Fawzi Mesmar (فوزي)

It feels incredible to finally announce that my book “Demystifying Creativity: On Originality in Game Development” will be released and published later this year by CRCPress (Taylor & Francis Group) Pre-orders are open wherever you get your books.

And now it's live! Poly Fighter is officially available in Early Access on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/... Shares are very appreciated! And if you jump in today and enjoy it, leaving a Steam review would help us tremendously! Thank you so much! ♥♥♥

It’s launch day for STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™. Three and a half years ago, Fuse Games was a handful of people with a big idea. Since then, our small team has poured their hard work and talent into our first game, and that big idea comes to life today. Here's a personal message from the team.

🎮Happy National Video Games Day!🎮 We’re celebrating today with 5 essential titles ever game developer should have on their shelf: Featuring books by: @fawzi.zone, @hannahnicklin.bsky.social, @celiahodent.com, @seriallabsound.bsky.social, and Spencer Bambrick

We are leaking The Arab League of Misfits trailer early to beat the Gamescom news rush next week. 🃏 Satirical 1v1 card battles with unique deck building system 🧭 A roguelite adventure mode 📚 Learn about Arabic culture along the way 🖥️ Wishlist on Steam now go.arabmisfits.com/steam #indiegames

Listen the chat with @fawzi.zone here 👇 youtu.be/I-Ci4FgENwQ?...

🎙️ GGJ Podcast Ep. 20! From a childhood of anime, Nintendo & Konami on MSX to leading some of gaming's biggest franchises, Fawzi shares his journey—and why great leadership starts with mentorship. 🎧 buff.ly/1Bvncbu Season One ends here. See you in October for Season Two! #GGJPodcast #GameDev

The roster for The Arab League of Misfits is finally assembled. This key art represents deep research into regional pop culture, history, memes to create unique character designs for this digital trading card game. Every fighter brings a piece of 17 local heritage to the table. #ALoM #indiegame

Based on popular demand, the audio version of my book Demystifying Creativity: on originality in game development will be available wherever you get your audio books on June 2nd (next week!) www.audible.com/pd/B0GP3J4MC...

Fishbowl is 💜 OUT NOW 💜 on PS5 & Steam (PC, Mac, Steam Deck) 🫧 Play at your own pace 🪞 No bad endings only different paths 🗓️ Do as much or as little as you are able to 🛏️ Remember, no matter what, you got through the day The two of us are in tears. Our game is out today! 🥹🥹

Mays and Ashraf have put so much love and effort into this game, honestly it's been so inspiring to witness. It's launching soon on PC and Xbox Series X|S. With the upcoming Kickstarter, they want to be able to bring it to more platforms and more languages, check it out!

Friends!!!!! 🥹💛 THE GOD IS OUT OF THE BAG! 💫 I’m so happy to announce that I’m the game director for this incredible game where you’ll play as Pythia, the priestess of Apollo’s oracle in Delphi! 😍 Demo available now! ✨ Wishlist & share! 💛

I’m not at GDC but my book is! Grab a copy while they still have them 🫶

It’s that time of the year again! I’ve put together my top games of the year list is up! fawzi.zone/2025/12/25/f...

Fishbowl 💜 APRIL 2026!!!!! Excited for all of you to dip your feet and hearts into the little world of Fishbowl where slice of life meets surreal. So happy to share that Fishbowl is going to be out on Steam & PS5 in April 2026. WISHLIST, SHARE, TELL YOUR MOM, TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

Can’t believe it’s been a year since my book Demystifying Creativity On originality in game development came out! Coincidentally it’s also Routledge Books end of year sales on select books with 20% off. If you haven’t already Get your copy here lnkd.in/dK62W7zi

Congrats to my old comrades at DICE and Battlefield studios on #Battlefield6 launch day! What an incredible achievement! I know I’ll be spending years enjoying the fruit of all of your hard work! See you all on the battlefield!

It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter! We are HeartLoop Games! ♥

In collaboration with the Abu Dhabi arabic language centre, a department of culture and tourism abu dhabi, I'm happy to announce the release date of the arabic version of my book "Demysitifying Creativity" on September 15th during Congress of Arabic & Creative Industries.

Very excited for friends at DICE and BF Studios for the reveal of Battlefield 6! Looks super and can’t wait to play! See you all on the Battlefiled 🔥 youtu.be/pgNCgJG0vnY?...

I’m looking for gameplay programmers animators and VFX artist to come work with me on Beyond Good and Evil 2! Check out all available jobs and come join us make something real special! www.linkedin.com/company/ubis...

🌙✨ Big news! A Heavy Morning is part of the Moonlite Madness Summer Showcase, hosted by @nevermoreniche.bsky.social ! Come discover all the incredible indie gems featured in the #MoonliteMadnessShowcase, thank you for the spot!🎮 #AHeavyMorning #indiegames

Had a lovely interview with the peeps at GI where I discussed creative sobriety and my book! Thank you for the write up!

Yallah 🙌🥳

Lots of games to love at Kee3 but the ones I’m most looking forward to are - Resident Evil 9 - Persona 4 R - Mixtape

Just saw a great woman-made game coming soon that deals with depression called Heavy Morning Definitely going to try this out. store.steampowered.com/app/3509400/...

So proud of being able to support Mays and her team with such an important game 🙌

managed to get @fawzi.zone’s latest book just before my trip, looking forward to the insights on the plane and train rides

How people would describe our #indiegame: - Overcooked meets Supermarket Simulator 🍽️ - Judging when people buy 23 screwdrivers" simulator 🪛 - University group projects rage 🤼 store.steampowered.com/app/3358560/...

My talk on creative sobriety from last GDC is now live and available for all to see! gdcvault.com/play/1035110...

The people who get it, get it 💅🏻 #HardwareStoreSimulator comes out this Friday on Early Access! ✨🛍️ 🎮 #gaming

I’ll soon be available for game design, creative direction, and consultancy opportunities while I develop my own projects. I’m also open to paid speaking engagements if you know of any! If you’d be willing to share/repost this, or just send a kind word, I’d truly appreciate it. Thank you! ♥

This better be good @fawzi.zone. I had to bend my policy and import it from the US. (I'm kidding I'm sure it's great)

Me after responding “Sounds good” to an email that ruined my day

❤️Switch 2❤️

To all celebrating, happy Eid! عيد مبارك و كل عام وأنتم بألف خير جميعا 🙏

Join Naoe for a moment of peace and quiet as she paints the playful tanuki 🌸 Our coallaboration with Lofi Girl 'Stealthy beats to relax to' is now live. 🎧 Available now on YouTube and all streaming platforms. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwLv...

Fawzi Mesmar (@fawzi.zone) – Creative Director at UBISOFT (@ubisoft.com) – will speak at INDIGO about Demystifying Creativity. "Exploring the origins of fresh ideas and how originality shapes game development." INDIGO 2025, May 27-28, Rotterdam. Info: indigoshowcase.nl #INDIGO2025 #gamedev #talks

Lovely write up about my talk! Thank you! I love how the author took the learnings and applied that on examples of her own (all the ones in the article weren’t ones I made in the talk!) Makes me feel that the message was received! Thank you 🙏

@fawzi.zone @writualmagic.bsky.social @bogboogie.bsky.social @liamesler.bsky.social Discuss Multiclassing Careers in #GameDev at #GDC25

What a fantastic group!!! @liamesler.bsky.social @writualmagic.bsky.social @bogboogie.bsky.social @fawzi.zone