Submission for Brackey's Game Jam 2026.1

Theme: Strange Places

I was inspired by the idea of being in a strange, dark room with a flashlight. Spooky ghosts interact strangely with the light.

Instructions

Point the flashlight with the mouse. (The game is pretty hard with a track pad, if you have a real mouse give that a try!)
Click to toggle flashlight colors.
Survive as long as you can. I'd say you win if you can make it to 2 minutes :)
Press spacebar to boogie

Credits

Thanks to those who provided the assets for this game!

If you couldn't tell, I made the sprites myself in Paint.NET. Those are supposed to be ghosts... :)

This game was built with SDL3, Emscripten, and about 1500 lines of delicious, hand-made spaghetti code.

Thanks for playing!

I encourage you to try the game out for yourself, but...

Read this if you'd like some strategy tips!

The ghosts become invisible when you shine the same color light on them. Use one of the other two colors to see (and damage!) them.
You must shine the flashlight on a ghost for a short time to kill it.
The ghosts intensify in a wave pattern, so there are "optimal" times to boogie.
You generally want to swing around and methodically toggle the light for good coverage before the ghosts get too close.
If you see / hear the proximity alert, react as quickly as you can with your flashlight! Resist the urge to boogie until there are too many to handle.

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Strange Places