Lanternfall: a puzzle game generated entirely in code
Six monuments, thirty discoveries, no hand-made assets. A bot has played all thirty; a person playing it in a rendered build is still on the list.
Lanternfall is a third-person Unity puzzle journey through six connected, surreal monuments. The route starts at a main menu and enters a persistent journey scene that streams in each monument. Characters speak before and after the five discoveries of their monument, and each discovery is two trials on a shared puzzle rig — which makes thirty discoveries and sixty trials in all.
It was renamed from its working title on 3 October 2026 (its Reminders list still carries the old name, “Light & Shadow Game”).
Everything is generated
The README’s most distinctive claim is that all art is procedural: geometry,
textures, glyphs, sky, water and even the music are generated in code. The scenes
themselves are generated and git-ignored; BuildAll rebuilds them after a clone. The
earlier prototypes are kept in Archive/legacy/, outside Assets/ so Unity ignores them.
There are EditMode tests for the solver, content and story, and PlayMode tests for
campaign walks, streaming and screenshots, plus a dated verification log.
What the last two weeks were
The repository’s 78 commits (the first on 26 August) include a long polish loop in early October:
- A full-game bot that plays all thirty discoveries through the real controls, and a difficulty audit of all sixty trials, with a frame-time probe.
- A follow camera that sphere-casts so walls never swallow the view, a collision audit, and a clear two-shot for conversations so the camera never ends up inside stone.
- A rewritten set of region music pads with a soft timbre and reverb, an app icon, and solid colliders for pedestals, pool copings and lantern posts.
- On 10 October: the first lessons now teach with one device, the story is told up front, a journal page and a gentle nudge were added, and the village on the horizon lights one window per discovery.
What the bot does not prove
A bot completing the game through its controls shows the puzzles are solvable and the controls reach them. It does not show the game is good to play. The first open item is to play the full thirty-encounter journey in a rendered player, and it has no date. The dated plan is later: fix playtest blockers by 15 March 2027, replace first-pass scenery, animation and audio by 20 April, playtest with at least five new players by 20 May, run final performance checks by 15 June, and publish on 30 June 2027.
Written on 16 Oct 2026 from the repository’s README and commit history. Open items below come from Reminders.