Lit
You can read what is coming: the bend, the fallen trunk, the figure standing in your lane. The pack reads you just as clearly and eats into your lead by 2.6 metres every second.
In development
DarkHours
A forest road at night that does not want you on it.
Drive until dawn. Fourteen of them are running behind the car, and the only thing that tells you how close they are is the same switch that tells them where you are.
You can see the road. So can they.
One button, no right answer
Everything else in Dark Hours is a consequence of the light switch, which you will press every few seconds and never feel good about.
Dark
They lose you at 4.5 metres a second. You are now driving a forest road at 120 km/h by moonlight, and the tree you hit is the one you never saw.
The bulbs take about a fifth of a second to come up, which is long enough that flicking them on is a decision rather than a reflex.
What the mirror is for
| While you are | The gap |
|---|---|
| Running with headlights on | closes 2.6 m/s |
| Running dark | opens 4.5 m/s |
| Below a third of top speed | closes 1.4 m/s |
| Recovering from a crash | hands them 9 m |
| Within 7 m of the nearest one | it lunges |
Built around the dark
Crashing never kills you
Hitting a tree scrubs your speed to roughly a third and hands the pack nine metres. Being slow with them on you is what kills. The crash is the setup, not the punchline.
The camera never shakes
Continuous shake hid the one thing you need in the dark: the shape of the road. Impact is sold with a short kick of field of view that never moves the horizon.
The heartbeat is the only sound that changes speed
Engine and wind are deliberately dull, so your ear stops hearing them. The heart rate is the dread meter out loud, and it is the one sound you end up tracking.
Same seed, same road
The forest streams in endlessly but every run is seeded, so a road can be handed to someone else exactly as you drove it, down to the tree that stopped you.
Coming soon
Dark Hours is being built in-house at Rokon Tech. There is no release date yet - ask us and we will tell you when it has one.