Palestinian developer raises more than $200,000 to make Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the horrors of the 1948 Nakba

Rasheed Abueideh, a Palestinian game developer whose previous release Liyla and The Shadows of War followed a young girl trying to survive amidst the horrors of the 2014 Gaza War, has raised more than $200,000 to support a new project called Dreams on a Pillow, "a pseudo-3D stealth adventure" based on a Palestinian folk tale that takes place during the 1948 Nakba.

The United Nations describes the Nakba—"the catastrophe"—as "the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the...