Lamplighter

September 2023 - December 2023

Finally, a game which I did not work on alone!

Lamplighter was a 2D metroidvania game based on lights!

Light would be a core mechanic of the game. For example enemies would behave differently based on if they were in the dark or not.

Now what if I told you that this was not my game? And I was not even a part of the creation process!

Around 2021-2022 (?), various LittleBigPlanet community members came together to make their own video game, Lamplighter! They were brainstorming ideas, whipping up drawings for various apsects of the game, it was really cool!

However, there was one massive problem: they did not know how to make games. They were great artists, but they did not know how to write a single line of code! So eventually, everyone moved on...

But then, a year later, one of the team members, "alimoneer01", who is also a friend of mine. wanted to work on the game again, and this time, he had a programmer he could ask, me!!!

I agreed to work on the game so we got set up to assemble back the team, with a few new ones! However, out of the ~20 original members, only 5 came back (including the aforementioned friend). But nonetheless, we got to work!

I still remember the day of the dev discord server's creation. We were just talking and talking about what the game could have, it was amazing!!!

But there was one huge problem... the project lead.

She was extremely unreliable. At the start she was very ethusiastic about the game, but two days later, she just disappeared. She was still active on other servers, but not on the dev server at all. No amount of pings could get her to even look at it.

Demotivated by this, I worked on the game less and less, until eventually just stopping altogether.

In hindsight, this was just sad. This could have been a game that would finally see the light of day, and the premise and theme of it was really interesting.

But as the old saying goes: One bad apple can spoil the whole barrel.

Finally, I would like to share a bit of concept art for the game.

They were created by alimoneer, and may give you a picture of how the game could have looked like later down the line.

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