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Aug 21 2012
Azerbaijan Developers Revisit the Nagorno-Karabakh War
August 21, 2012
A new video game developed by a 19-year-old student and promoted by
the Azerbaijani government lets players change the results of the
Spring 1992 capture of the Nagorno Karabakhi town of Shusha by
Armenian and Nagorno Karabakhi forces. The battle marked the turning
point in the conflict for control of the territory.
The game is called Under Occupation: Shusha (or Ä°Å?gal Altında: Å?uÅ?a),
and lets players jump into the boots of an Azerbaijani soldier who
must battle Armenian soldiers in house-to-house battles to retake the
city. The game was created by Farid Hagverdiev, a 19-year-old student
at Baku's State Oil Academy.
Hagverdiev spent two years developing the game with other students at
the academy and was inspired by several team-based first-person
shooters including Call of Duty and Counter-Strike. It is also the
first video game developed solely by Azerbaijani citizens.
"By creating the game we wanted to support the patriotic spirit in our
youth, which I hope we accomplished successfully," he told
EurasiaNet.org. The game can be downloaded for free, and has even
managed to capture the attention of the government, who apparently
find it inspiring...
They like it so much that the country's Ministry of Youth and Sports
recently organized a presentation of Under Occupation earlier this
summer at the Hyatt Regency in Baku.
Hagverdiev and his team of developers are already thinking about
making another game; though this time they wouldn't mind making some
money off it.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/08/21/azerbaijan-developers-revisit-nagorno-karabakh-war
Aug 21 2012
Azerbaijan Developers Revisit the Nagorno-Karabakh War
August 21, 2012
A new video game developed by a 19-year-old student and promoted by
the Azerbaijani government lets players change the results of the
Spring 1992 capture of the Nagorno Karabakhi town of Shusha by
Armenian and Nagorno Karabakhi forces. The battle marked the turning
point in the conflict for control of the territory.
The game is called Under Occupation: Shusha (or Ä°Å?gal Altında: Å?uÅ?a),
and lets players jump into the boots of an Azerbaijani soldier who
must battle Armenian soldiers in house-to-house battles to retake the
city. The game was created by Farid Hagverdiev, a 19-year-old student
at Baku's State Oil Academy.
Hagverdiev spent two years developing the game with other students at
the academy and was inspired by several team-based first-person
shooters including Call of Duty and Counter-Strike. It is also the
first video game developed solely by Azerbaijani citizens.
"By creating the game we wanted to support the patriotic spirit in our
youth, which I hope we accomplished successfully," he told
EurasiaNet.org. The game can be downloaded for free, and has even
managed to capture the attention of the government, who apparently
find it inspiring...
They like it so much that the country's Ministry of Youth and Sports
recently organized a presentation of Under Occupation earlier this
summer at the Hyatt Regency in Baku.
Hagverdiev and his team of developers are already thinking about
making another game; though this time they wouldn't mind making some
money off it.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/08/21/azerbaijan-developers-revisit-nagorno-karabakh-war