I was following Francisco Gonzalez’s development of “Lamplight City” but I didn’t mention it in this thread because I was worried by the fact that he didn’t have a publisher and that the publishing of the game was a bit uncertain. But now I’m very happy to know that the game has finally found a publisher and I can’t wait to play it, which reminds me of “Gabriel Knight”.
He is also the artist behind “Shardlight” (a collaboration with Wadjeteye Games), released in 2016. Here are a few screenshots:
I too just stumbled upon Lamplight City and was intrigued by the looks of it. I’ve seen comparisons to GK1 before but never really felt that. To me it is a hard flashback to The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The case of the serrated scalpel - something about the shading of orange in the night time shots which TLFSH also did
I recognised the name of the artist, Ricardo Juchem, and realised he did the really cool pixel drawing of Nighthawks as posted by @LowLevelin this post.
There’s very little information about the game at the moment since it’s not due to release until 2019. Also the premise described on their website is sliiiiightly cheesy to me (and done before), but the artwork and style is enough for me to keep an eye on it.
My backer number is around 1200, did I really come so late to the party?
Wow, great to see so much support for an adventure game from a smaller developer on Kickstarter again, it’s like the good old days!
No. You have backed within the first 48 hours. AFAIK there was a Twitter(?) post from Jan Böhmermann that made the Kickstarter (more) popular. Beside that, there were several reports in the press.
i’m a bit torn if I should back this or not. It sounds like plenty of fun, but most screenshots seem to have brown and grey as predominant colors. Maybe those were all the rage in the '60s, but I find them a bit … challenging to look at. OTOH, I have to admit that I am a secret adorer of Nora Tschirner, especially in her role as Halluzinelle in Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot. So there’s incentive to play the game … tough decision.
As the game has reached the funding goal you could just wait for the release (and some reviews). Or are you interested in some of the backer exclusive stuff?
