Hello readers of the Luna blog. My name is Jesper and my main responsibility on the project is programming. But before we get into that I’ll give you the obligatory short intro about myself.
I’m 34 years of age and the oldest and the wisest in the group. Like most people that are into games I have played them all thru my life, with a faint memory of Game & Watch’s Fire Rescue as my first experience.
I later played a lot of NES and Master System, but it was the Amiga 500 that really established my love for games. It had cool games like Worms, Moonstone and my favorite, the fighting game IK+. It also had crazy graphical demos, music production programs and eh… adult stuff.
My favorite part from that system now a day’s is how it showed me that games could be about whatever, not just this kind of formula that other systems often made them out to be. I’m very grateful to have learned that at an early age.
As games was this magical thing that only alien geniuses could spawn, the thought of making them myself never really struck me as a kid, and the thought stayed with me as I got older. It wasn’t until the indie scene was well established and a brother entered the industry that I realized that it wasn’t aliens, but people making games. An easy decision was made, and now I am where I am, trying to learn how to create games.

So with that introduction out of the way, let’s talk about programming. My personal goal for the project is to create a controller for the main character, in the form of some kind of finite state-machine, written with C# in Unity.
I’m not exactly set on the details yet, but I’ll most likely create one class for each state the character can be in, implemented thru an abstract super class with inherited state-classes. As I’m not too sure about the implementation using C#, I’ll come back to this topic in later posts.
With the project only having two programmers, I will get to code a bunch of other stuff too. As an example, some simple controls for our main character, and a camera to follow. I made a basic top-down camera with zoom functionality and some artist variables for different offsets, as seen below. It follows from a fixed position, with some dragging and smoothing for a nicer feeling.

Currently I’m working on adding functionality for transparency of objects that are obstructing the player.

I don’t have much more to say in this post except that more content will come. Thanks for reading.