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About This Game

「Welcome to Fanshu village. What kind of sacrifice will you make for your family?」

In the merged world between reality and imaginations, you will follow a little boy as our protagonist – Xi-Sheng keeps asking people lived in the village about the news of his young brother – Mu-Sheng. However, at the dusk when the views transiting from bright to dark, he doesn’t notice that there is something dangerous approaching…

Features

HalfLight is a third-person mystery adventure game developed by UE4 setting in a fictional world of 1940s Taiwan.



The design of all the puzzles is based on logic and common sense for every player to understand the situation quickly and to have an immersive experience when solving puzzles. Even though the puzzles will become more challenging as the story develops, once you observe the environment in detail, you will always find the clues to break through these obstacles.



Something unspeakable, it always appears unexpectedly and charges at you. What is it looking for? Who is it? Try to interact with the environment and use items around you wisely. That is the key to escape from the chase of the ones hiding in shadows.



Explore and seek for the truth behind this mysterious world. Lots of photos and notes are scattered in every corner of HalfLight. Through gathering these photos and notes, you will figure out the whole story behind this mysterious world.



In order to bring the native and nostalgic view of 1940s Taiwan to players, the voiceover Taiwanese. Furthermore, there are nearly a thousand Taiwanese lines mixed with Japanese, to present the life and the culture in that certain period when Taiwan was occupied by Japan.

About MATCHB

We are MATCHB, four university students from Taiwan with the full passion of playing and making video games. The idea of HalfLight came from our student graduation project, which even won the 1st prize in official Unreal Engine 4 Game Design Competition. After that, we decided to finish HalfLight in order to bring a slice of Taiwanese culture to every player around the world.