THE LAST LIGHT

🏆 How The Three Themes Are Implemented

Designed specifically for the 100-Hour Indie Connect Game Jam evaluation criteria, integrating all 3 themes directly into core mechanics:

Theme 1: COMIC

• Graphic Novel Architecture: The playable environment is constructed out of printed comic panels with gutter margins and narration caption boxes.

• Dynamic Onomatopoeia: Every interaction spawns pop-in sound bursts (WHOOSH!, CLICK!, BZZZZT!, FROZEN!) with 3D comic typography.

• Halftone & Ink Aesthetic: Procedural Ben-Day dot shading, speech bubbles with speaker tails, and fourth-wall-breaking characters.

Theme 2: LIGHT

• Living Spark Entity: You control Lumi, a living ember emitting real-time 2D raytraced radial illumination.

• Optics & Mirror Raycasting: Projectors cast laser beams that bounce realistically off rotatable 45° mirrors into solar receptors.

• Flare & Energy: Spending energy with [SPACE] flares light across rooms, kindling dark lamps and subduing shadow entities.

Theme 3: TWIST

• Cognitive Dissonance: Signs initially reading "NOTHING HAPPENED HERE" warp into "WAIT... THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. RUN" under light.

• Shadow Identity: The "monsters" are revealed to be citizens blinded by the disaster, shielding their eyes in horror.

• The Grand Revelation: Lumi wasn't born to fix the blackout — Lumi WAS the catastrophic overload itself!

🗺️ The Four Playable Story Areas

1. The Dark Street

Tutorial chapter. Master movement, radial light aura, and spark flare. Meet Mr. Higgins, ignite 3 street lamps, and discover the first glitched billboard.

2. The Broken Theatre

Optical mirror puzzles. Rotate mirrors to guide the projector beam onto the Stage Sensor. Madame Clara realizes the script is rewriting itself in real time.

3. The Shadow District

Shadow management. Freeze roaming shadow phantoms with light flares. Listen to their dialogue to uncover the truth of the blinding catastrophe.

4. The Final Page

Fractured panels and reality peel-back. Solve the Singularity Core circuit and choose between The True Dawn and The Living Arc.

👥 Team-3 Roster & Roles

Team Member	Role & Contribution
Divya Shree	Team Lead • Game direction, narrative design, gameplay systems integration
Maurya Vujini	UI design, comic dialogue architecture, Web Audio coordination & QA
Vidyan Sai	Core programming, 2D raycasting lighting, mirror reflection systems, particle engine
Rupaswi Royal Kosana	Art direction, comic panel layouts, halftone textures, onomatopoeia visual assets
Manjusha V	Level progression, optical puzzle design, pacing and gameplay testing

⚖️ Jam Rules Compliance & Instant Deployment

• Fresh Codebase: Built entirely during the 100-Hour Indie Connect Game Jam.
• Zero Paid Assets: 100% open-source / procedural Web Audio synthesizer and custom canvas graphics.
• Public Repository: Open-source MIT licensed at github.com/coders-16/GLITCH-havkathon.
• Instant Itch.io / GitHub Pages Hosting: Runs instantly in any standard browser without installation or plugins.

📦 DOWNLOAD ITCH.IO READY ZIP (the-last-light-web-build.zip)

HOW TO PLAY

THE FINAL DECISION

THE TRUE DAWN

THE LIVING ARC

ENDING REACHED