Deathlight

A side-scrolling shoot ’em up with elements of the ”bullet hell” subgenre, focused on avoidance and ”economic” weapon use for clearing paths rather than dominating the screen. The game takes influences from 80’s science fiction and early black metal, the latter which sets the tone of the game’s plot of betrayal and a mission doomed to fail. 

Deathlight was developed and released as a result of a 10 week development cycle by freshmen students of the University of Skövde, Sweden, during the first quarter of 2010. The development team published themselves as Roughline Entertainment.

Staff

Jonas Wahlstedt - Lead Game Design/Writing
Martin Wilhelmsson - Game Design
Sander Danielsson - Game Design
Sebastian Lundqvist - Game Design

Dan Bergh - Music/Sound Effects/Sound Programming/Project Lead
Pontus Berggren - Sound Effects

Ricky Löfqvist - Lead Programming
Alex Hultman - Programming
Sigrid Johnsson - Programming

Andreas Karlsson - Lead Graphics
Filip Engman - Art Director
Carl Stenmark - Graphics
Henrik Örneblad - Graphics
Marcus Nylund - Graphics
Patrik Ånberg - Graphics

Setup
Extract/unzip the downloaded package into one and same directory. Run the game by executing the "Deathlight" file (Deathlight.exe).

Game Controls

INTERFACE

Menu navigation: arrow buttons

Confirm: ENTER

Quit: ESC

Back: X 

GAME

Vehicle navigation: arrow buttons

Fire: Z

Shift: Graze Mode