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Lightbearer by Deathlymad

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made by Deathlymad for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Controls: WASD - Move E - Interact TAB - Show mouse Lightbearer explores a harrowing journey through an ever-changing, mysterious forest. As the bearer of precious artifacts, you must rely on your torch to navigate the twisting paths and ward off the shadows. With each step, the trees shift and morph, blocking your way and forcing you to forge a new path. Try to navigate through the forest in time all while unraveling its peculiarities. Can you make it to your destination to deliver the rare goods, or will the darkness consume you?…

(The game has to yet reach its potential but we believe in our concept and are excited to embark on the journey of developing it further!) Also please be patient with loading times. It has been tested in its web version. <3

EDIT: due to all the feedback on the lag issues i went ahead and updated the version in the webhost link with the couple lines it took to fix pre-occlusion in the hope that this is going to aleviate some of the issues. In the interest of fairness, the version on this website has not been updated it is still exactly the version uploaded on 2/5/23 at 2 am - @Deathlymad

Furthermore it has been brought to my attention that the loose scene is empty. if you want to retry just reload i guess :P

GitHub https://github.com/Deathlymad/LD53
Web Host http://h2802094.stratoserver.net/LD53/index.html
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/lightbearer

Ratings

Overall 1200th 2.558⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1213th 2.154⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1035th 2.788⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1156th 2.865⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 873th 3.192⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 743th 2.341⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1006th 2.19⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 848th 3.24⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

NuiN
02. May 2023 · 09:30 UTC
It's really laggy on web on my end
CodeForJoyCaro
02. May 2023 · 09:33 UTC
It was not easy to explore the environment because the controls did not work as expected.
ToSMaster
02. May 2023 · 09:37 UTC
Cool idea and great atmosphere! I struggled a bit with the controls. Camera seems really stiff and could use some improvements. Pressing tab to show the mouse seems a bit over complicated. But I am sure your final game will be great! Keep it up!
Sodoj
02. May 2023 · 09:38 UTC
A neat idea for a game with very thick atmosphere! Besides low framerate I experienced a glitch that would set your torch time to indefinite if you manage fiddle with interact button a couple of times. That did not prevent me in soaking up the woods though! Good job!
hotaloca
02. May 2023 · 09:38 UTC
How can I find the city? :smile: I like the overall athmosphere and moving trees/stones like a magical forest is a good concept (not sure in execution how you can outsmart the forest though and what strategies you could play). The game has a good mood, the light / sound really worked for the forest which is barely visible. I wish somehow the tourch would have an actual light - it felt weird the torch is emitting light from nowhere. Seeing all the inventory system etc. maybe a much lesser scope with only simple dialogs would have been sufficient for a jam, no?
Frib
02. May 2023 · 09:38 UTC
I also have a very low framerate on the webGL version.

I couldn't get out of the starting area :D and at some point I glitched into the default skybox. Not sure what I am supposed to be doing, I can place torches but other than that I just have a very small area to walk around in until I get teleported into the void. Got any hints to get further?
Iluvatar
02. May 2023 · 09:46 UTC
The controls were a bit glitchy, and I ended up stuck in the trees, but it's okay, I will not rate you for that, because I understand it must be pretty hard to make a 3D game like this in a short period of time.

I really loved the atmosphere and art, it's one of the best looking game I've played so far. Absolutely love the lighting and dark vibes. I wish it was more technically polished, but apart from that it was pretty cool! :)
🎤 Deathlymad
02. May 2023 · 09:50 UTC
Sorry about the poor performance. Tiles would need to be occluded for computation but that broke shortly before time ran out.
chesschaser
02. May 2023 · 10:22 UTC
Can always respect a 3d game. Great work!
MKRaw
02. May 2023 · 12:18 UTC
Nice mood
Timbaleek
02. May 2023 · 12:44 UTC
The mood in the dark forest and fog in the distance was very nice. I could intuitively walk to the city, so good game design. The inventories don't work and how long your light will last is not really explained. With a bit more time this game could be really cool :)
prachi
03. May 2023 · 01:12 UTC
Looked really pretty, but I was unable to get past the inventory screen. I clicked the x and it deleted the whole world :0
Agrimes
03. May 2023 · 01:48 UTC
Cool to make a 3D game like this for a game jam. Very laggy, but good atmosphere.
RenardGames
03. May 2023 · 12:45 UTC
Looks nice and moody!The idea was probably too big for the jam but I am interested to see it if you will develop it further!
Bastinus Rex
04. May 2023 · 11:39 UTC
I was hooked by the artstyle, but as you already said it's very laggy, but it's still really cool that you managed to do this !!
ruruie
07. May 2023 · 13:24 UTC
This is ambitious. I loved dimly seeing the woods move in the distance. Real spoop factor and a really intense sense of setting. Unfortunately, I seem to be clipping out of the world quite a bit, I suspect when the wood does a spin with me near the edges of cells.

For me, the mouse sense was very low so a slider for that would be helpful.
radgegames
09. May 2023 · 13:26 UTC
I applaud the attempt. I also suffered the frame rate issue but still enjoyed exploring for a bit. Great entry
TheSmellofOxygen
12. May 2023 · 16:11 UTC
I wish there was a fullscreen option for web! The dark atmosphere at least deserves a dark webpage background. I wanted to play more and could see the thought put into the game, from the character portraits to the dialogue, to the inventory system and the waypoints of light. Very cool, but unfortunately I was unable to play for very long because the webplayer had some terrible view controls. For some reason the camera rotation was not working as intended and I could only wiggle it a bit left and right, so I couldn't actually look hard to the left or right, only forward with a little variation, and it didn't seem to fully match my mouse movement with camera movement. If this gets a camera control fix, or even if the camera was tied to player rotation as a quick fix, I would definitely play again.
LDJam user 282870
16. May 2023 · 13:10 UTC
Controls were laggy, and unresponsive. Could hardly move at all. Sorry man, but the game played rough