What I'm developing is a unique game that combines the old 2D RPGs that we all love and cherish with multiplayer aspects to allow for ever evolving dynamics between player controlled factions with results that will change and alter the game world dynamically.

But first, more about me.

I am a 36 year old dude from Sweden with around 20 years of experience working in game development. I'm a pretty good programmer and a decent pixel artist and the last few years I've been working on bringing my passion project to life.

Around 20 years ago my teenage self was in love with a predecessor to Roblox that few people have heard of called Graal Online where you could essentially develop your own worlds. One of those worlds had me and a couple of hundred other players hooked for years, until it eventually perished.

I met some friends for life and still cherish the memories that was made, and in honor of that I'm creating my own game as a sequel to that world.

The project.

I essentially imagine a combination of A Link to the Past, modern RPG features, dynamic world and online gameplay community.

Like in any RPG you chose your class, kill monsters to gain experience and levels, gather loot and powerful equipment to improve your capabilities, explore the world, progress the story and whatnot.

The world will be set hundreds of years after a dark powerful entity and his undead armies conquered the world, bringing death and destruction everywhere. Where there was once three dominant factions and peace in the lands, there is now nothing but ruin.

You awake in the underworld being introduced to the backstory, introcuded to gameplay mechanics and eventually being given a second life and return to the world.

And that's where it'll begin.

What I'm looking for:

A project partner.

You'll need to be at least better than me with pixel art and willing to spend enough time to allow for at least weekly progress and whatever we're working on. Visually your pixel art needs to be able to handle a style reminiscent to games such as The Unliving, Sun Haven and Chained Echoes to new a few examples.

While I'm overseeing the main direction of the game, your creative input will be able to shape everything along the way.

Here's what I've already implemented:

• A web server hosting the game server, updates and website
• An authorative game server
• User registration
• Guest login
• Saving of game data in a cloud database
• A cross platform client currently working on Windows, Linux and HTML5
• Basic attacks
• Ability to gain experience & level up
• HUD that shows health, mana, experience & level
• Attributes
• PvP
• Smart enemies that utilizes an advanced behaviour system to make combat more fun & engaging

Interested and want to know more?

Message me either on Reddit or add me on Discord @ maaarcus87

You can see how the game looks like by checking my latest updates on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/maaarcus87/media

Want to try it for yourself?

Play it in your browser at https://play.maloria.org/ or download the Windows or Linux client at https://maloria.org/downloads/

Like what you see but not really interested in helping?

Join our Discord community with ~100 followers to keep up to date with the project @ https://discord.gg/Sph8WGv