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Ratings | x4 | x8
Release Date 8 March 2016
Release Type Commercial
Content Advisory Occasional, mild | None | Mild
Operating System Windows
Setting Sci-Fi
Genre Drama
Story Original
Play Length Full Length Game
Language English
Graphics 320x200, 32-Bit Colour
Downloaded 1,387 All Time

About

The world ended on the day the bombs fell. Since then, it's always been like this: disease, hunger, death. The ruling Aristocrats — a faceless oligarchy that controls all resources have unchallenged authority. There's never enough food, water, or vaccine to go around. The rich receive regular doses of vaccinations in exchange for their unconditional government support. The poor live in fear, superstition, and squalor until they die. Amy Wellard, a young woman reluctantly working for the government to qualify for the vaccine lottery, believes there's a cure and she's going to find it. Even if it costs her her life.

Grundislav Writing, Design, Coding
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Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 1 - In Search of the Skunk-Ape Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 1 Deluxe Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 2 - The Lost Galleon of the Salton Sea Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 2 Deluxe Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 3 - The Sorceress of Smailholm Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 4 - Horror at Number 50 Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 5 - Land of the Rising Dead
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 6 - Scourge of the Sea People Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 7 - The Cardinal Sins Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 8 - Relics of the Past Art, Writing, Scripting
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Warrior Within Case 1 - Wrath of the Skunk Ape Disapproves of this version of his game
Blue Lobe Inc. voice cameo
Carver Island 2: Mrs. Rodriguez's Revenge Creator
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Dumbass Drivers! DEMO Voice acting, death by dangerous driving
Fridge Follies Spanish translation
Granny Zombiekiller Demo Creator
Granny Zombiekiller in Mittens Murder Mystery Creator
Hard Space: Conquest of the Gayliks! Coffee and Donuts
John Sinclair- Voodoo in London Ben Jordan Sprites
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Limey Lizard: Waste Wizard! Voice and Testing
Little Girl in Underland Scripting, Sound, & Voice Acting
Narcoleptic Weight Loss Expert Voice acting
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Tea For Two: A Detective Logan Case Voice Acting
The Adventures of Fatman Voice acting.
The Art of Dying Betatester
The coming of age - a Lorna Bains whodunit Additional Coding
The Crackwell Legacy nothing, idiot!
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Aeronuts proof-reading
AGS Awards Ceremony 2008 Cursors and trophies
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Dinner for Pigeons Testing
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Hope Art
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Oceanspirit Dennis 2
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Oceanspirit Dennis: Scourge of the Underworld test game & templet
OceanSpirit Dennis: Scourge of the underworld HD
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OSD Archipelago Adventures 1 Australian Translations
OSD Moby GearWhaleDX Voice Acting
RAM Ghost Object Donation
Shifter's Box - Outside In Scripting, Graphics, Story, Design
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Technobabylon Graphics
The Art of Dying Betatester
The Charnel House Trilogy Graphics
The coming of age - a Lorna Bains whodunit Additional Coding
The Journey Down: Over the Edge Testing
The Rebirth/The Reaper The Reaper
The Search for Oceanspirit Dennis Art for Dennis
This City at Night Story, artwork
This City at Night - DEMO Story, graphics
Towel Day - H2G2 Based Game Some Testing
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Unavowed Art

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Ancient Aliens - The Roots of Sound Additional Game Design and Testing
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Technobabylon Graphics
The Charnel House Trilogy Graphics, programming
The Perfidious Petrol Station Testing
Unavowed Portraits
Whispers of a Machine Portrait Art

DaveGilbert Producer
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 1 Deluxe Receptionist (Voice)
Bestowers of Eternity - Part One Creator
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Blackwell Epiphany Writing, programming, voiceover directing
Blackwell Legacy, The Coder/Designer/Writer
Blackwell Unbound Design, coding, writing
Eyes of the Jade Sphinx
Gemini Rue Voice Directing & Casting
Hard Space: Conquest of the Gayliks! Pragmatic Puzzle Suggestions
He Watches (DEMO) QA/Testing
Kathy Rain VO Recording & Direction
Limey Lizard: Waste Wizard! Voice, Testing and Support
Mind's Eye Tester
PMX: The Magic Hat Beta testing
Primordia Publisher, Voice Actor (Hansel Rossumbuilt, Scraper)
Reality-on-the-Norm: Cold Storage Testing
Reality-on-the-Norm: Stuck at Home Testing
Reality-on-the-Norm: The Postman Only Dies Once Author
Reality-on-the-Norm: The Repossessor (2014) Original story & design
Resonance Voice acting direction
Strangeland Publishing & Voice Work
Tea For Two: A Detective Logan Case Voice Acting
Technobabylon Almost certainly some stuff
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow Publishing and voice direction
The Shivah Writing, character animations, coding
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Unavowed Writing, design and programming
Whispers of a Machine Voice Direction
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Awards & Reviews

Image by 4KbShort

AGS Awards 2016 Winner

AGS Awards 2016 Winner

Best Animation
Best Background Art
Best Character
Best Writing
Image by 4KbShort

AGS Awards 2016 Nominee

AGS Awards 2016 Nominee

Best Character Art
Best Demo
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Gameplay
Best Music & Sound
Best Programming
Best Puzzles
Best Voice Work

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By Somniosus on 20 June 2017

Mr Gilbert always creating and/or publishing mature games which I GREATLY respect and appreciate, had it not been for shardlight I'd of totally given up on this genre! Its a truly remarkable game and as all ways with wadjet eye, the writing is its secret weapon that absolutely destroys any and all competition in a genre dominated by child friendly games even though kids can't play them because they are to difficult so I don't know what's up with that but anyways... PLAY THIS GAME!!!


By oh_hey_ray on 8 April 2016

I absolutely loved this game, and as a longtime Wadjet Eye fan, this one goes up there with my favourites.


By AndyfromVA on 11 March 2016

I've liked all the Wadjet Eye games I've played very much - and I've played almost all of them - but Shardlight is the best yet. The story was very interesting with puzzles that were well-integrated into the story. Ben Chandler's art is amazing and just love how he used the green shards to unify the game world and to bring color to an otherwise brown and dusty post apocalyptic environment. The voice acting was generally good, the best being the voice actress for the main character, Amy. The only thing I would have wished for was some more emotion showed by Amy during one scene [SPOILER ALERT] when several important characters were killed.


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