Lights Out

A point & click game where you turn off the lights.

Summary

Role: Sole Developer
Engine: Unity
Code Language: C#
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux
Jam Theme: Balance
Jam Length: 3 Days

Download (Itch): https://carter-games.itch.io/lightsout

Lights out is a super simple game where you keep the lights out. The name of the game sums up what you do. However, it’s not that simple. There are 7/15/26 malfunctioning lights in the room which constantly turn themselves back on. Your job is to keep them off for as long as you can. If all the lights are on, you lose.

Approach & Post Motrem

This was one of the first game jams I took part in for the fun of it. I wanted to keep the scope low and achieveable and what I ended up with was a good simple project that I’m still happy with to this day. This was my entry into a Score Space game jam, a jam where streamers play the games in the jam and compete to get the highest score. Each entry needed to have a leaderboard or score display in order to be a valid entry.

This jam was certainly an interesting one. What I learned the most from this one was the fact that the game can look good and run well, but if the theme isn’t glaringly obvious, people won’t pick up on it. This I feel is why I had such a bad score on the theme adherence this time around. I felt this was rather a shame as I thought I had a nice interpretation of the job of the player to keep the lights from taking over by turning them off, therefore keeping the balance in the game. But hey ho, next time I’ll be more blunt with the theme in my game.

On another note, I took the time to rate as many games as I could, focusing on the litle guys. These been the games that get ignored / overshadowed by the polished and looked at titles. I’m pretty sure I only got so many rating because of the fact that I took the time to rate and comment on each of their games.