“The best people to write the stories that you want to see are often going to be you.” To that end, they saw their job as making their platform as accessible and easy to get into as they could, by making it highly automated and visual. “It’s the same thread from Squire to One More Multiverse,” Alfageeh says. Let’s make our own world.”Īs the company developed, they decided that a major part of their purpose would be the empowerment of storytellers in general. And we were like, we want more of that, and we can’t wait for Marvel to do it, we can’t wait for Disney to do it. “Then we read this one book called City of Brass that was Game of Thrones-level politics and drama, but based on a mythology that we recognized as Muslim kids. “We couldn’t see ourselves in our favorite TV shows, in our favorite books and movies,” Alfageeh remembers.

The company, which in addition to producing games of its own offers its community of users the tools to turn their own tabletop role playing games into online video game adventures, began out of a desire by three designers to tell stories for themselves. She and friends Thariq Shihipar and Hisham Bedri are the co-cofounders of an online video game company called One More Multiverse that is due to release its first game this week. But her day job for some years now has been as a video game designer and creative director. Writer/artist Sara Alfageeh is known to many for her work on books like her newly-minted Harvey Award-winning YA fantasy graphic novel Squire.

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