{"author_link":"\/author\/null-dies\/","author_name":"Null DIES","author_uid":"52933","comments":[{"author_name":"torcado194","author_uid":"5839","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 11:27pm","epoch":1450308120,"text":"interesting concept! it was kinda confusing at first but i understood it eventually. the controls were hard to get used to though"},{"author_name":"guoboism","author_uid":"24432","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 11:29pm","epoch":1450308240,"text":"The 3D artwork is amazing. I like the story.\rBut I lost when I met the sprout. I can make it grow taller, yet what is the goal?"},{"author_name":"Null DIES","author_uid":"52933","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 11:16pm","epoch":1450480260,"text":"@guoboism: Thanks for the nice feedback :)\rThe sprout ... you're supposed to stand on it so it would carry you, sorry if that wasn't clear :("},{"author_name":"ChromeWisp","author_uid":"60770","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 8:18pm","epoch":1450555980,"text":"Was not very intuitive at first, but once I understood that taking light meant ungrowing a plant and giving light meant growing a plant, the gameplay became clear. Very nicely done, looks like it took a ton of work!"},{"author_name":"Null DIES","author_uid":"52933","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 8:27pm","epoch":1450556520,"text":"Yeah we didn't have time to make a tutorial of any kind, we wanted to put key icons that tell you to press "R" and "F" on sprouts\/trees and maybe just one dialog during the first level.\rI'm glad that people do get the idea after some time though :)"},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 11:24am","epoch":1450610340,"text":"Aw, I was hoping for a lot more in this game with the size of the team. After I read the description I had high expectations, but it turned out pretty disappointed. I'm assuming you had more ideas but ran out of time\r\rHere's my thoughts, reading through it seems kinda harsh but hopefully it's constructive:\r\rThe graphics were kinda boring. Everything seemed kinda dull, especially the trees.\rThe main character looked off to me. The way he moved and then floated when he was still was weird. Also sometimes his robe would sometimes come through the bottom of the platform. The lighting felt off, he looked weirdly shiny, at first I thought he had tentacles.\rThe graphics for the buildings, and the background looked nice. I think maybe if you used some interesting lighting, or something to get different colours into it, it would look good. Perhaps the contrast between light and dark could be emphasised visually? There just needed to be something other than dark and greyness.\r\rGameplay wise it wasn't very fun. I was waiting for the main mechanic to be introduced, and then it ended! I also think limiting the game to going round a single building removed a lot of potential exploration. There's really not much you can do but go around and then go up.\r\rThe controls were pretty weird, I've never played a game that used R, F and C before and it confused me trying to remember which was which, and so I died a lot at the start. Also C was never useful? But perhaps if you left the controls on screen it would be easier.\r\rThe music was really good though!\r\rI think next time I'd focus on thinking of some simple gameplay, and implementing that first. Games that do well are ones with one core mechanic that's fun in itself, as opposed to games where you cram lots of features in to try to make it more fun."},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 11:26am","epoch":1450610460,"text":"I did manage to get through the game by the way! I think maybe the reason why I was disappointed was the intro was done so well, and the screenshots looked really promising! Hope you guys can improve for next time!"},{"author_name":"Null DIES","author_uid":"52933","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 12:25pm","epoch":1450614000,"text":"@Jezzamon: First of all thanks a lot for your feedback :)\rI'd like to point out that half of the team were actually "interns", people who are completely new to our team, so don't think about the number :D\rFor the graphics we decided to go with the "Gothic" art-style and wanted to make it look gloomy (dark blue lighting), but you are right about the trees they need to be much better, and we could try to add more light to the darkness somehow, for example, yesterday I made the characters' eye glow and light up the place a bit.\r\rGameplay-wise, we actually designed 6 levels, but when we finally integrated the final 3D models (trees, elevators) all the positioning as off and we had to readjust everything and time was running out, so we chose levels 1, 3, and 6. A part that you didn't get to see of the core mechanic is the C button, there was supposed to be places where you have to spawn a force of light on top of a pressure plate to keep it triggered as you go through a sliding door that closes when the pressure plate deactivates. There were also levels were the player was forced to go up and down a bunch of times to finally unlock things (not just up and up like you say), this one also didn't make it :("},{"author_name":"Null DIES","author_uid":"52933","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 12:28pm","epoch":1450614180,"text":"And about the controls, yes they are weird indeed, it was a very late decision and didn't get tested, and we didn't even make it configurable from the Unity Launcher, so we apologize for that."},{"author_name":"luysse_l","author_uid":"63552","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:03pm","epoch":1450634280,"text":"very fun game! nice work"},{"author_name":"Hot Box Games","author_uid":"39707","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1450634580,"text":"Very nice fleshed out, almost poetic premise! The gameplay was a bit confusing at first but once I figured out that i had to stand on the sprouts it became quite enjoyable! Good job guys! \rI liked the music too, very dramatic."},{"author_name":"PowerSpark","author_uid":"38755","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1450634640,"text":"Very interesting but it lacks a good puzzle using the growing mechanics. I didn't know what the levers were doing when I activated them too."},{"author_name":"Null DIES","author_uid":"52933","time":"Dec 24, 2015 @ 11:58am","epoch":1450957980,"text":"The levers do all sorts of things, in some cases they open sliding doors, and in the final level is *should* unlock the final elevator, but we mistakenly made the elevator activated by default :D"},{"author_name":"johnnwfs","author_uid":"45706","time":"Dec 24, 2015 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1450987440,"text":"Nice artwork\/graphics. Cool music."},{"author_name":"NirabazGAMES","author_uid":"65891","time":"Dec 24, 2015 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1450988700,"text":"good graphic! well done! :)"},{"author_name":"Nega Drive","author_uid":"26098","time":"Jan 3, 2016 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1451848140,"text":"This game is screaming for a tutorial. Not a bad game though, presentation is nice, and I like the story and voice acting. Gameplay mechanics could probably use some expanding a bit, and definitely needs more in-game explanation. Good work overall though!"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Jan 12, 2016 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1452633540,"text":"Neat game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/lBXur6KZCzs"}],"images":["ld34\/52933-4e1b3a7d8bf523aad32f2b001d30ff74.jpg","ld34\/52933-07477a58f459ce0d6be6eeadc0501983.jpg","ld34\/52933-01cf5ee11011da153ba8c6194f6b606a.jpg","ld34\/52933-cd7935f7ab6120d05adc86d07d7a18d6.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/NullDIES.com\/Projects\/FadingLight\/WebGL-LD34","text":"WebGL"},{"url":"http:\/\/NullDIES.com\/Projects\/FadingLight\/FadingLight-Windows-LD34.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/NullDIES.com\/Projects\/FadingLight\/FadingLight-Mac-LD34.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/NullDIES.com\/Projects\/FadingLight\/FadingLight-Linux-LD34.zip","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"7357","g_author":"52933","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"7389","g_title":"Fading Light","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"764","g_commentcount":"17","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\/\/511439\/52933-shot0-1450151703.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/52933-shot1-1450151703.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/52933-shot2-1450151703.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/52933-shot3-1450151703.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Filii lucis, the children of light. Two twins. Darkness and Light. Dusk and Dawn are their names. Together their power ruled over the earths and heavens. Then there was a day, when the hounds of darkness rebelled against their king, Dusk. Left wounded, his sister Dawn sought to revive him by giving him all the light power in her.\r\n\r\nAfter his sister's sacrifice, Dusk is driven by nothing more than to keep his sisters light glowing in him. Although his darkness eats up whatever light is left off her. He seeks the sacred stones so that he could revive her once again and restore the balance to this universe. \r\n\r\nSister Dawn, you may be a fading light, but you will not be extinguished\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n\r\nA\/D and Right\/Left - Move\r\nSpace - Interact\r\nF - Take light\r\nR - Give light\r\nC - Create a Lighting force\r\n\r\nNote: We discovered a bug in elevators that affect people with low-end devices (where frame skipping occurs) that made the game almost unplayable, so we patched it and re-uploaded.\r\n\r\n__Credits__\r\n\r\nGame Design:\r\n\r\nLead Game Design:\tElHassan Makled\r\nGame\/Level Design:\tIsmaeel ElSinaty\r\n Nadine Ayman\r\n\r\nProgramming:\r\n\r\nLead Programming:\tHassan Selim\r\nProgramming:\t Amr Nafie\r\n Nadine Mansour\r\n Mohamed Melouk\r\n Mohamed Nagy\r\n\r\nArt:\r\nArt Director:\t Amr Kandil\r\nGame Art:\t Farah Mourad\r\n\t Miada Nour\r\n Shady Magdy\r\n\r\nVoice Over:\t Ahmed el Kady\r\n\r\nSpecial thanks:\t AbdoulRahman Ihab\r\n Mahmoud Nour","title":"Fading Light"}