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A jam submission

The Only LightView game page

the only one light
Submitted by matthewmercer — 16 hours, 52 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Adherence to the Theme#5444.0774.077
Overall#6273.6923.692
Design#7103.3853.385
Originality#7713.6153.615

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

(+1)

good one

Submitted(+1)

Oh great idea~  it is tense walking around trying to find another shrine.  Also the opening tutorial was super cool!  I wanna learn to do that~ If you have the motivation work on it after the jam some more!  A lot of people on itch like these creepy games haha.  If you have free time, please check out https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461493  .  Once again, great job!

Submitted(+1)

I like it! The music fits the game very well - it isn't scary, per se, but it gives you the feeling of unease.

The only thing I would change here is the tutorial. The first time I played it went on too fast and I missed the last bit about having to activate all the shrines - I thought I needed to look for unlit shrines, so I wondered around in the dark looking for something that wasn't there. When I found out what I was doing wrong, I wanted to skip the tutorial, but the help text kept appearing on the screen.

Oh, it might be a good idea to have some sort of indicator of how many shrines are in that level, plus maybe an information when you've activated them all.

All in all, I think it's a pretty decent entry to the jam. Well done!

Developer

Thanks for playing! We will fix everything and add all you said above

Submitted(+1)

I loved the atmosphere in your game, quite calm and still scary. I especially liked how in the last level you didn't show the positions of the shrines, so you had to kind of trust the paths. The tutorial could have been shown a little bit longer. I had to restart the game because I couldn't read all of it that fast.

Developer

Hi! Thanks for a comment. RN I'm fixing things here and there and I'll fix this too! Wait for it :)

Submitted(+8)

Cool Idea! I'm glad the torches show you so much surrounding space, or else i would have been so lost.

here is mine. https://newkryptonite.itch.io/the-lonly