Until the Morning Breaks

"Don’t let the fire go out" - so said the last person who let their fire go out.

The sun has been captured by the wolf and the moon by the flightless bird. Collect the three stones of morning to break this night and greet a new day. A word to the wise, don’t let the fire go out. Dark things walk in the night.

Description

You play as a young savior burdened with the task of collecting the lost morning stones. Collecting the stones and bringing them to your bonfire will break the curse of the wolf and flightless bird.

Along the way you will encounter hapless animals lost in the darkness, and monstrosities of the never ending night - you'd best avoid the later. The only true victory is to save these poor animals before placing the last morning stone onto the fire. Otherwise, the poor creatures will be lost to the darkness forever.

No matter what happens you will always have your bonfire and your faithful companion, snuffles. No daemon of the night can take those from you...

Controls

• Move with WSAD or the arrow keys
• Run by pressing space
• Cut trees by pressing space when facing a tree
• To pick up a log press space while facing a log
• To put a log on the fire press space when facing the fire
• Press period '.' to skip to the credits

For greatest immersion set your resolution to 1280 x 720 and activate the full screen mode in game.

There are 3 cannon difficulty modes, which can be selected from the credits page. There is an additional "Good Luck" mode, which I have been unable to beat myself. So, if you find the mode, good luck.

Attribution

Game Code - Alexander Griffith (GPL3+)
Game Art - Alexander Griffith (CCBY 4)
Font (Avara) - (OFL)
Font (Inconsolata) - (OFL)
Sounds Effects - InspectorJ, JoseAgudelo, Dobroide &Gerainsan (CC0)
Library (Lume) - RXI (MIT/X11)
Library (anim8,bump,gamera) - Enrique Cota (MIT)
Engine (LÖVE) - LÖVE Dev Team (Zlib)
Language (Fennel) - Calvin Rose (MIT/X11)

This was a submission to the 2021 Kindred Game Jam. The theme options were "penguins" and  "The fire Mustn't Go Out".

The source code can be found at: https://gitlab.com/alexjgriffith/until-the-morning-breaks