An Island of Light

Wonderful little experience! It's a very nice scene, I sat and enjoyed it for a bit after the monologue was done.

Beautiful little experience. While there was very little gameplay, it was a nice meditative experience. And the art is really lovely. Great work!

I really loved the art! It's really too bad there wasn't more to do. I could see a ton of potential for a nice little game using this as the bedrock.

Very cute, and well polished-- down to little things like the light flickering, and the camera shaking.

That being said-- hardly a game. I'm sure you know that, it wasn't really meant to be a game, but yeah. It's always fun to see something unique, and I do appreciate the craftsmanship behind it, though!

Really nice! I love to see smaller, polished projects, even if it's not a "real" game. Glad you ended up making something for the jam :)

One thing though... it's still too interactive to be considered a meta island of non-interactivity 😥

Nice little game, very polished. 3D models look great! A unique take on the theme also.

wow this is really good! very polished and everthing that is there is very well done. this makes me dislike the rating system of gm48, because like what am I gonna give this for gameplay and audio... I really liked the rating system for GM48 (the 3 categories were fun, originality, and presentation) because it allowed for unique experiences, like this, to perform well in the ratings.

Neat little project, love your style as usual. Recoiled at the game using my full name (kinda glad I wasn't streaming).

Love how you managed to center your dialogue around a concise theme using the scenery you made, works very well in regards to a gamejam's time constraints. The models were really nice and clear (3D in GM is still a wonder to me so the fact you made this so quickly is even more impressive) and it felt nice and calming, much like it felt like it was intended to be. I like how you'd probably find yourself asking about the red eyes in the darkness at first and how they then become contextualized by Alice's dialogue (side note; my name is also Alice so playing this game was a very surreal experience to me), and in a similar symbolic and textual fashion I like how the scenery is described as a place of calm for Alice and how it amplifies both the line "I come here a lot" and the detail of the light flickering from time to time. A nice, short, interesting piece. Good job!

It's a shame about the lack of time that you had, but this is still some pleasant imagery!

All game aside, this is extremely pretty and written meaningfully. Lovely work!

such a charming aesthetic. I wasn't expecting there to be some deep dialogue when i started it! Caught me by (good) surprise. I love the use of the theme that you have done in this small experience. Such a close topic I wasn't expecting to be reflected and talked about in the gamejam!

Lovely little polished experience. The visuals and writing were good, loved the character design and the personality. Great idea for a mini game jam.

Gorgeous 3D models and a great message. Very well done!

Don't listen to the demons, they always lie! (full disclaimer: I believe in the spiritual and as such believe that much of what goes on in my head isn't there because I put it there.) Nice little...art piece (?), impressive 3D modeling for Gamemaker, good presentation, pace & atmosphere.

I think this is the smoothest 3d modeling I've seen in GM so far! I also liked the speech. Didn't feel too short, nor too long.

It was a nice and fresh experience!

Also if anyone feels too scared to try it out(at least I was at first at first), it's not scary at all so go ahead!

A very beautiful experience. I saw you mention that you were time limited but I'm glad you shared this as I think it's very relatable and a great take on the theme. The writing was well done and I felt captivated by the message and the atmosphere. There was a lot of tension with the flickering light and red eyes in the background, and I was bracing myself for something bad to happen. I feel like you always have a unique take on the theme, great work!

I played you motovation game on stream, now I need them feed backs. heres the link if you want to watch it again, https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1091776398?t=2m56s

not bad for gm 8 run.

Very profound, my username on my computer was the first 5 characters of an old email address I'd used when I'd built it online a few years ago, so Alice called me "boom4", which sounded a little out of context given the serious tone of the monologue 😅 but overall, the detail and charm of this is wonderful, great job!

Really cute art for a minimalistic game that just asks you relax.

My only complaint is using the username of the computer, since that's my legal name so it caught me off guard!

That's really cool 3D, too bad you didn't fully participate this time around! I like the light flickering, although it feels a bit... stressful? like i'm scared it might just go off and never turn on

Not sure what else to add to be honest

Very cool. It's really neat to see a 3D game made with Gamemaker even if it's more of an "experience". Good job

Beautiful 3D work. Your game was very enthralling and evocative. I was hanging onto every word. I was a bit scared that the light was going to go out too! Just shows how invested I was. It was a really nice and meditative experience. I think you really captured my attention by pulling my name in the beginning. One of my teammates had played your game and immediately called all of us to check it out because he felt the pulling your name thing was just super super cool. The dialogue was also very natural and made me want to keep reading. Loved the metaphor of island of light you used to connect to the theme. Whenever I do game jams, I get really excited and then a lot of anxiety/bad feelings kicks in. Fear of failure... of messing up... a lot of feelings that tell me I'm not good enough or of being a screw up. I think your game was kinda the perfect thing to play for me right now. Very chill and I felt better afterwards.

Your 3D is always great, I was really invested in the story and dialogue. It felt beautiful and sincere. Not sure how you pulled my name from the website but that was really cool. Could've done with some atmospheric sounds or soft music and/or text sounds, but loved every other aspect of it so much. So simple, yet so complex in many aspects. Awesome job 😊😍

I enjoyed this. Great art and 3d visuals too.

This is not a game