{"id":598,"date":"2025-08-07T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/?p=598"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:06:09","slug":"light-the-way-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/light-the-way-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Light the Way Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"598\" class=\"elementor elementor-598\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11de049b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"11de049b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a697bff e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5a697bff\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" 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data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Well it has finally happened.\u00a0 I got my little game up onto <a href=\"https:\/\/mothergrimmn.itch.io\/light-the-way-a-grimm-design\">Itch.io.<\/a> I had wanted to place it up on steam, but there appeared to be a $100.00 deposit that I just didn&#8217;t have at the moment. My minion reminded me there was Itch.io and I ran over there to upload it.\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mothergrimmn.itch.io\/light-the-way-a-grimm-design\">GO CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW!\u00a0 FREE TO PLAY!<\/a><br \/><br \/><strong><em>The Pitch:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>This is a fun ,\u00a0completely harmless, and\u00a0 totally normal\u00a0 game. Your goal is to light the way for Mother Grimm by choosing the correct lyrics to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NwqRUh9Xfvg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">modified nursery rhythm<\/a>.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll have six attempts. Good Luck.<br \/><br \/><strong><em>The Reality:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>I really wanted to make a simple game (5-20 min play through to get all six? endings) to test out what I knew as a &#8216;jack-of-all-trades&#8217; so to speak.\u00a0 Two\u00a0 previous attempts at designing a simple game ended up on the back burner &#8211; they ended up not being small or simple.\u00a0 I finally thought of a fun idea that was short enough to be entertaining, but hopefully enjoyable enough to be remembered.\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>IF YOU NOTICE ANY ISSUES PLEASE LET ME KNOW.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> This is my first game and I think I played through it well enough to make sure everything worked properly.\u00a0 This was meant to be done in a month, in reality it took me about 3 months.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1949949c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1949949c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e3c9959 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1e3c9959\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bug_1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-401\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light the Way &#8211; A Grimm Design Game Well it has finally happened.\u00a0 I got my little game up onto Itch.io. I had wanted to place it up on steam, but there appeared to be a $100.00 deposit that I just didn&#8217;t have at the moment. My minion reminded me there was Itch.io and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_canvas","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lighttheway_itchio_thumb.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}