{"author_link":"\/author\/limyc\/","author_name":"Limyc","author_uid":"24802","comments":[{"author_name":"DeathPidgeon","author_uid":"41674","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:43am","epoch":1408955880,"text":"That was a very avant garde game. It took me a few minutes to tell what the point was and and then after I won, it took a few minuted to realize. The lighting effects were nice and I think this fit the theme well."},{"author_name":"Quetzakol","author_uid":"39954","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:06am","epoch":1408957260,"text":"A beautiful game, especially the final scene (I suppose it was the end ^^). The problem is that we don't know what we are supposed to do... It's a pity that there's no sound :\/"},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1408982100,"text":"Very pretty... lovely to play, fun finding them. Found the giant (blue giant ?!) and nothing further seemed to happen."},{"author_name":"Ossi","author_uid":"26674","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:59pm","epoch":1409003640,"text":"The lighting really sells the atmosphere! Really beautiful ending, and as someone said this would benefit a lot from some ambient type music. The theme also has a nice amount of room for interpretation. I like it a lot, great job!"},{"author_name":"Seraphic Media","author_uid":"34168","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:03pm","epoch":1409003880,"text":"A very heavenly game, loved it!"},{"author_name":"graebor","author_uid":"11713","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1409005560,"text":"Nice short and sweet experience, but it definitely would have benefited from a touch of audio."},{"author_name":"MerlijnVH","author_uid":"14952","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:57pm","epoch":1409010720,"text":"Very charming game, I hoped my star became bigger too when I absorbed others. Very lovely!"},{"author_name":"Limyc","author_uid":"24802","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:04am","epoch":1409011140,"text":"@MerlijnVH That's actually a great idea. I should have zoomed the camera out a bit and increased the player size as your own light grew."},{"author_name":"Cad","author_uid":"40365","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:44am","epoch":1409013540,"text":"I like this a lot. At first I was skeptical, but once I got the hang of things it was very interesting"},{"author_name":"Arowx","author_uid":"680","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:41am","epoch":1409045760,"text":"Liked the way you can use the light cast from the stars to find them. Nice little game, needs a bit more maybe a backdrop, sound effects, and a few obstacles or enemies maybe."},{"author_name":"villhest","author_uid":"12294","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:57am","epoch":1409125920,"text":"I like the atmosphere!"},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:04am","epoch":1409126340,"text":"Very neat idea. Not too much of a game unfortunately.\r<br\/>Needs some soothing background music; also the starfield in the background seemed to behave very erratically."},{"author_name":"43iscoding","author_uid":"35110","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:04am","epoch":1409126340,"text":"Very interesting and special game. Very simple but ultra moody! Enjoyed playing it."},{"author_name":"Teesquared","author_uid":"35091","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:19am","epoch":1409127240,"text":"Great use of light in game play. Cool ending."},{"author_name":"Hippolyta","author_uid":"32967","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:04am","epoch":1409129940,"text":"A cool game idea - I like :-)\r<br\/>Good job!"},{"author_name":"Limyc","author_uid":"24802","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:28am","epoch":1409131380,"text":"@Endurion Totally agree on all accounts. I learned that skyboxes don't work well with orthographic cameras."},{"author_name":"hundredhundred","author_uid":"42294","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:41am","epoch":1409132160,"text":"The natural controls, along with the artistic visuals and simple goal of discovering, made this game enthralling--and something you experience as you play. The ending was wonderful"},{"author_name":"Hempuli","author_uid":"491","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 10:52am","epoch":1409136420,"text":"Enchanting, and very beautiful! The game concept was cool and intuitive, although after finding my first light I had to check that there's more to find. The ending was also very cool-looking. Ambient sound would work great with this, methinks. :)"},{"author_name":"FeYbraNt","author_uid":"39099","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:01am","epoch":1409136960,"text":"It's interesting the way you gave to your game, good job."},{"author_name":"MechanicMoon","author_uid":"40539","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:02am","epoch":1409137020,"text":"very good lighting effects on the planets go round"},{"author_name":"LostTrainDude","author_uid":"39571","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:06am","epoch":1409137260,"text":"I think the game has a great mood I hope to see a post-dare version with some added music\\sound.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It felt very easy and smooth, even if sometimes the different colors wouldn't properly &quot;reflect&quot; on planets.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great job!"},{"author_name":"Chikun Dev Team","author_uid":"29857","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:15am","epoch":1409137800,"text":"Such a beautiful game. Too bad you ran out of time for sound, it would've added so much to it.\r<br\/>~funkeh"},{"author_name":"Limyc","author_uid":"24802","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:27am","epoch":1409138520,"text":"@LostTrainDude Considering the feedback I've gotten, I'm definitely considering taking the time to build this game properly."},{"author_name":"DDFranky","author_uid":"40812","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:54am","epoch":1409140140,"text":"Nice game. I restarted the game because i was not able to find the last light. I think that a relaxing background music is necessary to complete the experience."},{"author_name":"Literal Games","author_uid":"26056","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:58am","epoch":1409140380,"text":"Some really cool lighting effects, and the ending is pretty cool even without any philosophy! Nice organic gameplay made this a fascinating entry, with the light being the clue to location and becoming difficult to spot when you're emitting more light. Very cool, but a shame that it isn't used (not that I could see anyway)in the final star, which was a ittle frustrating to find. But it's one of my favourite gameplay ideas so far!"},{"author_name":"Limyc","author_uid":"24802","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1409142060,"text":"@Literal_Games Yeah, you pretty much just run into the sun by accident. Not ideal. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks to you and everyone else for the comments."},{"author_name":"JackDegree","author_uid":"38813","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:35pm","epoch":1409142600,"text":"Badly wants sound, in which case it would probably a very aesthetic experience. Perhaps add effects or stuff when the player absorbs stars... lots of potential!"},{"author_name":"dunin","author_uid":"32902","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:35pm","epoch":1409142600,"text":"interresting experience.\r<br\/>Movement of planets is a little weird, and maybe a collide detection for it would be fine..."},{"author_name":"gnuwind","author_uid":"41912","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 1:08pm","epoch":1409144580,"text":"Beautiful game I think. Can you add a &quot;auto&quot; mode?"},{"author_name":"Limyc","author_uid":"24802","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 1:28pm","epoch":1409145780,"text":"@gnuwind I'm not sure what you mean by an &quot;auto&quot; mode. Could you elaborate?"},{"author_name":"hb3p8","author_uid":"40178","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 1:16pm","epoch":1409231460,"text":"Interesting idea. Is there a way to lose?"},{"author_name":"tatelax","author_uid":"8641","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 2:13pm","epoch":1409494080,"text":"Cool game, I was not able to find the darkened Sun however."},{"author_name":"torvik88","author_uid":"27021","time":"Sep 10, 2014 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1410374460,"text":"At first i was like....wtf is happening...someone really fked this game up, but then slowly but slowly like a moth to the flame i found the stars. Game would need an audio of some desolate sound to make it even more atmospheric and some collision for the smaller planets but very nice done."}],"images":["ld30\/24802-d96c3e92480a7582d7f3692cd84ac0c0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/limyc.com\/ludumdare30\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/limyc.com\/ludumdare30\/bin\/lotw-win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/limyc.com\/ludumdare30\/bin\/lotw-osx.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/limyc.com\/ludumdare30\/bin\/lotw-linux.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Limyc-\/LightOfTheWorld","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16370","g_author":"24802","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"16399","g_title":"Light of the World","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"781","g_commentcount":"33","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/24802-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Not everyone is as alone as they believe.\r\n\r\nGoal:\r\n\r\n* Steal light from the 3 stars and then find the darkened sun.\r\n\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n\r\n* WS - Move forward\/back\r\n\r\n* AD - Rotate left\/right\r\n\r\n* Esc - Quit game (standalone)\r\n\r\n\r\nNotes:\r\n\r\n* If you get lost, just keep moving around. You'll find your way. The game ends when the camera zooms out.\r\n\r\n* I would say this turned out to be less of a game and more of an experience. Just pretend there's life-changing, philosophical text at the end.\r\n\r\n* Ran out of time for music and sound :(\r\n\r\n* OSX and Linux builds are untested.\r\n\r\n\r\nKnown Issues:\r\n\r\n* Screen wrapping causes lighting on NPCs to instantly go black or change direction.\r\n\r\n* The background looks all warped when you rotate due to the use of a skybox with an orthographic camera. Won't make that mistake again.\r\n\r\n\r\nTools:\r\n\r\n* Engine - Unity\r\n\r\n* Asset Tools - Shader Forge\r\n\r\n* External Tools - Paint.net, Spacescape\r\n","title":"Light of the World"}