Factsheet

Developer:
udkultimate
Based in Brazil

Release date:
April 17 2022

Platforms:
Windows
Xbox 360
PlayStation 3

Website:
fursanaqsa.com

Available From:
$14.99 - Steam

Description

Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque® is a Third Person Action Game on which 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 the prison, seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland, by joining a new Palestinian Resistance Movement called Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque®. Fursan al-Aqsa® is a Registered Trademark of Nidal Nijm Games © 2022, all rights reserved.

History

About the Game

Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque® is a game which addresses the Israel x Palestine conflict from a Palestinian perspective, breaking the cliché of portraying 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. 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, which kills innocent children and civilians, is NOT Terrorism, that Palestinian Resistance is NOT Terrorism!

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The Team

This game is being developed since 2017 by one person (me, Nidal Nijm, an Unreal Engine Licensed Developer), in a modified version of the UDK Engine (Unreal Engine 3). But I can say that the project as a whole was born in 2009, whenever I started my studies (alone) on game development. But at that time I used another engine, the FPS Creator Engine. However, the game in its current form was born in August 2017.

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Gameplay and Story details

Story - 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 the prison, seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland, by joining a new Palestinian Resistance Movement called Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque®. During his stay in prison, Ahmad met the leader of that group, Abu Ubayda, and learned about the story behind Fursan al-Aqsa group, that this group was preparing a major military operation against Israel, "Operation Muhammad al-Falastini", however, the Mossad (National Intelligence Agency of Israel) was aware of this Operation, which resulted in its failure, the death of all its members and arrest of its leader, Abu Ubayda. Ahmad, decides to complete this Operation alone, which is when he receives all the instructions from the mission by Abu Ubayda, who reveals to Ahmad the location of a backpack with some equipment that will help him in this mission. Then the game starts.

Gameplay - Being a gamer since when I know myself, I looked for inspiration in the best action games in the industry, in addition to the inspirations I already mentioned at the beginning. The game draws heavily inspiration from the Classics Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark (N64), with many mission objectives to complete on each "Mission", such as destroying security cameras, sabotaging some israeli equipment, finding documents that reveal more details about the game’s plot, planting bombs, invading Israeli bases, finding and murdering a specific enemy, rescuing Palestinian Civilians, hijacking vehicles, taking down planes, and so on.

Features

• Third-Person Shooter
• Intense Urban Warfare Combat
• Many Gameplay Modes
• Ranking System
• Realistic Weapons
• Driveable Vehicles
• Missions across real places in Palestine
• Local Split-Screen Multiplayer
• Xbox 360® Gamepad support on PC
• Classical Palestinian Resistance Songs
• Tactical Espionage Action
• Stealth Mechanics
• Alternate between 1st / 3rd Person View
• English, Arabic, Portuguese and Chinese Localization

Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Credits

Nidal Nijm
Solo Developer - One Man Army

Contact

Support
nidalnijmgames@gmail.com

Homepage
fursanaqsa.com

Indie DB
indiedb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque

Twitter
twitter.com/udkultimate

Facebook
facebook.com/fursanaqsa

Youtube
youtube.com/channel/UCqXFPcoS4tFnFzM4TaR1HoQ

Press Releases
gamespress.com/Fursan-al-Aqsa---The-Knights-of-the-Al-Aqsa-Mosque

Itch.io
nidal-nijm-games.itch.io/fursan-al-aqsa-demo

Gamejolt
gamejolt.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-demo/573682

Age Rating
portal.mj.gov.br/ClassificacaoIndicativa/jsps/JogosJustificativaForm.do?select_action=&tbClassificacaoJogo_Analise=0&tbdocumento_numerodoc=08017.001703/2019-04

Nidal Nijm Games
sites.google.com/view/udkultimate