Overview
Platform: PC/Mac/Online
Engine: Unity
Genre(s): Interactive Visual Novel
Project Duration: May 2022 – Present
Team: Solo Project
My Role: Narrative/Writing, Design, and Development
Lights Out Warehouse is an interactive visual novel currently under development that focuses on
issues of warehouse automation in companies such as Amazon and Walmart from the point of view of an
automation engineer.
The game is set in a fictional corporation called NileCorp that is in the business of
eCommerce/shipping. The player takes the role of an engineer as part of NileCorp’s automation team.
Their team’s task is to automate the local warehouses. Ordinarily, this would result in many
warehouse workers losing their jobs. But is there a more ethical resolution that benefits everybody?
I am developing the dialogue system of this game from scratch in Unity as a way of learning and
exploring ScriptableObjects and game programming patterns in Unity. I have developed a branching
tree pattern + folder structure to store the dialogues for the game and I customized the Unity
editor to enable quick editing of the ScriptableObjects.