FIRST LIGHT

A story-rich arcade brick-breaker where every wall you break gives back a memory the Fog took.

FIRST LIGHT is a story-rich arcade brick-breaker built around one family’s century. Each of its 132 levels opens with a memory, told by one of five narrators, sealed inside an old cabinet against the Fog that takes unwitnessed things. Classic paddle-and-ball play; six to eight hours of story underneath it.

The telling

• 132 memories across four acts — a grandmother’s river town, a father’s long yard, a boy’s 1986 arcade summer, and the fourth act the machine was built to keep
• Fully voiced by five narrators, one memory before every level. Listen, or skip straight to the bricks
• Choose your teller. Taylor speaks in the voice you pick, male or female
• Four paintings hidden behind the four bosses, revealed brick by brick
• An original 64-song soundtrack, nearly three hours, scored so each memory plays the song that agrees with it

The game

• Honest arcade brick-breaking: reflexes, angles, and nerve. Easy to start, hard to put down
• A capsule economy that pays for risk — stack multipliers, bank speed, grow the light cannon, or catch the black pill on purpose
• Four difficulties, from a gentle telling to one-life INSANE
• Boss walls where the Fog itself fights back. Play calm; walls come down for patient hands
• 33 achievements, three save campaigns, and a high-score board with one name already on it: M-E-G

Afterglow

Beat it for the telling. Come back for AFTERGLOW: just the music, no dying, endless.

• Official trailer (0:55) — watch on YouTube
• “There You Are” (4:43), the game’s vocal credits song — watch on YouTube
• Opening cinematic (1:54) — the game’s cold open, in both castings: female voice · male voice. The same scene in two tellings is the clearest look at the choose-your-teller casting
• Unedited b-roll — available on request, no music or commentary, for outlets who need clean footage

• 132 hand-built levels; every one of them replaced a machine-generated original
• 185 recorded narration takes across five voices
• A 64-song original score, close to three hours of music
• The script was written to never name the protagonist’s gender; the player picks the narrator’s voice
• The high-score board ships with one name already on it. You find out whose

Press & creator enquiries: press@playfirstlight.com

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