The War Inside

↓ The story within
01 / The visionMemory. Breath. Humanity.

This is not
a war game.
It’s a game
about memory.

Films compete with games.
Games compete with sleep.

The War Inside channels that attention into empathy: a narrative game that aims to teach a generation about catastrophic destruction and death through a child’s experience in Gaza.

Developed in consultation with a trauma therapist, it also aspires to support children in Gaza and other communities facing trauma.

No weapons. No enemies. No combat. Just memory, breath, and the war that moved inside.

Format

2D cinematic adventure

Experience

45–90 minutes

Target platforms

PC · Console · Mobile

Built with

Unity / URP

A mother embraces her child inside a tent.

The reunion

Concept art · Deck, page 19

02 / The peopleCraft meets conviction.

Human stories
in experienced hands.

A multidisciplinary team spanning creative direction, game design, engineering, production, and illustration.

Doaa Ghandour

Creative director · Studio founder

Doaa Ghandour

Creating for her people.

In Gaza, Doaa was the lead designer and CEO of a video game publisher that created a range of games, including games that taught children how to stay safer from COVID-19.

After losing much of her family and escaping to Cairo, Doaa now wants to create games that help those same children process the trauma they have experienced in recent years, while helping Western audiences understand what has happened in Gaza.

The War Inside will be the launch title for Bayan Games, her new Palestinian video game studio.

03 / The opportunityHelp bring this story to life.

The next chapter
starts here.

Support the proposed vertical slice: a focused, playable expression of the story, art direction, and core gameplay.

Download the investor deck PDF
Proposed budget$275kUSD · vertical-slice estimate
6months
Planned development
Programming
$80,000
Game & narrative design
$60,000
Art
$60,000
Production
$50,000
Audio
$20,000
Playtesting
$5,000

Planning figures from the draft deck. The original roadmap lists a Q1 2026 start; current timing and funding terms remain to be confirmed. The $250,000 development subtotal is treated here as a total, consistent with the stated $275,000 estimate.