Steepest Descent

Created in 10 days for Scream Jam 2020, hosted by Caveware Digital. See the author's notes for this game here. See the source code for this game here. This is a short horror game based on a well-known analogy from mathematical optimization for describing certain local search algorithms (notably gradient descent and hill climb). If our goal is to minimize the value of a cost function, then we can i…