![]() I won that tournament, so the glasses stayed, and the dream of aviation went. I needed glasses, and refused to wear them out of fear I could never become a pilot, until my parents convinced me that wearing glasses would make me more intimidating at the elementary school chess tournament. When I was a wee six-year-old, I had the dream of becoming a pilot, but I’d been told that glasses would disqualify you. So, inspired by a thousand hours of Flight Simulator and a healthy amount of sadness, I guess I decided to actually train and become a pilot. ![]() It was a remarkable year for me in work, but my personal life felt more like a train derailing off a bridge into a ship that sinks onto a submarine causing it to launch a ballistic missile into an airplane, and then the airplane crashes onto the derailed train, and the plane is carrying a nuclear bomb. My post- Vlambeer sabbatical year turned into more work than I’ve ever done before-but for the first time in my life as a game developer I can’t actually talk about a lot of the things I’m doing. Second, I’ve been a bit of a mess so this list is going to be a bit of a mess.įor me, it was an odd year: I started The Habibis with Fawzi Mesmar and Osama Dorias, a games podcast by three Arab game developers, and finally found the Arab home in games that I’d unwittingly been looking for. Halo Infinite does not have co-op campaign yet, which means we’re waiting until we can play it together. Since I was 13 years old, I have played every single Halo campaign we could with the same group of friends, in co-op. You can find him on Twitter at is over, for better or worse. ![]() Rami Ismail is a game development consultant, game developer podcaster, and a budding airplane pilot.
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