The Arkh Project

You can read about the game, watch the development, and see numerous updates here!

Rosegold is a team headed by Kia and Erin, a Black queer woman and a Japanese woman. They both have extensive experience in writing, and mostly handle 2-D games.

The inspiration for the project came from Riley, a queer trans* person who has supported Rosegold by getting the word out.

You can look here and read the entries for a game by Rosegold soon to be released, that also has a focus on queer relationships.

This project would be much more drastic than anything Rosegold has attempted before, and as an tiny indie, they cannot do it alone, hence the ask for help!

The Arkh Project is a group of amazing people getting together in an attempt to raise funds and create a video game completely off the beaten path. People of Color are often tokenized in video games, leaving them to play one of very few roles. Queer people are consistently left in the dust in meaningless relationships, or relationships that are mocked. We're looking to subvert that and turn it upside down. This game is for people who don't get to be fantasy and sci-fi heroes! This game is to help normalize the millions of other people who play video games!

Tired of your 50 millionth zombie survival horror? Tired of Final Fantasy doing another steampunk-y high fantasy game with the same character and story model? Want something so completely off the beaten track that we are appealing directly to its fanbase to help it live?

You're in the right place.

Follow the story of a deity bored with life amongst the gods, who leaves to find a purpose in life. Reincarnate your deity onto numerous worlds, live through the lives of others and gain life experience...but watch your God Energy, you need a lot of it to continue your astral journey. Fight monsters only you can see, sometimes around very particular civilians who refuse to get the heck out of your way. And most of all, see a game and a story that the big wigs refuse to give!

With Rosegold's help, some queer people of color from tumblr are trying to get up the funding to make a 3-D RPG of quality for queer people and people of color, with a focus on the intersectionality of both identities.

Other major video game creators make very small allowances for these but they are not enough. PoC are still heavily muted, and queer people still end up with easily ignored stories, or at the butt of jokes.

And people who are queer and PoC? Damn near unheard of.

So let's stop all that! Let's pool together and get a great team of PoC and queer modelers and artists and make a game just for us!