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Founder of Palm Grove Software, a one man tiny garage based in Casablanca, Morocco.

After a couple of years in the industry as a junior programmer : six months as a scripter in 2001 on Fahrenheit : Indigo prophecy at Quantic Dream in Paris, France, and a year and a half as a junior programmer, 2008 : Ubisoft Casablanca on the 2D HUD for the whole project production cycle : Prince of Persia, the forgotten sands on the Nintendo DS.

After some more years also as web/mobile programmer for different local clients, I decided to go the Indie road with that scattered experience over time, and give it a try with my own projects.

Palm Grove Software was founded in late 2011, and released a first project on iOS/Android platforms : an Arabic language alphabet learning app.

Currently working on my first videogame for PC.

Member Blogs

I couldn't make it to Train Jam and GDC because I am from Morocco (?)

Posted by khalil arafan on Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:07:00 EDT in Indie

the story in detail of how this year, I heard of the diversity program to attend Train Jam event in Chicago, from a fellow game dev friend who encouraged me to give it a try. I was selected. Visa was not granted from Casablanca embassy unfortunately.

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Making my first game : a 20+ years quest. Level 4 : GOING INDIE !

Posted by khalil arafan on Mon, 26 Jan 2015 03:41:00 EST in Audio, Business/Marketing, Design, Programming, Production, Art, Console/PC, Indie, Smartphone/Tablet

Parts 6/7: Creating my own one man garage company, first mobile app and first game.

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Making my first game : a 20+ years quest. Level 3.

Posted by khalil arafan on Thu, 15 Jan 2015 03:45:00 EST in Programming, Console/PC, Indie

Parts 4/5 : University years, back to Morocco and landing my second job in the industry.

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making my first videogame : a 20+ years quest. Level 2.

Posted by khalil arafan on Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:30:00 EST in Programming, Console/PC, Indie

parts 3/4 : Studies abroad in France, associate degree in computer science and landing my first job in the industry.

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Making my first game : a 20+ years quest.

Posted by khalil arafan on Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:03:00 EDT in Design, Programming, Art, Console/PC, Indie

The story of my journey since I first knew my purpose in life, how I almost lost it, and how I hanged in there for more than 20 years to make it happen. Making it a matter of Death or Life is what it took to become an Indie. Especially being Moroccan.

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Making my first game : a 20+ years quest.

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Hey Thanks r nWorking on ...
Hey Thanks r nWorking on it, since very busy with the game release, stay tuned for next parts, long story too, that was just the beginning, I tried my best to keep it short and to the point, trust me on that : r n r nCheers r n r ...