This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam
What I Built
Solstice Runner is a browser-based endless runner where you play as a ray of sunlight racing across the June solstice sky — the longest day of the year. Your goal: jump over creeping shadow obstacles and survive as long as possible.
As you play, the world transforms around you. The sky slowly shifts from warm midsummer gold to deep solstice night — a dawn-to-dusk progression tied to your score. Stars emerge, the moon rises, and the obstacles grow faster and taller. The game ends when shadow swallows you.
Alan Turing tribute: the shadow obstacles are etched with binary code — fragments of the ASCII encoding of "ALAN" and bits from the binary patterns of early computing. As you play, facts about Turing appear at the bottom of the screen, reminding you whose birthday falls just after this solstice. He was a man whose brilliant light the world tried to extinguish. In this game, you fight to keep the light alive.
