Dakota - the RPG

 

Wow. Six years - almost to the day - since my last post. I honestly thought I was done with all this. But one day I started trying to answer the question, what would it look like if I made a video game? It wasn't easy, but after grinding out many a pixel, I am beginning to see the answer take shape.

Dakota the RPG. I don't want it to be confused with any of the other Dakotas. There are a handful.

I wanted to make something that celebrated my personal history with role playing games, a 30 year obsession. I have been enthralled with this type of game since the eighties, starting with my discovery of Dungeons and Dragons, and then continuing into the nineties with Japanese video games like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.

Somewhere between playing Terraria and Hyper Light Drifter I was inspired to try and make a game myself. Nothing too crazy, just something to apply my love of pixel art to. I was dying to start making graphics!

And so I began, and now six years have past. This is what I came up with.

TEASER:

There is still a lot of work to be done, but I figure since everything is finally working and looking the way that I want, it would be okay to start to show it. Of course I may change something here or there, and future bugs or errors may creep up, but at this very moment, things are looking and behaving really solid. And in case you were wondering, no, this isn't a "Boxpunx RPG", although I did consider what that might look like, and of course there are some instances of the tongue-faced character here and there...

And that's really all I have got for now. I do plan to update this site somewhat regularly as I continue to progress. I am going to shoot for every friday and see how that goes. Anyway thanks for the visit and be safe out there!