This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam
What I Built
The Longest Night is a browser game about codes, daylight, and one impossible question.
It's June 21 — the solstice — and you're the night-shift cryptanalyst at a remote listening station. Four encrypted transmissions arrived at noon. Command wants them broken before the sun goes down, and the sun is going down: an animated sky drains from afternoon gold to starlight in real time as you work. Wrong answers and hints burn extra daylight. If night falls, you finish by starlight — and the ending remembers.
The four transmissions walk you up a small history of cryptography: a Caesar shift you crack by feel with a dial, a turned-around alphabet you read through one of three lenses, a Vigenère cipher whose keyword is hidden in the story itself, and finally a rotor cipher that advances with every letter — a quiet nod to Enigma. The answers are drawn fresh every watch, so no two runs solve alike.
