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Other than that, it'd be awesome to see this fleshed out with some additional audio and sound effects to really pull the mood together.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1197179,"author_name":"LDJam user 426074","author_uid":"426074","epoch":1776774910,"text":"Visuals and the scanning effect are really great, loved that\ncool idea overall, plays nicely\nreally wanted to blow up the target on the mini but couldn\u2019t figure it out\nfeels like this could be expanded further, it\u2019s already fun \nAlso has some perfomance issues when ping but not crytical at all","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1197348,"author_name":"Pavlo","author_uid":"pavlo","epoch":1776776328,"text":"Visual effects are great! Really cool idea!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1216751,"author_name":"skiddings","author_uid":"skiddings","epoch":1777238862,"text":"I've tried to address the performance issues, and I've added mobile controls - hopefully all within the allowed post jam fixes and porting. No changes to the gameplay or graphics. The original version is available for download.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1216902,"author_name":"Ethernal Tech","author_uid":"ethernal-tech","epoch":1777254078,"text":"great idea!! love it the effects","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1217766,"author_name":"mechanicallife","author_uid":"mechanicallife","epoch":1777320638,"text":"I think the game look very clean, I managed to beat both levels without much difficulty. The look of it reminded me a bit of Frozen Synapse. I felt like the enemies did not do much though, I mostly dies to walking into random orange objects. I think it's a little unfortunate to use AI to code in game jams but I also think its important to have fun and if the code is a blocker then what the hell. Anyway pretty neat game, and fun that it's just in plain Javascript!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1217908,"author_name":"Euler Moises","author_uid":"euler-moises","epoch":1777330983,"text":"![Sem t\u00edtulo.png](\/\/\/raw\/23f\/f1\/z\/72d7d.png)\n\nI thought the idea was really cool and I had a lot of fun in the short time I played. I was expecting a longer game, but I imagine the short time for its creation hampered your plans.\n\nEven though it's short, it's very polished. I didn't find any bugs.\n\nI loved the traffic light mechanic. How the light is blocked by obstacles. You did a great job.\n\nCongratulations!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1218017,"author_name":"Jahwffrey","author_uid":"jahwffrey","epoch":1777349744,"text":"Extremely solid implementation, and I really dig the vector graphics style! I was surprised a few times by enemies running out but I usually dodged out of the way, it was a pretty slick effect","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1218065,"author_name":"The Big Lost","author_uid":"the-big-lost","epoch":1777362272,"text":"Fun little stealth\/puzzle experience!\n\nI too am not a fan of the use of AI in a game jam (or in general \ud83d\ude05), but I commend you for disclosing it. The idea is still your own. It holds up well and uses the theme to great effect!\n\nWould\u2019ve loved some music to compliment the mood.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1219034,"author_name":"Jhonny111","author_uid":"jhonny111","epoch":1777466841,"text":"Neat idea. The ping might need \"some\" cooldown maybe.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1219602,"author_name":"Grizwhirl","author_uid":"grizwhirl","epoch":1777548313,"text":"This was a really cool entry. The ping was handled really well. 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Good game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1221972,"author_name":"nicardo","author_uid":"nicardo","epoch":1777913357,"text":"nice idea ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld59\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/skiddings.itch.io\/ld59-last-known-position","text":"Itch.io"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"66179","g_author":"1004078","g_event":"LD59","g_eventkey":"113","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"284932","g_title":"Last Known Position","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"323","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"430625","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"430625","n_urlkey":"284932","n_parent":"424249","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/last-known-position","n_slug":"last-known-position","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"4078","n_created":"0","n_modified":"0","n_version":"1372753","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"id":430625,"parent":424249,"_superparent":9,"author":4078,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2026-04-21T01:42:27Z","created":"2026-04-20T21:12:42Z","modified":"2026-05-04T16:49:17Z","_trust":2,"version":1372753,"slug":"last-known-position","name":"Last Known Position","body":"**A top-down stealth game set on a lightless alien world.**\n\n\n\nYou wake alone on an alien world forsake by light.\n\nAnd something has gone terribly wrong.\n\nYou are blind - your only tool is a short-range LIDAR ping that gives you a brief peek into to gloom.\n\nUse it to map your surroundings, locate enemies, and find your objectives. \n\nBut every ping is a signal, and something in the dartk is listening\n\n\n## Controls\n\n- **WASD \/ Arrow keys** - Move\n- **Space** - Fire ping\n- **E** - Interact with terminals and switches\n- **Tab** - Pause menu (also lets you adjust display size)\n- **F** - Toggle fullscreen\n\nGamepad is also supported: left stick to move, A or RT to ping, X to interact.\n\nTouch controls (expiremental):\n- Movement: On the left side touch and hold for virtual joystick\n- Fire ping: Tap right side to trigger a ping\n- Interaction: Contextual button will appear on the right\n- Adjust game size by pinching\n- Double tap on title screen to toggle fullscreen\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------\nPost Jam Changelog:\n- Fix performance issues by introducing performance profiles. 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Please try the itch.io version or a different browser in landscape mode.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n## Features\n\n- LIDAR ping system with raycasted wavefront rendering - objects are only visible inside the expanding pulse\n- Enemy AI that hunts by ping detection, not line of sight - they hear you, not see you\n- Doors and switches with linked gate logic\n- Mines, scolding leaking steam vents, and deadly pools of acid\n- Multiple levels with a campaign progression\n- Level selector\n- Level editor included in the download (open via the dev menu in-game)\n- Secret cheats and dev menu (backtick and shift+backtick)\n\nAlas I only had time to build 2 levels.\n\nThere's a full featured level editor and lots of assets - I'll build some postjam levels soon(tm).\n\nThis project made heavy use of claude code. It may not be coding in the traditional sense but it's definitely game design, which made this project pretty fun. It certainly took a lot of work. More thoughts on that soon...\n\n![LKP_titlescreen.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/eef\/z\/71a6b.png)\n\n![LKP_gameplay4.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/eef\/z\/71a6f.png)\n\n![LKP_gameplay1.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/eef\/z\/71a72.png)\n\n![LKP_gameplay2.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/eef\/z\/71a73.png)\n\n![LKP_gameplay3.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/eef\/z\/71a74.png)\n\n## Tech\n- Vanilla JavaScript (ES modules) \u2014 no game framework\n- Canvas 2D API \u2014 all rendering\n- Web Audio API \u2014 all sound, fully procedural (oscillators + noise, no audio files)\n- Vite \u2014 dev server and build tool\n\nIt's kind of mad how quickly the AI coding tools takes care of all the boring stuff. 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