False Dawn

FALSE DAWN is a 3D comic-book action brawler. Every scene is a panel, and the story is told by a cheerful Narrator in a caption box.

He hands you his warm, golden Light and sends you to clean his pages of the Shades: sad, purple, leaky little things. Every Shade you strike releases a tiny light that drifts up into his caption box. He says he is keeping it safe. The box keeps getting bigger.

Fight through three zones, face the Warden, and find out who the story really belongs to.

Jam themes

• Comic: panels, halftone ink, onomatopoeia, caption boxes and speech bubbles.
• Twist: the voice guiding you is not who he says he is.
• Light: gold versus violet. Which one is the real light?

How to play

WASD	Move
Left mouse	Attack (the 3rd hit of a combo is a heavy finisher)
Right mouse (hold)	Guard (block hits from the front)
Space	Dodge
Q / E / R	Light abilities (unlocked during the story)
F	Heal (spends Light)
Mouse	Aim
Esc / P	Pause, settings, restart, skip fight
Enter	Skip a line of dialogue
M	Mute

Tips

• Landing hits fills your Light meter. Abilities and healing spend it.
• Armoured enemies: crack the shell with your heavy finisher, then hit the glowing core with Light.
• Circles and lines on the floor warn you where an attack is about to land. Dodge out of them.
• The Warden blocks hits from the front. A heavy finisher breaks his guard.

For judges and testers

• A full run takes about 15 minutes.
• Stuck on a fight? Open the pause menu (Esc) and choose SKIP FIGHT, or press K on the death screen. The story carries on as normal.
• Dying restarts the fight you were in, never a fight you already won.

Best experience

• Play in Microsoft Edge for the most natural narrator voice (Chrome works too). The voice can be turned off in Settings.
• Use a mouse and keyboard; desktop only.
• Click Fullscreen (bottom-right of the game) for the full comic-panel view.

Team Illuminati

• Amey Patel: Framework & Main Harness · Game Flow · PR Reviews, Task Distribution & Team Alignment
• Aryan: Narrative & Script
• Yagna Saradava: Enemies & Armour
• Daksh Panchotiya: Bosses & the Twist
• Nipun Jain: Visuals & World

Credits & AI disclosure

• 3D characters: KayKit Adventurers and Skeletons packs by Kay Lousberg (CC0).
• Fonts: Bangers (Vernon Adams) and Comic Neue (Craig Rozynski), SIL OFL.
• Music and sound effects are synthesized in code (Web Audio). The narrator's voice is your browser's built-in text-to-speech.
• Code libraries: three.js, postprocessing, Vite, TypeScript.
• AI disclosure: game code was written with Claude (Anthropic) via Claude Code, from the team's design and direction. All game design, story, twist, mechanics and creative direction are by Team Illuminati.