About This Game

2021 IGF Nuovo Award Finalist

2021 Korea Game Awards Indie Game Award, Good Game Award Finalist

2020 BIC Awards Excellence In Experimental

2020 GIGDC Bronze Prize

2020 Seoul Government G-RANK Challenge Seoul Prize

2020 SOTAESAN FILM FESTIVAL Official Selection

2020 IGN JAPAN INDIE GAME WEEK Official Selection

2020 BIGS Official Selection

Chase the light. Until your wings melt.

Chasing Light is an Icarus Simulation where you weave wings out of a game and soar toward the sun.

The game you make is called Chasing Light, too.

Within the budget you're given, pick the music, lay in the sound effects, and set the number and speed of enemies.

Fail to reach 100% on the box-office forecast, and there won't be a next time.

Every decision you make becomes a feather in your wings.

The developer will lend a hand too, so don't worry too much. Oh, I'm not speaking figuratively. I mean the real developer's hands.

Of course, those aren't the only hands on your wings.

The Investor shoves the market in your face, and the Critic trots out identity.

And the Senior? He warns you that calling a game a work of art is dangerous, and that you must never forget it's a product.

The closer you get to the sun, the more your wax melts away.

Your name is Director. Your job is director, too. After all, in this world, a name is a job title.

But the Judge in the courtroom of your visions doesn't ask about anything as petty as your job.

All he does is bellow at you to tell him what you "do."

You make games. So what on earth is it that you do?

You will spend seven days answering that.

The visions don't end at the courtroom.

A child who talks like an old man, and a ferry that calls you son.

Recruits presenting business cards instead of arms.

And a Pope who looks like a piece of plumbing.

What happens once your wings have melted away, you ask?

Don't worry. According to the Judge, falling from the sky is a perfectly legitimate kind of "doing."

Fall.

For there will be light.