Night Lights
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
Some strange activity has been popping up around the Windfield's forest, people report seeing lights in the night sky. You're sent to investigate the matter.
Explore the Windfield's forest, collect notes scattered around the map to piece together what happened and discover the source of the strange lights in this short and atmospheric game.
Made by absentSpaghetti for the DreadXP Extraterrestrial Terror Jam.
All of the assets, which weren't made by me are licensed under Creative Commons Zero 1.0:
Models:
- retro-psx-nature-pack by elegantcrow
- fps-arms-psx-style by cemckrc
- 3dretroshacks by chilly-durango
- survival-psx (bed roll and pot) and pizza model by elbolilloduro
- psx-style-villager-woman by mcsteeg
- rocks-psx-low-poly by dripsone
- psx-style-fences by tophatpanda (edited by me to include razor wire)
- ps1-style-leather-cased-notebook, ps1-style-flip-top-notepad, ps1-style-fountain-pen and ps1-style-antique-bankers-lamp by pepperonijabroni
- psx-style-cars by ggbot
- garbage bags and cardboard boxes as a part of the classic64-asset-library by craigsnedeker
Audio:
- footstep sounds, main menu sfx and ambient tracks from ovanisound.com
- metal footsteps sounds by glock102020202
- main menu music & cave track sourced from museopen.org
- level music by szegvari
- paper sliding sound by Joao_Janz
- flashlight pick up sound by kyles
- weird machine audio by monosfera (further edited by me)
- metal gate sound by NapierFreesound
- paper sounds by oscarurbon
- alien sounds by darkadders and Kostrava
- AlmostThereThumps.wav and Meaty Splosh combined by me to create alien footsteps sounds
- wire snap by MasterSuite
- flashlight sounds by TiesWijnen
Additional:
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Development log
- Small Patch 1.0.4Apr 05, 2024
- Small Patch 1.0.3Apr 01, 2024
Comments
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Night Lights is one of the more unique takes on the promt of the games I played - mainly in its sympathies ,which definitely makes it interesting. And mostly interacting with an alien vehicle rather than a creature does make things feel extra overworldly. There's a lot of cool here!
...but I do feel like the game is a slight bit big and slow, and takes bit too long to just let you run in a random direction in the woods before you actually find anything that points you towards a plot. A bit of tightening to get you to the story faster, and this would be extra delightful!
Thanks for the video!
I'll probably be updating the game whenever I have more time and I'll definitely take your feedback into consideration!
Cheers :)
Insanely good game that I really hope wins! The dev absolutely deserves all the praise and 1st place!
Thanks a lot! And for the video too :)
Thanks a lot for the review! I do agree that the player direction kinda falls short on the ending part. I am currently looking into a lot of issues and bugs and will likely release an update when the jam's review period has ended.
If you feel like revisiting the other ending - follow the creature and when it stops, look where its light is pointing and walk in that direction, it should lead it you into a cave, from there, the navigation is quite easy
Thanks again for the kind words, cheers :)
From the moment I started playing, I was instantly hooked by remarkable soundscapes and chilling atmosphere - fantastic game!
I took this even further and watched a playthrough of Alex down below, really couldn't hide my excitement. I loved every single detail in the game, the visuals, the footsteps, the hand gestures - very unique BTW. Overall, I said this a lot with other games from the jam, but this might be the winner - hope so!
Best of luck with the game jam mate! Cheers!
Thanks for the very kind words! Not sure about winning the jam, but I am hopeful - as one should be
Cheers!
Only complaints would be that it just felt a bit too dark at times and the sequences seemed to break a bit/fall out of order when doing a second playthrough.
Thanks a lot for the feedback! I got other complaints about how dark it is, so that's certainly something I'll look into. I also noticed that YouTube's compression algorithm doesn't like the noise filter, sorry for this one, I didn't even consider that someone might record a video of my game! Thanks for recording it, it was great
Cheers :)
Nice this was very good game I liked a lot well done keep it up!
Thanks!