Press kit

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Fact sheet

In one line

Keep the Heart-Tree alive until dawn: a one-thumb game of light, a few minutes at a time.

Description

Dawnkeeper is a one-thumb game of light. Each night, the gloom creeps in from the edge toward a dying Heart-Tree. You flick lights into orbit around it, merge twins into brighter lights, and choose: keep a big light in orbit to hold the gloom back, or feed it to the heart. Nights last one to three minutes, play with one thumb, need no network and pause on their own whenever you leave.

At each dawn, the light you kept flows into the forest, which heals night after night. Every tenth of the forest brings back a line of its story and a new power, from the heart pulse to shooting stars. Every night has its sky and its wish, and up to three stars to earn; once the forest is whole, deep nights grow darker with every dawn in a row.

Features

• Flick, merge, keep or feed: seven lights, from the Spark to the Great Light.
• Nights of one to three minutes, one thumb, offline, fine on mute.
• A forest that heals night after night, ten lines of story and ten powers.
• A sky and a wish every night, three stars, dawns in a row and deep nights.
• The same night for everyone: no hidden help, no adaptive difficulty.
• No energy, no lives; ads only between nights, and nothing to buy makes you stronger.
• Everything drawn in code; music and sounds synthesized for the game, in D major pentatonic.
• English and French.

About Hinoro Studio

Hinoro Studio is an independent studio in France that makes games and apps for phones.