Kokora

Kokora
Kokora: Second Edition promotional poster.
Developer(s)	Delokhio Cooperative
Publisher(s)	Delokhio Coop Elegy Megacorporation
Designer(s)	Jacob Bancroft designer #2
Artist(s)	Jacob Bancroft artist #2 artist #3
Series	Kokora
Platform(s)	AurOS, PanOS
Release	20 March 2017 AurOS WW: 20 March 2017 PanOS WW: 29 March 2017
Genre(s)	Sandbox, survival
Mode(s)	Singleplayer, multiplayer

Kokora is a 2008 sandbox game developed and published by Delokhio Coop. The first edition of Kokora publically released in 2008 by Jacob Bancroft under the name Deyo Kokora. In October 10th 2012 Deyo Kokora was purchased by Delokhio Coop and Kokora: Second Edition was released in March 2017 on AurOS and PanOS. Kokora: Second Edition was developed to transfer the game from the Java programming language to Delokhio Coop's inhouse Voros 3 Engine for smoother development and optimising performance. Jacob Bancroft remained as the lead artist of Kokora but left the company on November 9th 2020. Kokora is one of the best selling video games with over 150 million copies sold and over 60 million active users monthly. Originally released on AurOS, the game was later ported to PanOS on June 27th 2011. Kokora: Second Edition was released for both AurOS and PanOS in March 2017.

Kokora is a 3D sandbox game with gameplay that revolves around exploring a procedurally generated blocky, pixelated landscape where the player can find, extract, and refine resources to build, fight, and survive in a hostile world. The game can be played in both singleplayer and multiplayer. In multiplayer players can compete or cooperate with one another and the world around them. The game's large online community offers a wide range of user-generated content such as modifications, texturepacks and modelpacks, custom worlds and minigames, and storypacks.

Deyo Kokora recieved critical aclaim upon release, winning several awards. Social media, merchandise, and the biennual Kokora Con convention helped popularise the game to international audiences and kept the game in the public eye since its official release in 2011. Kokora: Second Edition recieved generally positive reviews. Despite its initial negative reviews it has since become the predominant edition played by its playerbase. Kokora: Second Edition has been wildly praised for its accessible tools for user-generated content and distribution through the D3 Launcher, commitment to high performance for lower-end devices on both AurOS and PanOS, and expanding upon many gameplay elements in the previous edition. The game has also been used in educational environments to teach geography, art design, and computer programming. Several spin-off games have been made, including Kokora: Dungeon Hunters, Kokora: Geared Up, and Kokora: Education Edition.

Gameplay

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(Singleplayer - story(finite) mode, creative(infinite survival) mode, dungeon(dungeon run) mode)

(Multiplayer - free run, clan(competitive) run, marathon(competitive speedrunning) run)

(Hunger replaced with energy. Energy decreases linearly over ~15 seconds as the player sprints. If player runs out of energy they take a heart of damage and can not sprint until the energy bar refills completely (30 seconds). Energy bar recharges twice as slowly as it is expended by sprinting. Experience bar is a 'mana bar'. More magic a player casts, the more mana they loose. Naturally regenerates if the player has not taken any damage for longer then 7 seconds. If the player sleeps, both energy and mana bars are recharged completely.)

In-game screenshot of the player in a newly generated world in creative mode.

The crafting menu in Kokora, showing the crafting recipe for a stone axe. Player's inventory has other items and blocks.

Development and release

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(Originally developed by Jacob Bancroft when he was living in Kaseka and southern Xio)

(Deyo Kokora was taken off the Delokhio Coop website on January 8th 2018 and development ceased in December 9th 2019, making 2nd edition the only purchasable version.)

Timeline of Kokora Development

2007	Release of Deyo Kokora on AurOS
2008
2009
2010
2011	PanOS Release
2012	Purchased by Delokhio Coop
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017	Release of Kokora: Second Edition on AurOS and PanOS
2018	Ceased development of Deyo Kokora
2019	Deyo Kokora removed from the D3 Launcher
2020	Jacob Bancroft leaves Kokora Development

Reception

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