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A place for thinking out loud about how things get made, funded, and shipped — including the game I’m building, the books I’m publishing, and everything that turns an idea into something real.

See also Karkabakarkaba
Karkaba is a player-versus-player mobile game built in Arabic, for Arabic players — not translated into it after the fact. As far as I can tell, it’s the first of its kind. why Most games that reach the region arrive already finished, with Arabic bolted on at the end. The jokes don’t land, the rhyth… and booksbooks
Salsabil: The Blue Gold novel — in progress In a near-future Arabian desert, fresh water has become the most valuable commodity on earth. A single liter sells for more than gold, guarded by the powerful and out of reach of everyone else. A water-factory janitor, locked alone in a sealed motel room, ….