Luminaqua

"Luminaqua: Echoes of the Abyss" is a 2D top-down adventure game where the player is a lost, lonely Dolphin who uses echolocation to navigate an obscured environment, learning new skills from other friendly sea creatures and using them to find the way forwards while avoiding predators lurking in the inky depths.

The development of this game consisted of a team of seven people all working on this one game project for an entire school semester, from September 2023 to December 2023. An early alpha build of "Luminaqua" was showcased at Youmacon in Detroit, Michigan.

On this project, I was one of two people splitting the responsibilities of programming and level design. I created many of the larger overarching systems in the game, including the echolocation visual effects, the dialogue system, the key color control system for colorblindness accessibility, the enemy AI system, and many more smaller things. During this project, I also got some experience working with UI design, visual effects and shaders, and more.

A relatively well polished, but still incomplete version of the game is available to download for free from the itch page linked below. The team hopes to continue development on this game in the future.