Research
We study game science and development systematically — analyzing industry trends, developing new Arab-context methodologies, and building unified standards for quality game production in the region.
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🌍 Our Story
Building the Arab
Building the Arab
Gaming Future
Alaab Space is an educational platform dedicated to growing the game development industry in the Arab world — through rigorous research, faithful localization, and structured education.
Our Mission
We exist to make Arab game development world-class
The Arab world has an abundance of creative talent but faces a significant gap in structured, language-accessible resources for game development. Alaab Space was founded to close that gap — not by duplicating existing efforts, but by building the research and knowledge infrastructure the industry is missing.
We sit upstream of development studios, incubators, and individual developers: producing the standards, translated knowledge, and educational frameworks they all depend on.
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What We Do
Three pillars, one industry
Every activity at Alaab Space maps to one of three foundational work areas.
Localization
We translate technical terms, books, and global educational content into Arabic, always accounting for local cultural context — making world-class knowledge genuinely accessible to Arab developers.
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We build integrated educational programs covering all aspects of game development — from foundational theory to advanced techniques — grounded in our own research and translated global curricula.
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Scope & Focus
What we focus on — and what we don't
We do not provide direct support to developers or their games. Our role is educational and pre-development: building the knowledge foundation that the entire ecosystem depends on. Several excellent organizations already specialize in developer support — we collaborate with that ecosystem rather than duplicate it.
What we do
Publish research, translate resources, build educational curricula, set Arab industry standards.
What we don't do
Fund games, publish games, provide per-developer support, or act as a studio or accelerator.
The Four Planets
Every game needs all four
Our work spans all four disciplines required to build any game — the development planets.
Designs
Mechanics, UX, level design, storytelling
Software
Engines, code, math, AI, networking
Visuals
2D/3D graphics, animation, UI, VFX
Sounds
SFX, music, voice acting, ambience
Principles
How we work
Evidence-first
Every educational recommendation is grounded in research, not opinion.
Arabic-first
We produce content in Arabic by default. English is secondary, never primary.
Open collaboration
Our site source is open. We partner with the ecosystem rather than compete with it.
Standards-driven
We build frameworks that scale beyond individual projects or studios.
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