Descent of Lunaris

Overview

As a freelance Senior Unreal UI Programmer at Unison Games, I joined the Descent of Lunaris project to overhaul and modernize the game's user interface. The primary focus is on total UI refactoring, transitioning the existing UI implementation to leverage CommonUI's powerful features and ecosystem. My work involves implementing proper keyboard navigation throughout all menus, creating a rebindable menu system for player customization, and ensuring the UI architecture follows best practices for maintainability and scalability. With full ownership of the UI layer, I'm establishing robust patterns that will serve the project long-term.

Key Contributions

Total UI refactoring with CommonUI API
Full keyboard navigation implementation
Rebindable menu system
Full ownership of UI architecture
CommonUI ecosystem best practices

Technical Systems

CommonUI Integration

Complete UI refactoring using CommonUI API for robust, maintainable, and input-agnostic interface.

Migrating existing UMG widgets to CommonUI activatable widgets
Implementing proper widget activation and focus flow
Establishing consistent patterns across all UI screens
Reducing bugs through CommonUI's built-in input handling

Keyboard Navigation System

Full keyboard and gamepad navigation support across all game menus.

Focus-based navigation with visual feedback
Proper tab order and focus chains
Seamless mouse/keyboard/gamepad input switching
Accessible navigation patterns

Rebindable Menu System

Player-customizable key bindings with conflict detection and reset options.

Input action remapping UI
Conflict detection and resolution
Save/load binding configurations
Default bindings restoration