Deep Space Dysphoria Blue’s for Ludic Lemur

Ludic Lemur is a Vancouver based indie game development company that is creating ‘Deep Space Dysphoria Blues’: a transgender-centered narrative RPG paired with a space warfare simulator that explores the themes of body dysphoria and mental health. While the complete game experience consists of two sub-games that interact with and inform each other, our team, Astrosaurs, has been tasked to develop a playable prototype for the space tactical simulator section. 

Our team’s goal is to validate the client’s design choices, confirm technical capabilities of the features and prove that the space battle simulator can symbolize the psychological struggles of making decisions under stressful conditions and with limited knowledge and still be an engaging experience. The challenge of creating this prototype is an exciting one for us Astrosaurs due to the large representation of Game Developers in the team: with four coders, two game artists and a project manager that all self-identify as gamers. 

Our approach to reaching success is to use our creative, artistic and programming talents to develop a playable prototype that showcases the client’s original game design intent combined with our proposed solutions.