Fantastic Flash Download: Beacon
The folks over at Ludum Dare are having a contest. The theme is caverns. The fine folks at JayIsGames highlighted a particularly amazing entry named Beacon, by a user named ChevyRay. It's a small, free, downloadable platformer. You play a small man who has fallen into a cave, with no light to guide him out. As he hears the creatures of darkness close in for the kill, a strange orb of light appears, and begins to guide him through the blackness. The gameplay is exquisitely paced, wonderful at evoking emotion, and has an ending worth waiting for. I highly recommend you play this great little game.
Beacon [Ludum Dare]
[via: JayIsGames]
Sgt. Sausagepants
Posted to Video Games on 9 September 2009
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Two tiny thumbs up.
Wow. The bats in that game actually shocked me the first time, haha.
But that was a very emotional game. I loved it! Great (but slightly predictable) ending, too. :( I wish there was more! :(
The game was kind of nice at first, but then it just ended in a restart-the-entire-level-from-scratch-athon for me. Maybe it was just my computer, but the game kept slowing down a little in some places, especially during jumps. The ending was kind of "meh" as well. Reviews on other sites also call the game emotional, but for the game ended up being such a fast-paced platformer that I had difficulty feeling any other emotion than frustration.
All in all, though, the creator did a much better job with it than I could've with only 48 hours to make the game.