Shine The Anglerfish

Info

Released: June 28th 2026

Genre: Spooky Dungeon Crawler?

Created by: Game Jam Squad

Role: Programmer

Engine: GameMaker

Team Size: 4

Description

Trapped in total darkness, you have the power to bring light! Shine your way past enemies and find the exit on each floor. It takes 3 hits to die, and your light is limited. Upon finishing a floor, your health and light replenish!

Made for GM48 (49), the theme was Total Darkness: https://gm48.net/game-jams/total-darkness/games/shine-the-anglerfish

Thoughts

This was the second GM48 I participated in with the same team from the first one, where we made Equal-ish. This time the theme was “Total Darkness”. The idea started about being in a cave where you use a flashlight to navigate through darkness, but once the theming was brought up and aquatic was one of the ideas, we then made it about an anglerfish using light to defend itself. If we had more time, the idea was you needed light to reveal the walls and find the exit, but in the final game light is just used to kill enemies. It didn’t rank well in the jam, but the concept we made was interesting!