Our First Mobile Game!

I can't believe we actually made it this far, we managed to publish our first mobile game this week xD

we have been working on this game for almost a year as a senior graduation project !

when our interest shifted from robotics to gaming our dreams had a major shift too and we dreamed day and night of making the awesomest game in the history of the college !

and we came up with "Cooking Time" game !

main screen

now I know it may seem expected from girls to lean toward makeup and cooking games, me myself didn't think I would develop something like that when I'm 22 years old lol but when its fun and from the range of your interest pushing yourself forward gets easier 

we developed it to be the first Arabic game in Emirati accent so young users would love to explore something so close to what they know or see 

4 main Emirati dishes

Although we barely had the basic knowledge about gaming and almost zero skill with the massive resources on the Internet all excuses fade away 

and so we were so excited to check how well we did on the gaming field standards. Last week we participated in Mobile Application Contest (MAC) in Khalifa university-Abu Dhabi, and got 3rd prize with 10,000 AED and priceless positive feedback from users who loved the game ! ahhh so proud.

the marketing and documentation of our performance is what is left from the project and all our work will be paid afterwards !

I'm not gonna write much about the game so here is the game website where you can download the game and get more info:

http://cookingtimegame.weebly.com

it will soon be available in different app stores (as soon as we receive the approval)
and we have plans of offering different languages including English soon 

please support us, leave us your comments and enjoy our game! :)
Amna

Book Review: Married to A Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen

Over there on the shelf lays a book that caught my attention couple of times while passing by the supermarket

OMG ! a foreigner marring a Bedouin even I as an Arab wouldn't dare to do it !

she must be looking for adventure or seriously not aware of what she brought herself into !

these were my initial thoughts and my motivation to read this book

my mom rolled her eyes asking me to stop reading about women who had unusual marriages in their lives but that was exactly the beauty of it and the reason to make me excited about my own marriage!

was it bad?

was it good?

was it worth it ?!

"Married to A Bedouin"

 by Marguerite van Geldermalsen

Marguerite is a New Zealander tourist who was traveling down the Middle East with her girlfriend when they came to stop by Jordan down in Petra around the late 1970s !

Another proof that love can happen regardless of your background and language

She met Mohammed (her husband) who was good in English and ambitious bedouin she had the urge to extend her stay in Petra and fate played its magic on getting them two together despite the huge difference between their worlds

Through the book only two thought were on my mind

when she's gonna quit?; stating that she didn't speak Arabic

and how she maintained her health eating bread and sweet tea and little milk diary only?

but she lived through it all, learned the language, became a Bedouin, raise her 3 kids and lived the true adventure to retell it in her book

How a Bedouins society function is simply like this; people act based on their nature and without any formalities! seems too simple but its way simple for a complex person coming from a modern society

that what you will be living with Marguerite description about the people who lived there and I guess the childhood spirit and the curiosity helped her a lot  

The author included phrases written in Jordanian Bedouin accent which I had to read the line twice to get, but was a pleasant addition to her stories beside the personal pictures from Petra in the middle of the book !

All in all, I can't ruin this simple book anymore; she put it all beautifully and ended it beautifully too !

Peace,

Amna