Lamplight City News

Playing on different devices? Not to worry, you don't have to start over from the beginning every time!

ROSEWATER is the next entry in the World of Vespuccia franchise, which started with Lamplight City. Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.

FEATURING:

- A thrilling treasure hunt with 5 travel companions. Choices matter, relationships with your companions affect the trajectory of the story.
- Inventory is back, but logical, streamlined, and easy to use—no banging things together to see what sticks. Many situations have multiple solutions based on play style.
- Randomized encounter storylets on your journey, with different situations and outcomes that depend on your previous choices and available resources.
- Fully rotoscoped animations and cinematic closeups emphasize the action.
- High resolution 1280x720 graphics (yes, that's 720p!)
- Full music score by Lamplight City composer Mark Benis, featuring live instruments.
- Meet over 60 characters, voiced by a star-studded cast of professional voice actors.

You can add Rosewater to your wishlist here, and also check out the free demo.

[h3]Event Information[/h3]
We're part of the AdventureX Sales Event from Nov. 2 - Nov. 8. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements.

[h3]Dev insights & gameplay[/h3]
Lamplight City's developer Francisco Gonzalez plays the prologue of the game and reveals interesting behind the scenes information.

[h3]About Lamplight City[/h3]
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?

Watch the broadcast on the store page

[h3]Event Information[/h3]
We're part of the AdventureX Sales Event from Nov. 2 - Nov. 8. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements.

[h3]Dev insights & gameplay[/h3]
Lamplight City's developer Francisco Gonzalez plays the prologue of the game and reveals interesting behind the scenes information.

[h3]About Lamplight City[/h3]
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?

Watch the broadcast on the store page

Hello! This is Francisco González, developer of Lamplight City. I've got a special message from Lamplight City’s composer Mark Benis:

Today, September 13th 2023, marks the 5 year anniversary since we released Lamplight City. Whoa! Months ago when I found out this milestone was coming up, it had me reflecting on really how lucky I was to have collaborated with Francisco on this game. I was a young(er) composer just finding my way, and Lamplight City inspired me to write music that I feel brought out the best in me. The confidence I had to explore different sounds and focus in on a mid-19th-century-inspired orchestral score I really attribute to the game's vastly imaginative world and how much Francisco trusted me to do it justice. For that I'll always be grateful, and I know I'll always look back at our collaboration on this game quite fondly.

So to celebrate this milestone, I dug through my old files and included in a new soundtrack update we've put together 9 pieces arranged for piano and 4 of those with a full score. I chose the piano arrangements based on playability + what I thought would be fun to play, and the pieces with full scores are those where the orchestration/integration in the game might be fun to peek at should you be interested.

Special thank you to the team at Materia Collective -- Sydney, Jamie and Sebastian -- for supporting this project and for their hard work in making this collection a reality. I hope you enjoy revisiting the dark alleyways of Lamplight City with all this new sheet music in hand. And if you give the piano arrangements a go I'd love to hear, please feel free to share!

- Mark

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As Mark said, there’s a Soundtrack update that includes a bunch of new sheet music! Current (and future) owners of the soundtrack can click on “Browse Local Files” after downloading to easily find them.

Thanks everyone for celebrating this big milestone with us! Your support over the years has meant so much, we hope you’ll continue enjoying the game for many more years to come. As a reminder, a developer commentary was added in 2019. so if you haven't listened, it's a great excuse to revisit the game!