Glow by benmcnelly

made by benmcnelly for LD 39 (JAM)

Description

I think I will let the game tell its own story, but a general synopsis is you are an expendable technician on a dangerous mission, with limited resources. Glowstone is the local resource that your life giving mechanical canister uses to power your life support and traverse the area. Its in limited supply once you travel away from your starting point so either plan return trips or come up with another strategy to stay alive. Along the way you can find GlowStone Sticks and Glowstone Boosts to help you on your travels, but be wary of the creatures of the night, and deadly traps!

Gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4egwjzGh1Y

Screenshots

Windows	http://fbstudios.com/LD/39/Glow.zip
macOS	http://fbstudios.com/LD/39/Glow_for_Mac.zip
Source code	https://github.com/benmcnelly/ld39
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/glow-1

Ratings

Given

6🗳️

12🗨️

Feedback

Sondrian

01. Aug 2017 · 04:03 UTC

Hey, just wanted to let you know that I wasn't able to run this game. The screen was black with strange lighting effect artifacts. I wasn't able to play it.

cnoble

01. Aug 2017 · 04:04 UTC

I enjoyed the intro narration, but felt it took just a bit too long to say how to get into the ground level of movement portion. I loved the art and the feel, but the walking sound loop was a bit repetitive. Keep up the good work :)

Huitre

01. Aug 2017 · 05:22 UTC

I had a display bug that cut the sides of the screen (was in fullscreen), the instructions were cut.
Apart from that, the ground looks delicious!

ijona

01. Aug 2017 · 17:03 UTC

I liked the feeling of loneliness an isolation in this game. Graphics and audio are quite atmospheric, and controlling the drone gives you a very weird feeling of being in to places simultaneously (somehow, it increases isolation and loneliness).

Like the person from the previous comment, I also had this bug cutting the screen.

Arthur Iung

02. Aug 2017 · 01:05 UTC

The fact that the screen was cut at the edges made it very difficult to understand what I should do. But I decided to wait until the end of the woman's speech (which, by the way, is very good), when she said what I should do.
Although it is a very interesting mechanic, to control two characters at the same time, the lack of information was very difficult. I would like to see the future of this game, it looks very promising =).

🎤 benmcnelly

02. Aug 2017 · 03:57 UTC

Thanks for the feedback! I have updated the game to fix that bug that was happening on 16:10 and 4:3 screens, the original without the bug fix is still available here: http://fbstudios.com/LD/39/