Hope you're able to continue with the concept. Flash photography is a fun horror motif but I think this captures - pun intended - the interesting implications of a flash that seals a moment in time. Using flash to trap ghosts is a really compelling idea. I can understand it probably needs a few more intersecting mechanics to work.
Thanks for submitting Negative to the jam!
Thanks for the comment! I planned quite a bit more for the story and world than what I shared in the game's page so I am hoping to continue this at some point in the future to share that story.
In hindsight, the problem I had during the jam was trying to rectify two competing mechanics:
Having the specters chase the player made photographing them trivial since they could be baited into following the player down a predictable path. At the same time, making the specters faster/more damaging to discourage the player from baiting them made the game too hard since the player would accidentally trigger specters they didn't know were there yet. I tried to rectify that with a visible breath mechanic telling you a specter was close but that also made them too easy to find.
Looking back, I should have just dropped the chase/damage mechanic and moved on to making unique traps for the player to set with some other element adding challenge like having the setting of traps be a puzzle or an overall time limit.
