Project ORKA
Project ORKA
A community revolutionizing the way we make video games and software.
How does it work?
At the core of Project ORKA is an always evolving, community driven, modular code base, accessible to everyone.
What is it for?
Every game built with Project ORKA will be 100% moddable, meaning that games can always be improved and evolve even if the original developer ceases to work on it.
What is the goal?
Project ORKA is not meant for making cash or ripping off gamers like the big studios do, Project ORKA is for the people who love making, modding and playing games.
Who is it for?
People that have seemingly simple ideas and want that executed as fast as possible to see where it leads, whithout having to write a whole game from scratch.
What comes next?
At the core games are just software and that means that project ORKA not only applies to games, but all kinds of software.
Featured Projects
MoonCrash
The origin of Project ORKA and by far the biggest project yet. Its been in development since 2014 and is an ambitious, massive fantasy-universe-simulation inspired by Skyrim.
Project BioPunk
A world in which disease violently mutates all life on earth. People loose their limbs, grow feathes, hands turn into twigs, skin turns solid. Any second that passes turns you less human, but not every mutation brings you closer to death.
A grotesque body horror nightmare in which only one thing counts: SURVIVAL
Project Demigod
A brutal realistic third person action game in which the modern world is being invaded by ancient gods, interdimensional demons and surreal angels.
Movement Controller Playground
A programmers playground for testing movement mechanics and player controls within ORKA. It is inspired by the iconic Quake movement and its various skill-based bugs.
Project Snek
A Snake inspired game, developed by deg
Pong
A version of Pong to play around with.
For Gamers by Gamers
WHEN MAKING A GAME:
Project ORKA becomes resource to help you speed up development and avoid starting from scratch.
It enables you to look at or even use already existing implementations for certain concepts.
Lets say you wanted to implement a pathfinding algorithm, you can look up existing modules within Project ORKA and use those as a guide to create your own or straight up drag and drop them in to your code base.
You can also just take a similar existing project and start from there.
WHEN MODDING A GAME:
Project ORKA becomes a tool to easily access and change every piece of code that a game was built with.
This means that you have full control over not only the games data, but also the entire game down to the very core - the engine.
No decryption, no reverse engineering, no hacking, no compromises, just pure code accessible right there and then, which helps a lot with debugging and fixing compatibility issues.
Obviously, modifying scripts, editing meshes and replacing textures or shaders works as usual.
WHEN PLAYING A GAME:
Games built with Project ORKA have no compromises, everything can be built with pure C++, meaning there are no scripting languages or conversions that could hurt performance.
It is designed to give you the best possible experience.
The nature of ORKA allows games to evolve and a rating systems makes sure that the good stuff floats to the top.
This means that your favourite games will never stop getting better.
Bugfixes, overhauls, balancing, new content, better graphics and so much more available for every game.
What do we need to do?
THE FRAMEWORK
Instead of creating games that are moddable, we create mods that can build a game – any game to be precise.
As a developer you will be creating small modules that represent a system or idea. So, you are not creating a full game, just the idea or concept that you want to see.
Those modules, together with other resorces like meshes and textures, will make up a mod that can be up and downloaded.
With a collection of those mods you can make a full game, tool or program. The exiting part is, because those games are modular, they are extremely flexible when it comes to modding. Every single part, from planets to the underlying bits and bytes, can be replaced and is free for everyone to change.
THE PLATFORM
The platform is essentially a modding hub, where you can download mods, collections and resources.
For playing games or creating new games. Simply click on what you like, download and start doing what you like.
Project ORKA is about creative freedom and in order to achieve that we will use a special license, so everyone in the community can collaborate without anyone using your ideas for their own profit.
Built into the framework we will also have a crediting system that tracks who worked on which mods. So that donations and any kind of revenue can go straight to you guys. (provided it exceeds the maintenance costs.)
That said, Project ORKA will be as free and transparent for as long as possible.
THE GAMES
Without games no gamers and without game engines no game developers. Thats what we need to change as soon as possible.
Creating an easy to read, easy to use game engine that can support smaller projects and scale well enough with just a couple lines of code is the first step.
The second step is creating small, but interesting games that people like to play. The last step is to make noise. As much as we can. Because with every single person added to our community we can create all kinds of games, faster and easier than ever before.
Imagine creating an entirely new universe, with the click of a button. We hope you are exited, because we definietely are!
Are you interested?
Join our Discord Server and see whats going on or share your ideas!