Day Broken is a short atmospheric horror game based on S. D. Locke's Proposal, which tells a story about a world in which humanities most stable source of wellness; the sun, turns against them.

You play as one of the lucky few who survived the initial chaos, as you were currently working the day shift as a subway technician. You are blissfully unaware of this horrifying truth of what is happening, until you decide to boot up the computer.

Short summary of the source material:

In S. D. Locke's Proposal known most commonly as "When Day Breaks" (also big inspiration for the title of this game), the sun undergoes some unknown event in which the light it emits in the visible spectrum all of the sudden has a kind of melting effect on anything organic. The organic creature (not exclusive to humans) then transforms into a kind of wax-like creature. Coming into contact with any such wax-like creature is also, most likely, lethal. If such a story intrigues you, I highly suggest you check out the original article.

About game itself

The goal of the game is simply to exit the subway station whilst not being killed by any of the entities and avoiding all direct sunlight.

The game uses a custom game engine written in c++, and uses state of the art lighting methods (ray traced reflections, global illumination and shadows). Note: it does not require a rtx gpu to run.

Please note: the provided binary is windows only, unfortunately if you are using another OS, you will not be able to run this game. (for linux users: it may run in wine, but this has not been adequately tested) :slight_frown:

For those of you using windows however, installing and running this game should be fairly straightforward. Simply download the provided .rar file, extract it (make sure everything included in the rar is extracted to the same folder!) and run the provided .exe. The game will prompt you if you wish to use any custom resolution, however if you simply want to run on your monitors native resolution in fullscreen, you can simply enter: "n y" into the console and hit enter.

The initial offline render which was used a basis for the rest of the graphics in the game.

The resulting in-game final render, with all the post processing applied.

The train you use to get to/from your work.

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Credits:

Not all of the models were made by me (albeit most were). Links to the respective models can be found here

Many of the sound effects used free sounds as a base, and were heavily mixed (instead of being created from the ground up). Links to all the original sound effects can be found here. As only the minority of sound effects were created entirely from the ground up, I have choose to opt-out of the audio category. Do note that all of the sound effects were heavily mixed and edited by me, some may not even be recognizable from their originals.

Some of the textures were found via 3DAssets.one a fantastic site (not sponsored, just a big fan!)

I borrowed the voice talents of "Electrode" and "Simon", massive thanks to them for both the voicework and also the short notice!

Note: due to feedback, there is now a transcript of the voice recordings.

Changelog:

05/10/2021 - Fixed mouse cursor being always visible, and made death/ending text a tad faster.

Full Gameplay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQ8SJYxyFk