Awarded gamesAmateur Division
Award for excellenceTomoshigami of Luminous Village
General Description
| Title | Tomoshigami of Luminous Village |
|---|---|
| Platform | PC |
| School | HAL Osaka College of Technology & Design |
| Winner's name | 12FPS |
Reason
Congratulations for winning the Award for Excellence! Personally speaking, this is the game I appreciated the most.
Especially its visual is by far superior to other games; while some games compromise somewhat in visual, it did almost no compromise to successfully create a world of beautiful art aquarium.
By the way I like the autumn stage best; trees whose leaves have turned red were very beautiful.
I also noticed particularity about camera work. While, in 3D games, camera is usually operable with the right stick, in this game, camera cannot be operated and leaving everything to camera work by the game and, to compensate for that, the position and angle of camera was well considered to represent the world of this beautiful art aquarium.
(On the other hand, I also want to see the beautiful world freely operating a camera. I think this is because it is a good game.)
Regarding the play, while puzzle-like operation is only to “light lanterns (to lead Hikariuo)” and only three gimmicks are provided, those elements are skillfully combined to create a stage.
Small number of elements means that users can play the game without learning a lot of things. On the other hand, however, there is concern that unless the story is plotted well, it can be arid or the stages become much the same. But there is no such problems in this game and I consider the number of elements is quite appropriate for the player to concentrate on “how to solve this puzzle with these elements”.
Puzzles that make the player think, “oh I see, this is the way”, puzzles requiring severe timing, and easy-to-solve puzzles like a bonus stage are arranged in good balance in each stage; I could enjoy play the game to the end without getting bored. It is a wonderful game completed generally at a high level.
Shunsuke Komatsu, Pokelabo, Inc.
Work Introduction
This is a puzzle action game to give light leading “Hikariuo”, fishes enveloped in light, leading them with light of lanterns.
This is a game particular about expressing a “world of art aquarium” where light and life are in harmony.
The player controls the main character “Tomoshigami” who manipulates the light to lead Hikariuo floating on the stage.
Using the light, the player accomplishes a mission given in each stage such as to take Hikaridama on the stage and light lanterns.
However, Hikariuo moves unpredictably; it returns to its nest when you are not looking or lured by a school of other fishes.
Four stages with a motif of four seasons are presented.
Every stages is expressed with overwhelming quality; the space of light and life such as trees representing each season and creatures other than Hikariuo will fascinate you before you realize it.
This is a fantastic game admirably expressing spectacles from bottom of valleys to water surfaces where we cannot go in reality.
