This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam
What I Built
Turing's Dawn is a browser puzzle game where daylight is a resource that drains in real time, and the only way to hold back the dark is to break the codes a vanished mind left behind.
On the longest day of the year, the light starts running out. You're stranded in the seam between the longest day and the shortest night, and a daylight meter drains the entire time you're solving. Six chambers, six codebreaking disciplines — a Caesar dial, a binary sunrise, a logic-gate garden, the pattern of days, an honest-to-goodness Turing machine, and a final Vigenère "Dawn Key" assembled from every fragment you collect. Solve a chamber and you claw some light back; stall, and the screen literally closes in — a vignette deepens, the edges bleed red, and a heartbeat starts up under the music.
My goal was to make the solstice theme mechanical, not decorative. "Longest day → shortest night" isn't a backdrop painted behind a cipher game — it's the pressure. Daylight is a real, draining clock, so the theme becomes a verb you can lose. And the whole thing is an ode to Alan Turing, who broke codes to push back a darkness of his own, and whose dawn came far too late.
