Absence Of Light

This is only my second "semi serious" project. Made for the 2024 "My First Game Jam". Try to survive as long as you can, feeding off of light sources to keep you alive.

Thank you BrowntulStar for playing my game! :D After watching your stream, you gave me a ton of new ideas that I can't wait to implement! Now I have a clear list of goals to get this prototype closer to an Alpha version :)

Work that I have planned for future updates:

1. Sensitivity options & other in game preferences

2. Make red light not affect enemies (wasn't a feature but I like the idea) Also I think I'm going to make the color change be triggered by battery level, to give the flashlight more effect on gameplay.

3. Make flashlight damage effect deactivate when flashlight off

4. Better tutorial

5. Make timer not start until you pick up the flashlight

6. Make overhead lights less common

7. Add a clear objective that allows you to complete the game and not just "survive as long as you can"

8. I really liked the "escape room" idea. I might steal that from ya :D

9. Make batteries less common & get rid of the ability to carry multiple batteries (or have other items, such as a camcorder, that uses the batteries as well) and make changing batteries manual instead of automatic

10. Make "unlockable rooms" and keys a bit less common, and add more variety to them

11. More levels

12. More items and enemies

13. Specific enemies and events that only appear during low Sanity

14. Secret areas only revealed by using the flashlight

15. Make it so using the flashlight affects the light level stat

16. Give "light level" a better name, or possibly get rid of it all together in favor of using Sanity only for those mechanics