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Here are the facts, ready-made descriptions, screenshots, B‑roll and logos for Khalifah, the free building game for Muslim children. You're welcome to use all of it in your coverage.

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For questions or an interview, email Afridi at nextcodeca@gmail.com.

In the news

“Faithful fun: Sask. father’s video game teaches his son about religion” CBC News Saskatchewan · 26 October 2026 “New video game teaches Muslim children faith, community and life skills” CTV News Regina · 20 October 2026
The madrasah in Khalifah: a golden dome, tiled minarets and date palms, with villagers at the door.
Every picture here is from the game.

Fact sheet

Khalifah at a glance

“Build a good world, and look after it.”

The same facts on one page: fact sheet (PDF, 338 KB).

Name
Khalifah (خليفة), Arabic for “steward”. Say it kha-LEE-fah.
Made by
Afridi, a web developer in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It's a one-person project.
Launched
13 October 2026
Plays on
A web browser on a computer: Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari with WebGL 2. Tablets are being tested.
Price
Free. No ads, no in-app purchases and no subscriptions.
Ages
About 5 to 12, with a gentler pace for ages 5 to 7
Players
On your own, or with friends who join with a private code
Privacy
No accounts and no tracking of individuals
Language
English. Arabic and Urdu are planned.
Website
khalifah.app
Contact
Afridi, nextcodeca@gmail.com

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Tagline

Build a good world, and look after it.

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Khalifah is a free, gentle building game for Muslim children that plays in a web browser.

Short about 50 words

Khalifah is a free, Minecraft-style building game for Muslim children aged about five to twelve. Children build a village, pray with their neighbours when the adhan calls, and learn at a small madrasah. There are no ads, no purchases, no accounts and no chat with strangers. It plays in a web browser at khalifah.app.

Long about 150 words

Khalifah is a free building game made for Muslim families with children aged about five to twelve. Children shape a village from sand, marble, glazed tile and gold, plant date palms and raise fountains. Five times in every game day the adhan sounds across the village, and the villagers, each with a trade of their own, line up for prayer. Children can lay down a carpet and join them.

Inside the world is a small madrasah with eight short classes, from Arabic letters and wudu to manners and history, and a Quran stand with seven short surahs in Arabic, transliteration and English. The game never recites; it points children back to a parent and a teacher.

There are no monsters, no timers and no way to fail. Friends join with a private code, device to device. There are no ads, purchases, accounts or tracking. Khalifah plays in a web browser at khalifah.app.

About the maker

Afridi is a web developer in Regina, Saskatchewan. He first built Khalifah for his five-year-old son and still builds it on his own.

About Khalifah

Khalifah is a free building game for Muslim children, made in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It plays in a web browser at khalifah.app, with no ads, purchases, accounts or tracking.

In the game

What children do in Khalifah

  • Build a village from sand, marble, glazed tile and gold: zellij floors, fountains, lanterns and date palms.
  • Pray together. Five times each game day the adhan sounds and the villagers line up for jama'ah, men's rows at the front and women's rows behind. Children can lay down a carpet and join them.
  • Live among neighbours with trades of their own: water-carrier, mason, beekeeper, gardener, teacher. They greet each other with salam and sleep at night, and Barakah the camel comes when you whistle.
  • Learn at the madrasah. Eight short classes: Arabic letters, Quran, wudu, salah, manners, pattern and design, history, and craft and trade. Six questions each, unlimited retakes, and grades only go up.
  • Read at the Quran stand. Seven short surahs, verse by verse, in Arabic with transliteration and the English meaning. The game never recites and doesn't teach tajweed.
  • Play with friends. A private five-character code connects devices directly, and parents can keep a Family Circle of trusted cousins.
  • Take on the Aqueduct Year (ages 8 and up, optional): serve as amir, appoint a wali, fund a water project and distribute zakat. It's off by default while families test it.
  • Play on an old laptop. Graphics adjust on their own, and playing alone works offline once the game has loaded.

The story

Built by a father for his son

Afridi, a web developer in Regina, Saskatchewan, first built Khalifah for his five-year-old son. It grew into a world for Muslim families with children of about five to twelve, and it is still a one-person project.

“I wanted a game I could hand him without worrying: one that would never frighten him, rush him, or try to sell him something.” Afridi, maker of Khalifah

The game shows the words of the Quran but never recites them, and it sends children back to the adults in their lives for anything that matters.

“It points back to a parent and a teacher for anything that matters. It is a doorway, not a replacement.” Afridi

Khalifah is free and will stay free. A LaunchGood fundraiser pays for, in order: translation into Arabic and Urdu, a qualified scholar's review of every lesson and du'a, tuning for the older tablets many children use, and new lands and classes.

Screenshots

Pictures from the game

Full size is 3200 × 1800. Click a picture to see it full size, or download it.

A frame from the B-roll: when the adhan calls, villagers walk across the courtyard to the masjid. Preview on YouTube

B‑roll for broadcast

32 seconds of gameplay with no captions, logo or end card: morning over the village, a courtyard built block by block, neighbours greeting with salam, two friends playing, the madrasah and the Quran stand, then the adhan and the whole village praying together.

MP4 · 1920 × 1080 · 30 fps · the game's own sound and its adhan, no music or voice-over

Download B-roll MP4, 49 MB

Logos

The logo and the mark

SVG for print and design, PNG with a transparent background for everything else. Please don't redraw, recolour or stretch them.

One colour: black logo, white logo, black mark, white mark (SVG). Every logo file is also in the ZIP.

  • Gold #C89B3C
  • Teal #3E9B93
  • Terracotta #B25D3A
  • Ink #2B231A
  • Cream #F5EFE1

Announcement

The launch announcement

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For immediate release

Regina father releases Khalifah, a free building game for Muslim children

A gentle, Minecraft-style world where children build a village, pray when the adhan calls and learn at a small madrasah. No ads, no purchases, no accounts.

REGINA, Saskatchewan, October 2026 — Afridi, a web developer in Regina, has released Khalifah, a free building game for Muslim families with children aged about five to twelve. It plays in a web browser at khalifah.app, with nothing to install and no account to make.

“I first built Khalifah for my five-year-old son,” said Afridi. “I wanted a game I could hand him without worrying: one that would never frighten him, rush him, or try to sell him something.”

In Khalifah, children shape a village block by block from sand, marble, glazed tile and gold. They plant date palms, lay zellij floors and raise fountains. Five times in every game day the adhan sounds across the village. The villagers, each with a trade of their own, set down their work and line up for prayer, and the child can lay down a carpet and join them.

A small madrasah inside the world offers eight short classes, including Arabic letters, wudu, salah, manners and history. Each class is six questions, with no timer and unlimited retakes. A Quran stand shows seven short surahs verse by verse in Arabic, with transliteration and the English meaning. The game never recites and does not teach tajweed.

“It points back to a parent and a teacher for anything that matters,” said Afridi. “It is a doorway, not a replacement.”

The game is designed to be safe for young children. There are no frightening creatures, no timers and no way to fail. Friends visit each other's worlds with a private five-character code, device to device, with no public lobbies and no chat with strangers. There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no tracking.

Khalifah is a one-person project and will stay free. Afridi has opened a fundraiser on LaunchGood to translate the game into Arabic and Urdu, have a qualified scholar review every lesson and du'a, tune it for the older tablets many children use, and build new lands and classes. The fundraiser is at https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/help_grow_khalifah_a_free_building_game_for_muslim_children.

Khalifah is available now at https://khalifah.app. Screenshots, logos and a fact sheet are at https://khalifah.app/press.

About Khalifah

Khalifah is a free building game for Muslim children, made in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It plays in a web browser at khalifah.app, with no ads, purchases, accounts or tracking.

Media contact

Afridi
nextcodeca@gmail.com
https://khalifah.app/press

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