Hey Tumblr friends!

So if you remember, I once posted about Dreams on a Pillow for their first crowdfunding campaign two years ago, an old school adventure game about a palestinian folktale around the Nakba, directed by a West Bank, award-winning palestinian, Rasheed Abueideh.

It's about a young woman who, in the panic of the Nakba, takes hold of a pillow instead of her baby, who she mistakenly leaves behind. She tries to escape and survive in a shifting tapestry of past and present. It's about celebrating palestinian culture: both its beauty and its grief.

The game has a Steam page and is well underway, but, as you may be aware, the cost of making a game (as well as the cost of existing as a Palestinian) has severely exploded, which has led to a second crowdfunding campaign to actually complete the project.

Two points of order:

even if the full budget isn't being hit, every last bit of money will go to the project regardless, and the game will be released eventually no matter what. So even if the campaign is indeed struggling a bit, you can still help and it will still make a world of difference.

If that means anything to the people reading: I can personally vouch for the project. I have talked with Rasheed myself several times, I'm involved with one of the organizations that supports this game, the team is very serious, and there are many veteran game professionals with decades of experience supporting this project and vouching for it as well. It's going to be a deeply beautiful, heartbreaking experience that the world really needs to see right now.

Theres moreeee, this is so so good.. it makes me emotional realizing that these kids are on the path to being fluent cherokee speakers and will be able to keep the language going.

This family is a part of the little cherokee seeds program, creating new first language Cherokee speakers by paying mothers to just bring their babies and craft and cook and speak cherokee with cherokee elders all day. There are only 1500 first language Cherokee speakers, most of them over 65. They also take donations if you want to help keep them going and doing the extremely important work they do!!