‘A Beacon’ has a steam page! Demo coming soon. Wishlist A Beacon — a dark medieval comedy point and click adventure where chaos is ready to meet you at every corner. Steam → https://store.steampowered.com/app/5308630/A_Beacon/

As well as random lighting effects and dust particles, I’ve been adding and composing some music.

So I’m quite picky (I always knew this). I decided to redraw some scenes, mainly the church, as it was just huge and dull. I give you the new church:

Where to start… Ok so I gave up on S&Box because the licensing is a nightmare. I then spent an age creating a small engine with pygame-ce. And here’s the mad scientist part: an editor!

So there’s that and so many crazy details I don’t know where to start. I’ve managed to iron out a lot of problems I’ve had with positioning and a sorts of things I thought S&Box did an ok job of but not really. I now have full control.

Above is a montage of some new scenes I’ve been working on. Not In-Game Footage — unlike GTA 6, this will be very close to the actual artwork (not a realistic or valid comparison, I know).

FYI I use Adobe Fresco , and I highly recommend it. It’s totally free and very easy to use. Randomly, I started this project with the graveyard scene. I was in Wales visiting family and started doodling in Fresco. I then realised I’d spent hours on it finger‑painting. So I bought an iPad Pro and a Pencil and started adding to it and creating more pieces.

A Beacon is a point-and-click adventure set in a dark medieval fantasy world, with humor — actual humor, not the odd giggle buried in 14 hours of fetch quests. I am heavily influenced by Monkey Island, Monty Python and early Blackadder comedy-stylings.

Build wise it is a solo project I’m working on using s&box engine and illustrating everything by hand in Adobe Fresco. It’s early days but yeah.

Here is a snippet of game play and some screen shots so far. I don’t want to give away too much so here’s a sneak-peak. More too come as and when 🪦