The meaning of Lore

The world of videogames is still an expression of art, like movies or series. The main difference between...

September 28, 2022

The world of videogames is still an expression of art, like movies or series. The main difference between this world and the cinematographic world is that, in the video game world, it’s you who discovers and goes through the story, in many cases your own story.

The Lore of a videogame is its background. The set of different stories, data, charachets and events that give shape, space and time to a universe and give it coherence between them. Thanks to the Lore, a player can immerse in the history of the game, discover new events, understand the reasons and motivations why the events happen and his place in that universe. In a nutshell, the Lore is what makes you understand what you are doing and what makes you want to keep doing it.

In our side, before starting to create the Cukies World Universe, we started from the idea of a single Cuki with an island at his disposal to be able to collect all the resources he wanted. With that resources, he could craft new tools and gadgets with wich to get another type of assets or build constructions that would help him to progress in the game. You could also trade with them and monetize your gaming experience.

The main problem we faced was to make sense of this idea. Who are the Cukies? Why are they on an island? How did they get there? What is their purpose? Pay attention to this word, because you will end up internalizing it.

Starting from the idea that you will initially be playing with your Cuki and you will be on a virgin island, we decided to explain why this is te case, while addressing more practical issues such as what the in-game tutorial will be like, so you can learn the basic mechanics while you play. In this way, we created Kanfo and the Haku.

Now take a sit, hace a cup of your favorite drink and immerse yourself with us in the history of Kanfo and how it changed the whole Cuki society.

Who is Kanfo

For a long time to now, the Cuki tradition and culture tells the story of Kanfo, the Explorer. Kanfo really liked to help his people. Whenever a Cuki needed some help, wisdom or support, he knew that Kanfo will be there. But there was something that Kanfo liked even more: exploring and discovering new territories within the island he lived in. He liked it so much that he could disappear for days with his scout staff and come back with new discoveries and stories.

One day, during one of his exploring expeditions, he came across to what seemed to him like a bird with a fractured wing and he could not resist the impulse to run to help the bird. But when Kanfo got close enough, the bird revealed its true nature and transformed itself into a mysterious but friendly spirit that stole Kanfo’s scout staff and fled with it while laughing.

This fact, far from making the Cuki angry, made him start chasing the spirit while also laughing with him. The spirit, whom we know as a “Haku”, took Kanfo to unknown places on his own island.

At a certain moment, the Haku took Kanfo into a mysterious cave, since that was his intention from the beginning.

The cave & the rock that changed everything

The chasing game between Kanfo and the Haku continued inside the cave for several hours. And, at a certain point, Kanfo realized that he was no longer going through the winding corridors of a cave, but that he was in a large room, illuminated in a mysterious way and with a large rock in front of him, with the Haku on the top of it, looking at him.

It seemed that this was the intention of that roguish little spirit from the beginning, to take the Explorer to the great rock that contained the key to what he always dreamed on.

The rock had been painted for centuries, nothing more and nothing less than the map of the island they lived on, surrounded by other smaller islands. Which meant there were more lands to discover for them to explore! Islands to travel to and spread the Cuki culture, where they can settle, trade and find treasures, resources and knowledge that no Cuki could dream on!

After discovering this, tons of other Haku appeared behind the first, who returned his staff to Kanfo, and they all joined the Cuki run to his village to explain the news to his friends.

The discovery & the first expedition

All the neighbors of Kanfo were amazed by the new companions he brought, but they were even more amazed when he explained what the Haku had taught him, drawing the map in the same sand of the beach where they were.

This fact, motivated the exploration plans and it did not take long for the first expedition of brave Cukies to leave for the nearest island. Its members returned weeks later telling great stories about strange minerals and mountains whose peak the eye could not see. They also told how the Haku seemed to know everything about the territories they visited, guiding them through each point of the islands and teaching them the secrets of each new material they found.

For this reason, more and more expeditions left and returned with resources that no Cuki had ever seen. From delicious plants with incredible flavors, to brilliant ancient talismans whose origin is unknown. Some returned years later with groundbreaking discoveries written on blueprints that helped advance their entire civilization, leaving many great inventions like mere relics.

Each and every one of the expeditions that departed, counted as from any newly discovered island, could glimpse even more on the horizon. It seemed that the islands would never end, and for this reason it was decided to name these territories as The Infinite Archipelago.

The decision

After years of expeditions and exploration missions, there came a time when there were hardly any Cukies available to discover new territories. For this reason, and knowing thanks to the explorers and the Haku that all the islands were virgin and safe, a decision was made: only a single explorer would depart for a new island the morning after his birthday. Preparing the way for those who came after him and thus, under the watchful eye and advice of the Haku, to be able to expand their culture and society to all the islands that were proposed.

As you have seen, this small initial story of the Lore has served so that as a player you can understand, on the one hand, where the Cukies and the Haku come from, why they do what they do and what they will be able to find where they go. And on the other hand, introduce you concepts such as the personality of the members of this universe and their motivations. What also serves as a basis and shapes all aspects of the game, both visually and in its mechanics.

We hope you enjoyed this first little story as much as we did creating it. After her, more will come… so, read ya!

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