Description:
Catch and release fireflies in the middle of the forest at night. Find a way to open the door in front of you. This is a very short game (5-10 minutes) that is heavily focused on mood and atmospheric elements. (But no scary elements!) Wear your headphones!

Jam Details:
This game was made in the month of November for the GitHub Game Off 2021 jam. The theme of the jam was "bug." The game received the following rankings:

Category Rank (out of 531 entries)
Overall 59
Gameplay 163
Audio 4
Graphics 36
Innovation 103
Theme 40

The game was featured in the GitHub Blog!

Links:
Jam Submission Page
Source Code

Tools Used:

Updated 10 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorDiego Escalante

Comments

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This game is really amazing. You have done a fantastic job friend. The ambiance, mood, sounds and experience is just... wow! Well done!  I really enjoyed playing it.

Thank you for your comment and for trying out my game!

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This game is the best I've played so far. You worked really hard and it shows! 

The sound design and lighting are remarkable. I also love that your game page has the same color scheme.

All in all it was a wonderful experience. So glad I clicked on this one!

My only note would be to make the fireflies basic polygons like everything else instead of circles.

I loved tracking them and waiting for them to turn back on. The collect and let go mechanic was cool as well.

Giving the fireflies their own low-poly models is an interesting idea that I had not considered before. I initially envisioned their style to just be the circles that you see in the game but I never went back to review that after I built the rest of the low-poly world. Thank you for your feedback!

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gonna get a bit personal here..

I grew up in the south-east united states, where fireflies are a mainstay of summer nights. catching them is just like this game, where you look out for slow blinks, follow them, look again, follow, until you find the little bug. I loved it, and it's a highlight of my childhood. this summer, I moved to the north-west US, where there aren't any fireflies, and I missed them all summer.

this game gave me a little of that experience, especially because of the fantastic sound design and the commitment to having everything super dark when unlit. felt just like summer nights in the appalachian  mountains :')

I'm glad it made an impact on you. That was really nice to read. Thank you for the kind words!

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the graphic, the BGM, the mood is good, just it's too dark to find the fireflies