Turing’s Light: Escape the Enigma – June Solstice Game Jam Submission

A developer built 'Turing’s Light: Escape the Enigma', an AI-powered puzzle game for the June Solstice Game Jam. The game uses Google Gemini to generate riddles and evaluate answers, with a Turing Test mechanic as the final challenge. It was built solo from a single HTML file using vanilla JavaScript and the Canvas API.

🎮 The Game Turing’s Light: Escape the Enigma is an AI‑powered puzzle game where you wake in a dark room and rely on ECHO, a ghostly AI echo of Alan Turing, to fire beams of light into the void. - Live Demo: https://turing-light-game.netlify.app https://turing-light-game.netlify.app - How to Play: Type answers to Turing‑themed riddles generated live by Google Gemini. Each correct answer fires a beam of light that reveals a hidden digit. Collect all four digits, pass the Imitation Gate a Turing Test , and enter the sequence to win. - Theme Connection: Light vs. dark is the core mechanic – you literally push back the night with each correct answer, culminating in the solstice sunrise. - Built with: HTML/CSS/JS, Canvas, Web Audio API, Gemini API gemini-2.5-flash 🤖 Best Google AI Usage The game uses the Gemini API as its central mechanic: - Gemini generates a unique, contextual riddle each round, tailored to the player’s difficulty. - It evaluates free‑text answers with semantic understanding, not exact matching – accepting synonyms, partial phrasing, and clever interpretations. - At the Imitation Gate, Gemini improvises a sincere answer to "What does it mean for a mind to be truly free?" and the player must distinguish it from a scripted impostor – a literal Turing Test within the game. - Without the AI, the game falls back to a small archive, but the full experience – dynamic riddles, adaptive hints, and the climactic gate – only works with Gemini. 🎥 Demo Video https://youtu.be/CtjprKqM59E https://youtu.be/CtjprKqM59E 💡 Development I built the entire game solo, from a single HTML file, using vanilla JavaScript and the Canvas API. The Gemini integration was done via a simple fetch call with prompt engineering to control tone, difficulty, and output format. The solstice theme is embedded in every layer: the gauge, the lives sparks , the colour palette, and the final sunrise. This is my entry for the June Solstice Game Jam .