The Town of light has been nominated in the “StoryTelling” cathegory of Games Connection Paris 2014, we will attend from 29th to 31th October, can’t wait to be there!

For this special occasion we created a brand new trailer, check it out!

2 weeks ago we launched a “survey” asking what do you prefer as a new update, we want to thanks everyone who answered on IndieDb or Twitter, it was the first experiment and we really appreciate your partecipation

You choose: Characters!

Character concept

It’s hard to speak about characters in a game that wants to describe the anguish and the harshness of mental institution; most of the time you were besieged by other patients and other people nevertheless the solitude was your only roommate.
In The Town of Light you will be extremely alone, roaming in the structure looking for the truth about your degence.

Some patients in your same room.

Characters are modeled and sculpted using Zbrush, then we import everything in Modo for the retopology, texturing and rigging. We have only 1 model for every patient but using or blendshapes we are able to change their physical appereance or even their facial expressions:

On Unity it’s possible to change these blendshapes with animations. Everything in The Town of Light it’s animated within Unity, it’s a bit harsh but it does his job.

The following character is designed and created by the guys from Big Rock Academy. They also created a new environment for the game.

These are the guys from the master course of Big Rock Academy, thanks to all of them:

• Marco Bastianon
• Riccardo Bellio
• Giacomo Colivicchi
• Nicola Toffoletto
• Lara Zacco

and their supervisors:

• Lorenzo Conticelli
• Leonardo Lezzi

That’s it for this update!

– We want to recreate as faithful as possible all the vegetation that surround the building, here are some images rappresenting the ivy we added this week.

– We are working on a new localization system in order to allow the community to help us translate “The Town of Light” in all possible languages!
If you are interested contact us at info[at]thetownoflight[dot]com!

– We did a major upgrade to optimize graphics and audio management.

– The work continues ceaselessly to enrich the environments of the game and the works on characters that will have a major role in the story of Renee, below a video of the first sculpting of Doriden.

And one of the concept for Renèe, our main character.

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facebook.com/thetownoflight

Indiegogo campaign is over.

We didn’t reach our goal, but we are going to complete the videogame anyway.
Now it’s possible to freely contribute on our website on the right sidebar.

Thanks for your support and help us sharing the project.

The asylum was a sort of permanent exhibition of human misery, where each one exposed their fear, their despair, their limits. Just like a trade show there were vendors who exhibited their goods proclaimed with fanfare and those who tried to hide it, locked in their corners, judging themselves not worthy of the public. Renèe, defeated by the inner pain, tried to hide away from everything.

When she was allowed to go in the park she always look for hidden corners and she huddled up there for hours. Immersed in nature, everything seemed distant in both space and in time.