Company: Dizzaract
Founder and CEO: Ilman Shazhaev
Website: https://www.dizzaract.com/
About Dizzaract
Dizzaract is a full-cycle AI and gaming development studio based in Abu Dhabi, building an interconnected ecosystem of products rather than a single game or app. What drives the team is a simple conviction: AI is becoming core infrastructure, gaming remains one of the largest digital ecosystems in the world, and the most valuable companies of the coming decade will be built where the two meet.
Dizzaract was founded in 2022, working in stealth on its flagship title, Farcana, before launching publicly from Abu Dhabi in early 2025 as the largest game development studio in the Middle East by team size. Today the studio brings together more than 80 engineers, researchers, designers and operators across 25 countries.
The central challenge was ambition itself. When Dizzaract set out to build a AAA game inside the UAE, there was no established pipeline of AAA studios in the region to draw on. The team built that capability from the ground up, developing Farcana on Unreal Engine 5 to a production standard meant to stand alongside the leading global hero shooters, and securing registered patents for adaptive AI frameworks that let games respond to player behaviour in real time. Coordinating a distributed team across 25 countries, while building original IP and deep technology in parallel, meant the studio had to operate as an engineering company as much as a game studio.
The impact on the region has been twofold. Farcana stands as one of the first high budget games developed in the UAE, helping shift the perception of the Gulf from a market that mainly consumes games to a region that can originate world class IP and creative technology. Around the games sits a growing deep technology effort: FAR Labs, the Dizzaract research division, is building FAR AI, a distributed AI inference network designed to make AI compute more affordable, while GAMED provides an identity and economic layer that brings fragmented gaming data and assets into a single dashboard for players.
Founder and CEO Ilman Shazhaev anchors this work as a United Nations expert under the UNODC programme on AI in developing economies, an inventor with registered patents and a published author of dozens of scientific papers. Under his direction Dizzaract has helped position Abu Dhabi as a credible home for both AAA game development and frontier AI infrastructure, drawing global talent into the region rather than exporting it. The ambition from here is direct: to show that a studio born in the Middle East can compete at the highest level in gaming and in applied AI, and to keep building that future from the Gulf.
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