diff --git a/scenes/game/game_camera.gd b/scenes/game/game_camera.gd
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+++ b/scenes/game/game_camera.gd
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+extends Camera2D
+class_name GameCamera
+
+
+## Get the first possible [GameCamera] instance by climbing the scene tree one ancestor at a time.
+static func get_ancestor(start: Node) -> GameCamera:
+	var current = start
+	while current is Node:
+		if current is GameCamera:
+			return current
+		current = current.get_parent()
+	return null
diff --git a/scenes/game/game_camera.tscn b/scenes/game/game_camera.tscn
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+++ b/scenes/game/game_camera.tscn
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+[gd_scene load_steps=2 format=3 uid="uid://dm068vaseh45n"]
+
+[ext_resource type="Script" path="res://scenes/game/game_camera.gd" id="1_ovc4s"]
+
+[node name="GameCamera" type="Camera2D"]
+editor_draw_screen = false
+script = ExtResource("1_ovc4s")