Lunacia

Project information

Lunacia is an atmospheric puzzle / platformer about finding yourself through dreams. I co-lead this project with Yoon Lee. I was involved in all aspects of the game, but I focused on technical leadership, programming, and visual effects.

One interesting system I worked on with this project was a publisher / subscriber system. Early on it became apparent our technical team would be both large and inexperienced. Additionally, our plans for obstacles, respawning, differing visibility states, and a dynamic soundtrack called for a fair amount of interaction between different systems. I decided the best approach would be to implement an asynchronous messaging queue that would allow developers to communicate with minimal knowledge of each other’s systems. The system proved very effective in reducing integration issues between different developers’ work.