The developers for the crowd-funded game The Girl From Arkanya has shared a progress update. The Girl of Arkanya is a 2D top-down RPG “following the journey of an ambitious young treasure hunter and her capybara companion.” In many respects, it appears to be an imitation of the style of The Legend of Zelda, which is the greatest form of flattery. The game is coming out for the Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC. There’s no release date at this time. Here are notes from the latest project update from the game’s Kickstarter.
“So we started working on implementing co-op and… oh boy. Don’t worry, co-op is still coming and we’re not too far from being able to share some co-op gameplay with you all! But when we started working on it, we unsettled a lot of ugly code that hadn’t been an issue before, so January has largely been about cleaning up old messes I forgot I made.
The first dungeon has also gotten a fresh coat of paint in anticipation of our upcoming limited backer test, including improved visuals, more intuitive puzzles, and a brand new boss fight!
We’ve also finalized the game’s lighting system/visuals, and uh… we actually kind of looped back around to our original lighting visuals. However, it’s a lot more performant under the hood now, because we want this game to run flawlessly on the Nintendo Switch! (And also it just needed some cleaning up, badly)”
These are the main highlights, but there is a bit more regarding becoming a tester for the first dungeon. So if you want to read the full details on The Girl from Arkanya’s latest update, head over to their Kickstarter!