Ryvakai

10 — Press

Press kit

What a writer, streamer or curator needs to cover RYVAKAI accurately — including the parts that make it look early. Take what you need; you do not have to ask first, there is no embargo, and there is nothing to sign.

Fact sheet

Title
RYVAKAI
Genre
Open-world ninja-fantasy survival action RPG
Engine
Unreal Engine 5.8.1
Platform
Windows 10/11, 64-bit
Stage
0.1.0-alpha.7 on the pre-alpha channel
Multiplayer
Listen server (host is authority). No dedicated server yet.
Price
Free test builds. Nothing for sale, no store page, no pre-order.
Release date
None announced.
Backend
Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, behind Caddy
Website
https://ryvakai.com

If you are writing about this, please write this

  • The playable build is a movement lab — one grey-box test level for traversal feel. It is not the open world and does not contain the coast shown in the art.
  • All artwork on this site is pre-production concept art produced with image-generation models. None of it is in the game. The reference meshes have no skeleton and no skin weights.
  • Multiplayer is a listen server: one player hosts and is the authority. There is no dedicated server.
  • There is no release date and nothing for sale. Please do not describe a launch window; we have not got one.
  • RYVAKAI is original IP and is not a fan project, a mod, or connected to any existing franchise.

Images

You may use these in coverage of RYVAKAI. Please caption them as concept art or key art rather than as gameplay, because they are not gameplay. Credit “RYVAKAI” if you credit anything.

  • A stone and timber sea gate built into a cliff above a cold grey ocean, two ember lanterns burning under its curved roof while fog erases the horizon.
    Key art The sea gate at the edge of the warden coast.
  • A rope bridge strung across a fog-filled chasm, one figure crossing it toward a cliffside settlement whose windows burn amber, another watching from the near ledge.
    Key art A crossing, and the settlement on the far side.
  • A rain-grey coastline of black cliffs and pine, a terraced stone settlement stepping down toward surf, seen from a high headland under low cloud.
    Key art The northern coast, from the headland road.

A known defect in two character plates

Our own art review recorded faint signature-like artifacts in the lower-right corner of the Tor Varen and Varkuun plates, produced by the image model despite prompting against it, and flagged them as needing removal before any public use. They have not been cleaned yet, so those two are not offered here at print resolution. The Nyra Voss plate is cropped at the feet. We would rather tell you than have you find out in production.

All 5 cast plates and the Varkuun plate are on /media at web resolution, with the same provenance note, and the five archetypes also appear on the homepage.

Video and streaming

Stream it, record it, monetise it. No permission needed, no embargo, no content restrictions. Please name the build version on screen or in the description — these builds change weekly and a viewer should know which one they are watching. If something looks broken, it probably is, and we would rather see the clip.

There is no trailer. When there is one, it will be linked here and announced in the Discord.

Contact

The Discord is the contact channel, and it is monitored by the people who write the code. There is no press inbox, because there is no press office — a project this size having one would be theatre.

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