Majara

Majara (Japanese: マジャーラ, also known as Majara: The Last Star Rider) is a 3D platform-role-playing hybrid video game, developed and published by ​​​​​for the Sohnix MechaByte. It is set to be released on November 19, 2030. You take as the Arabian-style alien character named Majara who seeks to find the remaining race of the Star Riders, an alien race that was destroyed by the Space Pirate Krin-Gon. The Space Pirates seek to find mysterious relics that the Star Riders hid. It is up to Majara to remain as the last remaining Star Rider and search the missing relics.
Majara is an open-ended 3D platformer with role-playing game elements, featuring large, sprawling levels in which the player must increase the level skills of the character by locating collectible items, which are pearl stones, crystalized masks, and stolen artifacts. Uniquely, the character has the ability to transform into different types of alien species, his elongated tongue which is required for traverse gaps, as a way to leap onto platforms, and his hover jumps.
Majara is an open-ended 3D platformer with role-playing game elements, featuring large, sprawling levels in which the player must increase the level skills of the character by locating collectible items, which are pearl stones, crystalized masks, and stolen artifacts. Uniquely, the character has the ability to transform into different types of species, his elongated tongue which is required for traverse gaps, as a way to leap onto platforms, and his hover jumps.
 
Majara started development before the launch of Sohnix’s new console, the Sohnix MechaByte. The company wanted to have a character that differentiates from the Tigzon series, particularly Tigzon the TigerStar. Following the success of the first Tigzon game, Sohnix wanted to create a 3D Platformer, geared towards kids and wider audience, since the Tigzon series was intended for a teen and older audiences as well as breaking point of the Sohnix MechaByte console.
The creators desired to create the project as a love letter to old PlayStation platformer games such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon as well as modern platformers such as Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Super Mario Odyssey, and A Hat in Time. They also took inspirations from other genre games such as Final Fantasy 7, Mega Man Legends, and anime/manga series such as Outlaw Star, Captain Harlock, Cowboy Bebop and Anime-influenced animated series such as Avatar: The Last Airbender and Wakfu. Another obscure Fantendo series; Maven the Lynx (created by ) is also inspired the game. The idea was originally going to be an anthropomorphic character; with Koala, Lion and Lizard as their design choices but the team wanted to go with an alien species and therefore, used a chameleon-like as the inspirations for the alien character.
The idea of Majara was inspired by the cultures of the Middle East and Persian, mostly with pearl diving. When creating the character Majara, the team wanted to associate with designs, inspired by the Islamic symbols and calligraphies, which the character's head is represented as two overlapping squares, known as Rub el Hizb (Arabic: ربع الحزب‎ rubʿ al-ḥizb). The creators went with stories and backgrounds based around Arabian Nights, as well as Arab countries such as Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
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File:Majara_logo_design_(2).png|Official logo of the game
File:Majara_character_artwork.png|Majara
File:Majara_-_Character_artwork.png|Concept art of Majara the Star Rider
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