco during GDC. Congrats to all the nominees and winners for outstanding achievements in technical, artistic and gameplay innovation. You can find the full list here: https://www.imgawards.com/winners-nominees/15th-imga/
Tuesday I spoke at the game developers conference, humbled not only because people showed up to my talk, but also to share the stage with great thinkers and industry icons Eric Zimmerman, Nicholas Fortugno, Kenny Shea Dinkin and Juan Gril... it has been a hell of an experience! Thanks to my friends and colleagues who … Continue reading Talk at GDC March 2019 in San Francisco
Loads of fun and hard decisions to make as I took part of being on the jury of the international mobile game awards. I was part of a panel of industry illuminates as we played through and discussed 150 games finalists for the awards this year. So many inspiring games and discussions. Can't wait to … Continue reading IMGA 2019 Jury in Helsinki
Did a talk in white nights last week in their first edition in Berlin it was about Japanese live ops, it's always a pleasure to see those guys, they can throw some awesome events.
Many will remember 2018 for being the year of Epic: with explosive growth for Fortnite Battle Royale as it took over the world powering the company to launch it's own PC store that went directly after Steam's money. It was also the year Microsoft bought so many studios as it prepares for the upcoming next … Continue reading Fawzi Mesmar’s Top 15 Games Of The Year 2018
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