Last Light

The lighthouse's rotation system fails. You are the only one left who can work the lamp. Ships call in over the radio. Each captain gives their name, what they are carrying, how many souls are aboard, and the direction they are coming from. You sweep the beam across the dark water until you find them, and you hold it there. A ship with the light on it follows the safe channel into harbour. A ship left in the dark drifts onto the rocks.

Tonight the fishing boat Marlin is out there with six aboard, the cargo steamer Atlas with fourteen, and the passenger ferry Aurora with two hundred and twelve. They do not wait their turn, and the beam only points one way.

CONTROLS

A / D — swing the beam around the tower

W / S — send the beam further out, or pull it back in

Esc — pause, audio settings, return to menu

This game was made for the ACM Summer Game Jam 2026.

TEAM

Jared Fisher — Programmer
Matthew Goldsworthy — UX Programmer and Concept Designer
William Whitehead — Sole 3D Artist
Chris Matoe — Sole Voice Actor

MUSIC

Gumboot Blues by gorbygorby — CC BY 3.0, via OpenGameArt
Concentration by JSKNYC — CC BY 3.0, via OpenGameArt

ART AND TOOLS

All ship models made by William Whitehead
Stylised Water URP — Bitgem
Skybox Cubemap Extended — BOXOPHOBIC
Low Poly Environment — Skyden Games
PSX Style Shader
BoldPixels

Built in Unity with the Universal Render Pipeline, the Input System and

TextMesh Pro.

1. Download the zip from this page.
2. Right click it and choose "Extract All". Extract the whole folder the game will not run from inside the zip. 
3. Open the extracted folder and run Last Light.exe.
Keep the .exe and the _Data folder together. Moving the .exe on its own will stop the game launching.