⚠️ Warning: This game teaches players how to sing! 🎶 Puzzle-solving will vary greatly depending on your ability to match pitch and control your voice. 🧩👂🎤
( Side Note: This game was created over a few weeks, and while we've done our best to keep it as smooth and bug-free as possible, you might encounter the occasional hiccup. If something seems off, a quick restart should do the trick. Thanks for your patience and understanding! )

How to play:

Step 1 : SWITCH ON YOUR MIC!
Step 2 : Use the following keys to play the game. The ‘E’ and ‘R’ keys are central to the core gameplay. Press ‘E’ to listen to a creature’s voice, and hold ‘R’ to respond with the note they need. These keys allow you to interact meaningfully with in-game characters and embody the game’s core mechanic of attentive, intentional generosity.

About:

Notes for the Lightless is an experimental, poetic adventure that explores the power of generosity in a world cloaked in darkness. In this world, light is a sacred, dwindling resource. Players are guided by Netos, the disillusioned Goddess of Generosity, who, tired of humanity’s greed, transforms the protagonist, a former human, into a luminous being stripped of memory, to relearn the meaning of selfless giving from the ground up.

Game Mechanic tied with Lore:

Throughout Netos’s trials, players traverse shadowed, forsaken landscapes, where every encounter is a chance to restore what’s been lost. Each creature they meet carries a unique sound : a note that represents a specific kind of generosity they need. To help them, players must listen deeply and reproduce the correct pitch, not just symbolically, but with emotional precision. There’s no shortcut, no half-hearted gesture, true generosity takes effort, understanding, and intention. Each response to generosity is different, some creatures react with warmth, others with pain. Not all generosity is met with gratitude. The world of this game, like our own, isn't black and white; it's here that players begin to understand that truth.

Furthermore, as fragments of the protagonist’s light are shared, the world slowly rekindles, colors return, memories surface, and hope is restored. 

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Players must navigate moral choices: Who do you help? How much can you give before you lose yourself? What are the consequences of giving too freely or not at all? 

Notes for the Lightless invites players to question the true cost of compassion and the ripple effects of giving without thought.