![[Under Roark-20240302145238253.png]] ## What's your Cohost Link? [roark](https://cohost.org/roark?page=0) ## What's the thing? Under Roark is a turn-based indie RPG about an magic amnesiac cowboy wandering around a world that is constantly trying to kill him. He wakes up in a small, nearly empty community and has to unravel the series of events that led him to this point, while trying to defend himself from enemies he made in his past life. This started originally as a TTRPG play by post game I hosted over Discord in 2019 back when I was still a highschooler. I had gotten into game development in 2020 and started work on this project in October of 2021. I am the sole programmer and writer, and also handle the majority of the artwork as well. Progress is somewhat slow at the moment, mostly owing to my own personal life. This game is inspired a lot by games like Mother 3 and Paper Mario. Visually the Mother series is what I took a lot of my inspiration from as I'd just finished Mother 3 around the time the project started and was really inspired by how it looked. As for Paper Mario, I really wanted to include more interactive gameplay elements to my RPG that would fall into the western theme. This includes things like having to aim down opponents, and action commands for things like special attacks. This game has come an incredibly long way over the last few years, and I hope to release the game's Prologue at some point in 2024. Originally it was planned to release last year but a mixture of the game's opening expanding in scope and a hectic work schedule delayed things a bit. The story really means a lot to me and I'm incredibly excited to share it with other people. What began as a small game played with friends has taken a life of it's own, and all I have to do is bring it to life! ## Anything else? I think westerns are a severely underutilized genre and that we should be adding magic to them because that would be cool...