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Mohamed

@moemalik.bsky.social

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writer / socials @ nice dream games - BAFTA-winning Before Your Eyes + Goodnight Universe (2025) / Los Angeles / you’ll be aight.

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Dec 3

SOME GOOD NEWS!!!!

SO Honored and STOKED that Malik (@maliksquared.bsky.social) and I are on the 2024 Muslim List with our pilot DO NOT COPY. Infinite gratitude to @theblcklst.bsky.social and MPAC for spotlighting Muslim writers and this script.

Love to the all homies who got us here. ❤️

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Nice Dream @nicedreamgames.com · 5d

The Goodnight Universe demo got the most beautiful review ever…we cried…

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 7d

Again, selling some illustrations! Most of these illustrations are priced down and ranging from $50-100. I loved making every single one of these drawings and would love to see them in a new loving home ❤️

Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 9d

Just a few drawings I have available for sale on my ko-fi if you're looking for some art or ways to support artists especially as the holiday season approaches! <3 ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...

Coloured pencil drawing of an edgy shoulder length haired woman sitting on a rock in the middle of the forest looking out pensively.

6 panelled ink drawing of a girl getting ready

an ink drawing showing the back of a girl who's underwater. She is surrounded by fish and seaweed.

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · 8d

We’re already a hit with babies!

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Malik @maliksquared.bsky.social · 8d

Featured on Cheap Ass Gamer…mama we made it

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · 8d

streets are calling this the most baby game of all time

store.steampowered.com/app/4012220/...

Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · 8d

PLAY OUR DEMO!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice Dream @nicedreamgames.com · 8d

The demo for Goodnight Universe, our follow up to Before Your Eyes, is out NOW on Steam! 💫

Peep below for a sneak peek, then go download the demo and experience what being a psychic baby feels like (it’s really, REALLY cool) 🌟

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · 17d

Cousins ?

Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

We been talking about the wrong Metal Gear Solid remake…

Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jul 31

11.11

return to baby

see you there friends

Nice Dream @nicedreamgames.com · Jul 31

Fresh off the Nintendo Direct...

✨ GOODNIGHT UNIVERSE ✨ launches NOVEMBER 11th on PC, Switch 2, Switch 1, PS5 & Xbox Series XIS!

Play as a psychic baby, escape an evil tech CEO, and with your family's help, discover who you're meant to be.

Wishlist: bit.ly/gnu-game

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Akupara Games @akuparagames.bsky.social · Jun 27

🌱Mutazione has 999 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam! @gutefabrik.bsky.social

If you're looking for a deep story where 🏘️small-town gossip meets the supernatural, join 15-year-old Kai on an adventure to care for her ailing grandfather.

Or leave us a review, if you haven't yet? 💘

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 30

“yeah I played the neo-noir point and click masterpiece that is PHOENIX SPRINGS. how could you tell?”

Seriously…buy it now.

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 30

The @lostincult.co.uk EDITIONS for Hob’s Barrow is what put it on my radar. Two days later, finished the game and immediately returned to Lost in Cult for a pre order. A total gem. Big big recommend for any point and click / horror aficionado.

Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is 45% off during the Steam Summer Sale!

Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.

What lies beneath the soil?

Find out here: t.co/nguGAst9vv

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 30

As someone who recently came across mosquito dunks online (and ended up buying some as a result lol) after going all my life without knowing about them…you might be onto something

Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 17

Jesse a real hooper. This was a mistake.

Jesse Vitelli @mamavitelli.bsky.social · Jun 17

Mario Kart World with friends. Open to whoever

JX4 7XL

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 17

Pulling up (moe)

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Nice Dream @nicedreamgames.com · Jun 16

How you strike ~fear~ into your sister's date in our new indie game (you can't talk but you have psychic powers 🌀)

We made Before Your Eyes and we can’t wait for you to all pay GOODNIGHT UNIVERSE, coming out on Steam and the Nintendo Switch 2 later this year! Wishlist now 💫

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 16

God bless our fathers Ken 🙏🏾

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 16

I came across Ken’s writing for the first time when he dropped this lovely, moving piece about his father and Last of Us 2. It was 6 months after my own father had passed, and the game stirred up so many feelings for me…above all else both the game and this piece made miss my dad a whole lot.

i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · Jun 4

Today’s half a decade in the dead dad club, which feels wild to say out loud. Miss you, old man.

$I’m six months removed from my dad’s passing, and that’s barely a fraction of the life I lived with him. But now that time has passed, I find I’m acclimating to what it means for him to be gone. I don’t instinctively assume the texts I get might be from him when I hear my phone go off. I google what to do when my car isn’t behaving the way it should. And every now and then, I’ll get through most of my day and realize I hadn’t thought about his passing the way it occupied much of my days back in June. Moments that were once vivid are starting to seem foggy. I remember my dad’s southern drawl as he joked about learning to knit during our last conversation in his kitchen, the smell of the cigarettes he insisted on smoking into his final days despite being in the late stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. I remember the momentary panic of walking through his hallway and nearly stepping on the tube connected to his oxygen tank. These are my last memories with him, but sometimes they only come in flashes. I’m having to come to grips with the idea that eventually people in our lives will become memories, and with each passing day, memories fade$

People like to joke that the new year means nothing, despite the weight we put on it. It’s supposed to be the point where we have a reset, and everything bad that’s happening in one year will magically end when the clock hits midnight. But we know that’s not actually true. The coronavirus doesn’t magically disappear when we hit January 1. But what it does change is the way we refer to events of the past, and I keep thinking about how the way I talk about my dad’s death is going to change multiple times over the rest of my life. It means that I’ll have to start telling people my father passed away a year ago, instead of “back in June.” Then eventually it will be “in 2020.” Then someday, I’ll tell someone it happened “in my late 20s.”

That’s why I’m hesitant to put the guitar down, leave the house, and move forward. As long as time stands still, I can stay within this moment. Saying something happened weeks or months ago doesn’t feel as heavy as saying it was years or even decades ago.

but grief is not a linear path forward. I don’t feel the compulsion to cross the country and fight someone or blame them. But I don’t think I’m ready to put the guitar down. Not just yet.

I think I’ll sit in this room for a little bit longer. Long enough for it to feel right. I’ll run my hands over the guitar’s strings, take in the view of the country skyline. When I’m ready, I’ll rest the guitar against the window sill, pick up my pack, then head in whatever direction calls me.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Jun 15

❤️ love today to everyone who has had to bury their father alone in a strange land because of the war, or who hasn't been able to bury them or locate their remains because of the war, or who hasn't been able to visit their grave because of the war ❤️

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Nice Dream @nicedreamgames.com · Jun 14

One of the great things about making a physic baby game is having a million reasons to craft cute baby animations.

This little fella is who you’ll see with our “Headphones Recommended” message at the start of the game 🐣🎧

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 9

Gives me a wee bit of dopamine seeing films like The Lunchbox and Rogue Nation on the same list lmao

Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 9

Beatdown City Survivors fucking RIPS. Highlight from IGN Live. Even got this postcard and a sticker of a pigeon in timbs. You may get your ass whooped in Beatdown City but it doesn’t mean they won’t treat you right. Get on that demo ASAP.

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Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social · Jun 9

Holy shit. This is my local car wash. I am so so heartbroken. Fucking scum of the earth.

Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · Jun 9

Omg ice is now raiding a car wash in Culver City.

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ariana!! ✨🗡️ @arianamperry.com · Jun 7

HIROGAMI'S DEMO IS OUT RIGHT NOW ON STEAM!!!

this game is so beautiful and so fun, the devs really knocked it out of the park!! please be sure to give it a try!! 🥹 🪭 ✨

Kakehashi Games @kakehashigames.com · Jun 7

We just broke the news at #FutureGamesShow with our brand new trailer: #Hirogami's debut demo is LIVE NOW on Steam!

Tear into your first taste of origami platforming today - just don't crumple under the pressure. 😉

✨ Play now! hirogami-game.com ✨

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