Dark and Light Articles
Snail Games announced late last year that it was working on a mobile version of Dark & Light, but had only confirmed the Chinese version. However, it is now confirmed as a global mobile MMO that is "coming soon". The game's Facebook page has been quite active over the past month, revealing mounts, classes and more. On July 17th, the game finished its "Test Flight" with several key issues identified and addressed. The Android closed beta is scheduled to begin "soon".
Dark & Light has finally arrived on Steam Early Access. It's one of those games a lot of people have really been looking forward to playing. While we truly believe that there is a good, if not great, game inside the current version, it just feels like Dark & Light should have stayed in development for a longer period of time before releasing into Early Access.
The big day is finally here. Snail Games has announced that Dark & Light will officially launch into early access on Steam on Thursday, July 20th.
The Dark & Light Steam page has been updated with a new developer blog to show some of the work in progress that the team has been working on over the last little while. In this edition, a brand new feature called "The Beastiary" has been published to give players a look at some of the creatures they will encounter in the game. The team does give the warning that there are a few minor spoilers so read at your own risk.
The first closed beta event for Dark & Light has officially kicked off. The team indicated via Twitter that the response from interested fans was overwhelming and that a second, larger closed beta event will be held in the future.
During E3, Snail Games partnered with Nvidia to create a brand new Dark & Light video created using Ansel technology. With Ansel, players can literally take a screen, freeze time in game and apply filters, enhance the image and save it in a huge number of ways including panorama, wallpaper and "massive gigapixel" size.
The Dark & Light team has announced that closed beta sign ups for the first closed beta have opened up. Signs ups will be available from today through Thursday, June 15th, with the closed beta set to begin on June 20th. There will be a limited number of slots available to head over today to get signed up.
Snail games is offering a sneak peek at a few of the improvements that the Snail development team has made to Dark and Light, including new creatures and a brand new HUD/UI. Players interested in exploring and uncovering Dark and Light’s world, spoiler-free, may want to avoid the article.
Youtube user "Victor Z" has posted a new Dark & Light trailer that indicates the game will be "coming next month" (to Early Access) in its final moments. The video features a number of in-game vistas and footage accompanied by a haunting score.
The Dark & Light site has been updated with a new blog post to give fans a look at how magic will present itself in the game. The team is vested in making the use of magic unique to survival games. They plan to do this by taking elements from both RPGs and survival titles and "fusing" the systems together in a smoother, less common way than other games in either genre.
The Dark & Light team has participated in an in-house interview with Director Shen Yan about how the game world is being built, his favorite locations in D&L and the overall process of design. Yan turns his eye to The Sacred Path, a location filled with twenty unique areas.
The Dark & Light Facebook page has been updated with a brief post and a pair of screenshots showing off creatures that players can tame. One is the product of a volcanic location and is a fire-imbued catlike creature. The other seems to have a more rock-like appearance.
The Dark & Light team has posted a note on the games Chinese site that announces a delay to the start of the beta. While originally slated to begin beta testing in Q4 2016, a delay was implemented for Q1 2017. That has again been extended. If you use Google Chrome's in-built translator, you can read the announcement for yourself.
In a brief -- no, really, we mean it -- brief post on the Dark & Light Facebook page, the team reminds fans that the game is still a work in progress and that "development is still going strong".
Dark & Light is a magical world, it is part of everything in it. On the Sacred Path, players will find the center of all the magic, things that make the world behave as it does. According to developers, there are 25 unique places to discover along the path, each with its own creatures, plants, resources and weather.