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What's Left of ROOK'S KNIFE

Hello everyone, Anyone who was online in the early 2010s has probably heard of Rook's Knife. If not from one of the many articles about it being a hugely ambitious amateur game project, then about its cancellation and the shutdown of its main forum. It's been a few years now, and Rook's Knife is now just one of those half remembered video game heartbreakers from people who played games like Myst and thought huh, what if I did that, but better. With no money. And no prior experience. If you're a bit deeper than most, you've probably seen the concept art of the Crow-Keeper and that pencil sketch of the tower, half sliding off a cliff. Rook's Knife had come out with a trailer sometime in 2011, mustered a lot of support and donations, and then just...stopped. Its devs are still around, apparently, given the anonymous interviews they've given, though all they'd ever talk about is how awesome the game could have been. I was involved. I won't say what my ro