HELIOS — The Longest Day: A light-routing logic puzzle game submission for the June Solstice Game Jam
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Muhammad Usman
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A submission for the June Solstice Game Jam, HELIOS — The Longest Day is a real-time light-routing logic puzzle where players use mirrors, splitters, and optical logic gates to bend and divide sunlight to wake dormant crystals before sunset. The game uniquely fuses the solstice theme with gameplay by making light the core mechanic rather than decoration, with optical logic gates as the central puzzle element.
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· 4 pulledHELIOS — The Longest Day is a real-time light-routing logic puzzle.
On the longest day of the year, sunlight is your only tool: you bend the sun's beam with mirrors, divide it with splitters, and channel it through optical logic gates to wake dormant crystals before the sun sets.
The goal was to fuse the two themes into a single mechanic instead of bolting them together
So it's not light-as-decoration. Light is the gameplay, and logic gates are the core mechanic.
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