Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This game was created in Fall 2025 as part of SMU Guildhall's Team Game Production curriculum.
Illuminary is a 2D pixel-art Metroidvania platformer where you play as Lumi, a brave candle bringing light back to a desolate cave. Collect light fragments to restore hope to a world consumed by darkness. Explore interconnected rooms, light checkpoint candles, and discover which abilities unlock new paths in this atmospheric adventure.
Players traverse an interconnected world divided into three distinct sections: blue, orange, and purple. The game emphasizes precise platforming, environmental puzzle-solving, and ability-based progression. As players collect light fragments, they unlock three core abilities: double jump for enhanced vertical mobility, balloon float for controlled ascension past hazards, and crystal push for clearing crystalline obstacles blocking their path.
Key Features:
- Ability-Gated Exploration: Unlock three core abilities—double jump, balloon float, and crystal push—that fundamentally change how you navigate the world
- Fixed-Camera Design: Each room is a carefully composed scene inspired by classic platformers, creating deliberate spatial tension and readability
- Atmospheric Minimalism: Navigate a hauntingly beautiful cave with slow, eerie music and a mysterious tone that keeps you wondering what lies ahead
- Precise 2D platforming with tight, responsive controls
- Metroidvania progression system with interconnected world design
- Three unique traversal abilities that expand your movement options
- Atmospheric pixel art world with desolate yet charming aesthetic
- Instant-death hazards that test your platforming skills
This game was created in Fall 2025 as part of SMU Guildhall's Team Game Production curriculum.
Illuminary is a 2D pixel-art Metroidvania platformer where you play as Lumi, a brave candle bringing light back to a desolate cave. Collect light fragments to restore hope to a world consumed by darkness. Explore interconnected rooms, light checkpoint candles, and discover which abilities unlock new paths in this atmospheric adventure.
Players traverse an interconnected world divided into three distinct sections: blue, orange, and purple. The game emphasizes precise platforming, environmental puzzle-solving, and ability-based progression. As players collect light fragments, they unlock three core abilities: double jump for enhanced vertical mobility, balloon float for controlled ascension past hazards, and crystal push for clearing crystalline obstacles blocking their path.
Key Features:
- Ability-Gated Exploration: Unlock three core abilities—double jump, balloon float, and crystal push—that fundamentally change how you navigate the world
- Fixed-Camera Design: Each room is a carefully composed scene inspired by classic platformers, creating deliberate spatial tension and readability
- Atmospheric Minimalism: Navigate a hauntingly beautiful cave with slow, eerie music and a mysterious tone that keeps you wondering what lies ahead
- Precise 2D platforming with tight, responsive controls
- Metroidvania progression system with interconnected world design
- Three unique traversal abilities that expand your movement options
- Atmospheric pixel art world with desolate yet charming aesthetic
- Instant-death hazards that test your platforming skills
