'Recently I met with [Kevin Mabie of Red Blue Games] to talk about Sparklite and take a look at a demo. The story follows a female engineer named Ada who has to save the world of Geodia by taking down the evil Baron. Sparklite powers everything in Geodia and if harnessed safely, it doesn’t leave a negative impact. However, that leads to our villain, the Baron, polluting the world by aggressively mining and burning Sparklite for power.
"[...] we really wanted to confront greed as a whole—especially when it disregards the effects/damage it causes to everyone else and the environment,” Mabie said about the villain’s motivation. “The villain in Sparklite, the Baron, is inspired from the robber barons following the industrial revolution era, often characterized as in pursuit of wealth and power.”
After crashlanding on Geodia, Ada runs into corrupted Gremlins and creatures tarnished by the Baron’s greed. Equipped with a wrench, she collects Sparklite passively to upgrade her gear and fuel a floating town known as The Refuge. This is where NPCs take Ada to after falling in battle.
The demo immediately presents me with a way to upgrade my wrench into a multi-tool through the use of patches. Attaching those to a Patch Board on Ada’s wrench increases her health, damage, and energy used for special abilities. The special abilities function as Gadgets in Sparklite, tying into Red Blue Games’ focus on science.'
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