Towards the Enduring Light | 向光而行
A short minimalist 'walking simulator' responding to the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak, inspired by real life events and news reports of the city since the quarantine. Created for 'Gaming Spirit Bomb' - a fundraiser Game Jam to support doctors and victims of the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China (See other entries here).
Literal walkthrough: press right arrow to move forward [insert game title here]
As the official sites only supports payment methods in Chinese RMB, all donations here on itch.io will be transferred by me to Tongji Hospital Tongji Medical College of HUST. NEKCOM Entertainment based locally in Wuhan will personally facilitate the donation process to ensure full transparency and direct transfer. (until the coronavirus situation ceases/ call for donations end)
Inspiration for the game came from reports of the the normally bustling city of Wuhan suddenly empty after the quarantine, akin to sights commonly only found in post-apocalyptic genre works. However, a viral short of an unknown hero risking his life to deliver a box of facemasks reminded us of the value of humanity and compassion in the face of disasters.
We originally intended to create a 2D homage to works such as What Remains of Edith Finch, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, or more aptly, The Graveyard and Passage. We also tried to challenge ourselves by developing in the open source Godot engine for the first time. Unfortunately due to a combination of engine unfamiliarity and time constraints, we had to strip away a lot of planned interactions and content to just focus on the core concept and emotional experience.
The final result is pretty short and a bit rough around the edges but we hope it's worth your time.
Credits:
Concept: Allan Xia
Code: Gordon Larson
Art: Allan Xia, Matthias Chua
Sound (Freesound.org):
Smooth cinematic intro’ by tyops
‘Footsteps Concrete A’ by InspectorJ
‘Soft Wind’ by florianreichelt
‘Autumn Forest Wind’ by Akacie
‘HopefulAmbience1’ by RichardCulver
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Development log
- Linux Build ReleasedFeb 27, 2020
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Visually stunning. A beautiful, heartfelt tribute.
wow, you're art style is amazing!!! how did you create this? i would love to know your process
Thank you, it was a short gamejam so my friend and I collaged photos from Wuhan and applied a pixel art filter on top. Animations were hand drawn frame by frame.
wow whats the filter though? i would like to try it for one of my games.
中国人不骗中国人！
I am Chinese,too.This was passed,But we should remember it.
atmospheric... it's in the post-end scene of this vid:
everyone is over reacting to corona. corona has killed 183,000
sure we reduced the potential deaths by a lot, but at the cost of 20% of the world economy and most small businesses. here is a list that shows that corona's 183,000 is literally nothing compared to other causes of death. nothing at all: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-by-cause
in fact, 50 million people die every year (from another, newer source. do a little of your own research) corona = almost nothing
btw, im not saying to not react. do social distancing, N95 masks, and keep the old and those with poor immune systems home. that should prevent a good percent of deaths without harming the economy much. also, the quarantine is causing countless already poor countries before the pandemic to now be so poor due to the quarantine for various reasons that people are literally starving to death and rioting everywhere (im not exaggerating). congratulations morons, i hope your happy with your quarantine. quit ruining the economy out of fear, stupidity, and ignorance. if people freaked out like this about everything, civilization would have ended long ago. the only reason people fear corona is because its new and wasn't there before. get over your irrational fear already.
Don't react to corona, enjoy the corona. https://lynxjsa.itch.io/covid-ops
im not saying to not react. do social distancing, N95 masks, and keep the old and those with poor immune systems home. should prevent a good percent of deaths. just dont over react and do idiotic things like quarantines
I'm sure you would consider it an overreaction if it was happening to your family, and encourage everyone to ignore you as you die in order to preserve the economy.
first of all, unless your immune system is terrible or your 50+, your chances of death might as well be 0%. hardly anyone is dieing. look up the top causes of death. corona is nothing compared to the total of 50 million deaths every year as of a few years ago. also, im not saying to not react. do social distancing, N95 masks, and keep the old and those with poor immune systems home.should prevent a good precent of deaths. also, the quarantine is causing countless already poor countries before the pandemic to now be so poor due to the quarantine for various reasons that people are literally starving to death and rioting everywhere (im not exaggerating). congratulations morons, i hope your happy with your quarantine.
"unless your immune system is terrible or your 50+"
Wow, last I checked the average life expectancy in the United States is 78 years. So, dying 28 years early -- no big deal! Your comments speak eloquently of your supreme selfishness. You don't think you're going to die of it, so you don't give a shit about your potential for spreading it to people who will. Coooool!
Very comforting and beautiful <3
Thank you so much, please stay safe!
Enjoyed playing it and it has a great music as well! And everyone stay safe!
Thank you so much, please stay safe 🙏
Wonderful work. Props to all the doctors, deliverers, service workers for doing their jobs in these times and of course, Dev. for bringing out the message. Stay strong, everyone!
Thank you! It's unfortunate to see the crisis continue escalate around the world since we made this piece. We all need to stay strong to get through this together 🙏
Very nice. I really liked the animation at the end. My one criticism would be that the music is panned pretty hard left, and I don't really see why. It would make more sense if it was just in the middle. Lovely work though
Thank you for the kind words. I'm not quite sure about the music issue sorry! It comes out balanced on both channels for me (on headphones).
加油！
一起加油！
Ну охуеть теперь, симулятор держания кнопки вправо. Скоро в игры вообще не нужно будет играть.
Thank you so much for your kind words Jordan! We'll get through this together!
Beautiful
Thank you!
Terrific work, thanks for making this. I'm a Linux Godot developer. I'm offering to export and test a Linux version. Message me if interested.
Thank you! Can you email me at allan@allanxia.com? I've exported a Linux version, if you could give a test that would be great!
Absolutely stunning, with an amazing message. Thank you so much for making this. The world needs to see this.
Rest in peace, Dr. Li Wenliang, may your research continue making the world a better place.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
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GREAT MESSAGE
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pray for chine! be strong
作为在武汉上学的学生，必须要支持一下！武汉加油！
请保重！一切都会好起来的！