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The Arab League of Misfits

@arabmisfits.com

🃏​ A satirical 1v1 card duel game where you weaponize Arabic stereotypes and family gossip to humiliate your opponent. 👡 Expect flying footwear & chaotic cafe politics. 🖥️ In development by a loud pool of actual Arab misfits 🌐 https://arabmisfits.com/

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The Arab League of Misfits@arabmisfits.com · 6d ago

🛵 Greets you by day and robs you by night. Meet Neighborhood Jagal, our final Shatara Usloob card reveal, based on Lebanese classic stereotype of street-smart show-off. The team is now shifting focus to preparing our Gamescom showcase build and a potential public Steam demo. #indiegame #ALoM

A square comic book style illustration of a confident Arab man with a thick black beard and aviator sunglasses sitting on a blue motor scooter. He wears an unbuttoned red patterned shirt and brown pants. He spins a key ring on his right index finger with Arabic text reading "وش!" to indicate a whooshing motion. The background features a yellow textured wall with torn paper flyers, a blue street sign reading "شارع الحمراء RUE HAMRA" in Arabic and English, and a dark wooden window shutter.
The Arab League of Misfits@arabmisfits.com · 7d ago

"A soft plea that carries a heavy omen." Peak maternal drama treating a canceled lunch like an absolute catastrophe with "Ya Latif!". A card illustration featuring wonderful and authentic Palestinian tatreez from the archival work of Nabil Anani & Sliman Mansour via Tirazain. #indiegame #ALoM

A square comic book style illustration showing an older Arab woman wearing a dark red and black thobe with traditional Palestinian tatreez embroidery. She is reacting with extreme theatrical shock, holding her right hand to her chest with a gasping, wide-eyed expression. A jagged burst of glowing orange and yellow light radiates behind her to emphasize the drama. In her left hand, she holds a smartphone displaying a text message that reads "Mama habibti, I can't come to the family lunch today but pack me a tabarwer of your warak enab". The background features a muted domestic interior with framed pictures and a bookshelf, shaded with prominent halftone dot textures.
The Arab League of Misfits@arabmisfits.com · 7d ago

"A soft plea that carries a heavy omen." Peak maternal drama treating a canceled lunch like an absolute catastrophe with "Ya Latif!". A card illustration featuring wonderful and authentic Palestinian tatreez from the archival work of Nabil Anani & Sliman Mansour via Tirazain. #indiegame #ALoM

A square comic book style illustration showing an older Arab woman wearing a dark red and black thobe with traditional Palestinian tatreez embroidery. She is reacting with extreme theatrical shock, holding her right hand to her chest with a gasping, wide-eyed expression. A jagged burst of glowing orange and yellow light radiates behind her to emphasize the drama. In her left hand, she holds a smartphone displaying a text message that reads "Mama habibti, I can't come to the family lunch today but pack me a tabarwer of your warak enab". The background features a muted domestic interior with framed pictures and a bookshelf, shaded with prominent halftone dot textures.
The Arab League of Misfits@arabmisfits.com · last wk.

"Heard the talk, lost the translation." Unintelligible Dialect features Shahi al-Alla as a potion that induces caffeine jitters and hyper-local dialect fluency. Honestly, this thick, foamy brew might be the reason the rest of the Arab world struggles to keep up with Lybian slang. #indiegame #ALoM

A square comic book style illustration featuring a close-up of a traditional metal teapot pouring a dark stream of tea from a height into two small glass cups sitting on a brass tray. The cups are filled with dark tea topped with a thick, frothy beige foam. Around the vertical stream of poured tea, concentric oval sound ripples radiate outward, containing Arabic Libyan slang text reading "شن الدوة؟", "كنك؟", and "والله كساد".
The Arab League of Misfits@arabmisfits.com · last wk.

"Heard the talk, lost the translation." Unintelligible Dialect features Shahi al-Alla as a potion that induces caffeine jitters and hyper-local dialect fluency. Honestly, this thick, foamy brew might be the reason the rest of the Arab world struggles to keep up with Lybian slang. #indiegame #ALoM

A square comic book style illustration featuring a close-up of a traditional metal teapot pouring a dark stream of tea from a height into two small glass cups sitting on a brass tray. The cups are filled with dark tea topped with a thick, frothy beige foam. Around the vertical stream of poured tea, concentric oval sound ripples radiate outward, containing Arabic Libyan slang text reading "شن الدوة؟", "كنك؟", and "والله كساد".
The Arab League of Misfits@arabmisfits.com · last wk.

On top of our main carrying traits known as Usloob, cards also carry a Regional Bloc tag to fuel network mechanics like Call In and add cross-cultural satire: Nile & Couscous Accord, Za’atar Union, Oud Cooperation Council, and Mahjar Coalition (from top left to bottom right). #indiegame #ALoM

A black square image displaying a two-by-two grid of four solid white flat icons representing regional blocs. The top left features a traditional Tajine cooking pot with a conical lid resting on a shallow base. The top right shows a shallow plate filled with Zaatar, featuring a textured serving swirl in the center. The bottom left displays a Mabkhara, a tall geometric incense burner, with two wisps of smoke rising from the top. The bottom right features a classic rectangular travel suitcase with reinforced corners and two vertical fastening straps
Nazih Fares 🔜 Gamescom@nazihfares.com · 2w ago

We also went with better iconography to represent the 7 Usloob which are in order of appearance Sumood ( Resilience), Shatara (wittiness), Tarab (music enchantment), Tijara (commerce), Diyafa (Hospitality), 'Ashira (loyalty) and Nakhwa (chivalry).

The Arab League of Misfits@arabmisfits.com · 2w ago

🍬 Gum chewed longer than promises. Under-the-Table Gum is today's Trap card reveal from the Za'atar Union bloc and Shatara Usloob. This sticky trap triggers on the opponent's use of a defense card, to completely negate its effect with a sticky relic of school desk history. #indiegame #ALoM

A square comic book style illustration showing a close-up of a wooden school desk interior. A sweating person's hand has accidentally touched a massive, ancient wad of pink chewing gum molded into the shape of a hot air balloon, stretching sticky, web-like strings of gum between their fingers and the artifact. The background shows a classroom wall with Arabic posters
Nazih Fares 🔜 Gamescom@nazihfares.com · 2w ago

My next Egyptian muse is going to be yet another Egyptian actor: the iconic Rushdy Abaza. Other than having an insane record acting appearence in over 150 movies, he was also known as the "the Don Juan of Egyptian cinema". Sadly like many actors of that generation, he was quite problematic.

A side-by-side comparison showing a black-and-white line drawing of a man's face on the left and the color reference photo of Rushdy Abaza on the right. Both images feature a man with thick dark hair, a thin mustache, and arched eyebrows, looking toward the right with an expressive, subtle smile.
Nazih Fares 🔜 Gamescom@nazihfares.com · 4w ago

My muse for our next @arabmisfits.com card illustration is going to be the known Egyptian comedian Adel Imam.

A photograph of an older man - the egyptian actor Adel Imam - with wide eyes and a surprised expression looking to the right, overlaid with thick black digital drawing lines. The drawn lines trace the contours of his head, facial features, and shoulders, and include structural guide lines intersecting vertically down the center of his face and horizontally across his eyes and mouth. He is wearing a grey suit jacket over a red sweater and a white collared shirt.