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New Game: The Empire of Lights (Global Game Jam 2016)

| Taro Omiya

Howdy, everyone. As noted earlier, we have a new game created for Global Game Jam last weekend. Much like the Ludum Dare before, we’ve spent this jam learning something new: programming shaders! The Empire of Lights is a visual experiment inspired by a series of René Magritte paintings with the same name. In this game, you need to collect all the coins scattered throughout the world. To reveal their position, however, one must control the position of the sun. It’s open-source, so go ahead and take a look!

Controls:

  • WASD to move
  • Space to Jump
  • Hold the Left Shift to run
  • Move the mouse to look around
  • Hold E and move the mouse around to change the sun’s position

Created in:

  • Engine: Unity
  • Graphics: A ton to name; see the game’s credits.
  • Music: GarageBand
  • Sound Effects: Unity Standard Assets and BFXR
  • Font: Fira-Sans by Mozilla

Special thanks to our Patreon patrons (https://www.patreon.com/OmiyaGames):

  • Adam R. Vierra​
  • Joshua Jennings
  • xanderhd
  • David Lin
  • Tommy Pedersen
  • Jacob Clark

Link to Itch.io: http://omiyagames.itch.io/the-empire-of-lights

Link to GameJolt: http://gamejolt.com/games/the-empire-of-lights/123111

Some screenshots!

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And for those interested, we have a time-lapse, too!

New feature: Challenge!

| Taro Omiya

We’re adding a new feature to Not a Clone this week! Courtesy of programmer, Taro Omiya, Challenge is a new mode that occurs every 10 apps. For one single app, the difficulty dramatically increases:

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The reward, as the animation above implies, is replenishing one life!

LifeUp2

But what if you already have all 4 lives? No worries! In fact, life up is just one of the rewards. The other, which occurs much more often if you have more lives, is increasing the score by a drastic amount (4!).

ChallengeScoreUp

Naturally, succeeding in this app leads to increasing your score dramatically.

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So what happens if you lose to challenge mode? Simple: you lose one life, just like the other apps, and lose the opportunity to take the challenge again for 10 more games. Of course, we’ll be play-testing this feature extensively, so a lot of these details are subject to change.