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New Game PC, PS3 and Xbox360 - Fursan al-Aqsa - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque

Nidal Nijm Games · 2021-10-01T04:22:13

Assalamu Alaykum (Peace be with you) First of all, I would like to thank my brazillian fellow, ROD Lima, for all his help with Unreal Scripting Programming. He is most know for his Resident Evil 2 Fan Remake in UDK Engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98lnbJPKkg I would like also to thank my friends at UDK Engine Forums (https://forums.unrealengine.com/legacy-tools-unreal-engine-3-udk) for all their help and support. As you may know, recently I had to put offline my project UDK Ultimate Engine (the custom build of UDK Engine with PS3 and Xbox360 Export Support) for copyrights reasons (EPIC asked me to do this), however, they were very kind with me and allowed me to keep using my custom version of UDK to publish my games, I even signed with them an Unreal Engine License Commercial Amendment, so now I am a Licensed Unreal Engine Developer and I am ready to pursue my dream of life! ################################# DISCLAIMER: In this game, the player does not shoot Israeli civilians, women, children, elderly, only soldiers. Also in this game there are NO images of sexual content, illicit drugs, religious desecration, hate of speech against any group, ethnicity or religion, anti-Semitist propaganda against Jews, Nazi propaganda or boasting of any terrorist groups and / or other unlawful acts. This game only contains the virtual representation of the Palestinian Resistance Movement against the Israeli Military Occupation, which is officially recognized by the United Nations (UN). I even sent this project for Brazillian's Government Justice Department, Age Rating Sector (kinda Brazillian ESRB) for their approval and age rating. This project was approved, now I am just waiting for the Age Rating Information of my game which will be available very soon on their website (http://portal.mj.gov.br/ClassificacaoIndicativa/jsps/ConsultarJogoForm.do) I am Brazillian, from Arab ascendance, my father is from Palestine, and something I never revealed before, and one of the biggest reasons of me creating this game, is that my father was a Fighter of the Palestine Resistance Movement, he fought against Israel Army in the Lebanese Civil War on the 70's, and from since I was a kid, I felt too much proud of my father and the Palestine People in General, because of their Strenght and Constant Resistance. So this game is kinda tribute to the Brave People of Palestine and their Resistance against Military Occupation. Fursan al-Aqsa - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque is a Third Person Action Game on which you play as Ahmad al-Ghazzawi, 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 the prison he seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland. This game is being developed during the course of 4 years by one person (me, Nidal Nijm), in a custom version of UDK Engine (Unreal Engine 3), using the best technology to tell a compelling story through a game packed with non stop action, advanced 3D graphics and modern gameplay mechanics, however keeping the soul of old school shooters. You will play in missions accross ground, sea and sky, you have many objectives to accomplish in each mission, epic bosses battles, powerful guns, vehicles to drive, helicopters to take down, and much more. Expect a LOT of Action and Adrenaline!!! This game also is greatly inspired by Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Insurgency Sandstorm. I hope you enjoy this game and support me by purchasing it, Insha Allah (God's Willing). I decided to release this game as episodes (missions), each mission by a symbolic value just to cover my development costs, as everyone knows that develop a game is not an easy task, it takes a lot of time and efforts. It will be a very small value, however any copy sold of this game is very important and will trully help me. Please buy this game to support me (whenever I release it), Insha Allah (God's Willing), because I trully need your help! I hope untill the end of this month (november) release a free demo of this game (for PC, PS3 and Xbox360), so people can enjoy and feel what my game is about, enjoy the gameplay, feel the action. I plan to make something similar to Metal Gear Solid VR Missions (If you may remember), on which I will teach the player the basis of the Gameplay, like training the player for the true battle that will come on the final game. About the first episode (mission), I hope to release it untill the end of December, beginning of January 2020. Now I will show you some trailers of the game itself, a beta version of this game. I am already redoing everything from scratch, remaking the models, animations, and maps, raising the overall quality, polishing things here and there, to deliver a high quality product for all people enjoy. Also you can see the new updated model for my character protagonist, and the difference between the new player model and the old one, so you all can be sure I am commited to do my best on this game. These old models were just placeholders for me develop the basic game programming framework and features. ################################# This trailer tells the history of how the muslims re-conquered Jerusalem: https://www.moddb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque/videos/1-fursan-al-aqsa-reveal-trailer This trailer tells the history of the Game's Protagonist: https://www.moddb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque/videos/video This is the promotional trailer "Join the Resistance": https://www.moddb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque/videos/3-fursan-al-aqsa-join-the-resistance-trailer Some Screenshots of the new Player Model In-Game: ################################# Now some Behind the Scenes Trailers. Making off "Crusader Battle Trailer": https://www.moddb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque/videos/5-fursan-al-aqsa-reveal-trailer-making-off Making off "Ahmad al-Ghazzawi": https://www.moddb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque/videos/10-fursan-al-aqsa-ahmad-al-ghazzawi-making-off You can follow the development of my game here: https://sites.google.com/view/fursanalaqsagame/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcw8iE7JGheoU3Tq4ducTpw/ https://twitter.com/UdkUltimate https://www.moddb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque https://www.indiedb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque Jazakom Allah Khayr (May God give you the best)

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Started by udkultimate November 25, 2019 07:04 AM

90 comments, last by udkultimate 2 years, 9 months ago

udkultimate

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January 05, 2020 01:37 PM

Do you Remember? Who misses that Golden Era? Multiplayer Madness is Back on Fursan al-Aqsa!

The mayhem is coming soon to PC, PS3, Xbox360...

https://sites.google.com/view/udkultimate/

udkultimate

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January 07, 2020 10:22 AM

@SufianDira Assalamu Alaykum Brother.

First of all, what do you understand as “Terrible 2007 Looking Graphics”?

I consider this as your personal opinion. Have you seen ALL the videos and screenshots I published here:

https://www.indiedb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque

If you take a look at the character models, they are good looking yes, however you can't compare my character's models with the latest Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Also the animations are very fluid and well done, as I am using purchased Motion Capture Files.

Also the maps I am creating based on Counter Strike, as it is a well loved game by many shooter fans.

You are the first person that says my game looks terrible. Many people, many respected indie game developers praised my game on all it's aspects.

You can't judge my game by these development builds I am creating. These empty maps are just for testing the programming.

And if you are seeing a lot of pixelated edges on the graphics, it is because I intentionaly turned off all the anti aliasing of my graphics card do gain in performance, as my notebook is a bit old (from 2010).

Last but not least, I am not Arab, I am Brazilian from Arabic Ascendance (my father is from Palestine).

Graphics are not what make a game good or bad, many indie games created retro looking pixel art games and were suscessfull.

It seems like you are ashamed of Arabic Game Developers, and this is not good. We need to help each other. This is true for ALL indie developers out there, ALL indie games made by few persons (one or two devs) will always be more simple than AAA games done by thousands of people, however, many of these indie games are more fun and more creative than many AAA games.

Assalamu Alaykum Wa Rahmat Allah Wa Barakatu.

https://sites.google.com/view/udkultimate/

udkultimate

Author

January 07, 2020 10:24 AM

Multiplayer SplitScreen and all its glory running on Xbox 360 RGH:

https://indiedb.com/games/fursan-al-...0-multiplayer1

https://sites.google.com/view/udkultimate/

udkultimate

Author

January 09, 2020 04:37 PM

Fursan al-Aqsa Dev Blog #7 - Making Off SplitScreen Multiplayer

In this article I discuss the technical details of how I implemented the Multiplayer with SplitScreen for my game.

https://www.indiedb.com/games/fursan...en-multiplayer

It's worth a reading

https://sites.google.com/view/udkultimate/

udkultimate

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January 12, 2020 11:17 PM

@SufianDira Jazak Allah Khayr Akhy.

No problems, it is very good to hear others opinions.

I know my game is a bit outdated (graphics), but I have done it purposelly, for many reasons. First of all, as you know, working as a solo dev is IMPOSSIBLE model, create ALL the assets by yourself. I already commented that I am using purchased 3D models from marketplaces like Turbosquid, CGTrader, and others. Many of these 3D models are yes, from 2009-2011, I purchased them many years ago, while I used to work with 3D for TV advertising. So whenever I began to develop my game, I already had a extensive library of 3D models and assets (even tough the marjority of these assets are a bit outdated). I could purchase new assets, more updadted models, however, I thought a lot about this, and in the end, I decided to stick with these old gen assets for many reasons.

First of all for final game size. I personally dont get new games, because, they are huge!!!! I only have 75GB of free space on my HD. These new games get up 50GB. And imagine the download time, especially here in Brazil!

Second, is the performance. I recently downloaded Yokaa Layle, for free on EPIC Games Store. And that game is fantastically optimized, and is only 5GB, and it run fine on my PC from 2010 (even tough it run at 25 fps with some small glitches).

If my game, on my old PC runs at almost 60fps, so what about these current gen pcs. It will run flawlessly and smoothly, and people will love to play this game, as it will have almost zero loading times, and for an action game, speed is all.

Also, because my game runs on Playstation 3 and Xbox360, also at 60 fps. Last, but not least, I like kinda retro 3D games graphics.

About the game itself, I would like to make it free, for the sake of Allah and Palestine Cause, however, because of personal (financial) questions, I will ask for a very small ammount, just to cover my development costs (because I have a wife and daughter to take care).

But the first episode, EPISODE 0 (kinda demo), I will release on a Pay what you want model, minimum value of zero, so you can still download and play for free.

The next upcoming episodes, I plan to sell from $1.99 to $2.49. Every episode comes with a Lot of Content, Maps, Missions, Weapons and so on (including multiplayer).

I plan to make 8 episodes on total.

Last, but not least, however purchases each episode of this game, will receive the 3 versions (PC, PS3 and Xbox360), like Pay for 1 and receive 3.

Assalamu Alaykom dear brother. And tahyat to the brothers of Jordan!

https://sites.google.com/view/udkultimate/

udkultimate

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February 01, 2020 02:47 AM

Fursan al-Aqsa - Enemies AI Update

https://www.indiedb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque/videos/18-fursan-al-aqsa-enemies-ai-update

This video shows the updated enemies AI in action, alongside the preview of a very fun new game mode: "Blow Them Up"

Let's frag!

In the next post I will reveal the tech detail of this new AI system I created using Kismet, the Visual Programming Language of Unreal Engine 3.