Arknights

This article is about the Arknights r/place community. For information on the game's app icon, see Gacha Alliance app icons. For detailed information on the Arknights community's artworks, see Arknights(artworks).

Arknights
Name	Arknights
AKA	明日方舟(Tomorrow's Ark)
Description	A community for the free-to-play tower-defense gacha game by Hypergryph released in 2019.
Subreddit	Arknights
Discord	https://discord.gg/arknights
Website	https://www.arknights.global/
Twitter	https://twitter.com/ArknightsEN
Artwork	Arknights Text, Swagmiya, Arknights Icon

Arknights Is a free-to-play mobile game with tactical RPG and tower defense elements produced by Chinese developer Hypergryph. The world of Arknights, known as Terra, is set in a post-apocalyptic setting where natural disasters, known as Catastrophes, ravage the land and leave behind a valuable material known as Originium. In Arknights, players take on the role of a researcher and field commander known only as the Doctor, who at the time of the game's start, has a very severe case of amnesia. As they are thrusted into the heat of combat, the player must coordinate a number of humanoid characters with animal or mythological features known as "operators" of Rhodes Island, a pharmaceuticals company that also has acted as a self-defense organization with its own private army. Operators can contribute to battles in a variety of ways, whether it may through melee or ranged combat, the healing/support of other operators, and the use of magic known as "Arts".

Arknights was released in China on the 1st of May 2019, globally on the 16th of January 2020, and in Taiwan on the 29th of June of the same year. Because of this, the Arknights r/place community did not have a presence in the r/place 2017 canvas. The community is also a member group of the Gacha Alliance.

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Artwork

Arknights Text

The first project undertaken by Arknights was a blue text that said "Arknights". At first, due to the small size of the canvas on the first day, it was shortened to r/AK (standing for Arknights) and it was accompanied by a chibi Amiya as well as a logo of Rhodes Island(symbolized by a blue triangle with a rook). When the canvas extended, the Rhodes Island logo was deleted in favor of more space, and the r/AK text was rebranded to "Arknights", where it stood until the end of the canvas. The chibi Amiya was also kept for a very long time, until it was intentionally removed so that a small Poland flag adjacent to it could extend its borders. The Arknights text has been attacked more than once from rogue bots of the r/CLTV (anti-Chinese community) subreddit that were trying to extend the Pooh art's ear, though the Arknights community has successfully defended against all of these attacks.

The first rendition of the Arknights text.

At this location, Arknights was allied with the r/Tetris community, the small Poland flag, and the "SP" and "i" artworks. Arknights was also on neutral terms with the r/CLTV community and the VRChat community.

Amiya with Sunglasses

This project was intended as a pet project by one of the Arknights r/place community leaders in an attempt to alleviate the lack of activity from the group. Dubbed as "Swagmiya", "Smugmiya", and "Pogmiya", the simple artwork featured the game's mascot, Amiya, with a smug smile and a pair of sunglasses. Situated near the original Arknights text and adjacent to the Elden Ring/Hollow Knight artwork and below the Genshin Impact Chinese logo, the project was finished within 3 hours of the first pixel being placed. The artwork faced little activity from foreign invasions after its creation, and stood until the end of the canvas.

Arknights App Icon

In a collaboration with multiple other gacha game communities in the Gacha Alliance, Arknights created its logo alongside the r/place communities of Girls' Frontline, Guardian Tales, Honkai Impact, Genshin Impact, Blue Archives and Fate/Grand Order. Later on, the icon would share space with Azure Lane on the bottom right corner, forming a Yostar trio (Arknights, Azure Lane and Blue Archives shares the same Shanghai based publisher Yostar). The bottom left corner would be given up for for Punishing Gray Raven and Princess Connect! Re: Dive icons.