Luna Game Labs
Luna Game Labs creates emotionally resonant, narrative-driven games that empower players to support themselves and others through imaginative play and emotionally attuned design.
Luna Game Labs is a narrative game studio focused on envisioning personal growth as incredible journeys. Our mission is to cultivate emotional expression through exploration, creating spaces where reflection, connection, and growth feel both meaningful and engaging. We serve young adults seeking games that resonate with their core values and lived experiences. Luna Game Labs designs narrative-driven games that empower players to support themselves and others through deep, personally meaningful gameplay. Our flagship project, Kindred, is a fantasy RPG where players traverse imaginative inner worlds—confronting distorted thoughts, navigating mind dungeons, and practicing restorative skills to gently soothe distress within themselves and others. Since 2024, Luna Game Labs has collaborated with organizations including ARPA-H, AERDF, and Logitech G, and has been recognized for pioneering emotionally intelligent game design at the intersection of mental health, storytelling, and digital wellbeing.
Product Specs
Kindred is an emotionally adaptive narrative RPG where players explore fantastical inner worlds shaped by their own emotions. Players support themselves and others by confronting symbolic enemies based on cognitive distortions, navigating “mind dungeons” that physically embody the thoughts and feelings of characters, and using emotional mastery abilities inspired by real-world therapeutic approaches (i.e., CBT, DBT, ACT, psychodynamic therapy, art therapy, narrative therapy).
Key Features:
- An emotional combat system where feelings, thoughts, and emotions are game mechanics
- A skill system inspired by different therapeutic approaches and philosophies
- Narrative and journaling-based reflection tools that encourage both in-game and real-life growth
- AI-driven non-playable characters and game environments that adapt to player inputs and emotional states
Impact: Kindred helps young people develop emotional language, self-awareness, and resilience through narrative-design and gameplay. It encourages players to reflect on their own mental health by allowing them to support the game’s characters in navigating their lived experiences.
Christian de Luna
Christian de Luna is the founder of Luna Game Labs, co-founder and board co-chair of Asian Mental Health Collective, a previous White House Mental Health Youth Forum Mentor, a former Apple Interactive Producer, and a 2x Ironman 70.3 finisher. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he focused on how games can foster emotional understanding, narrative agency, and mental wellness. Drawing from over 20 years living with depression, anxiety, and AuDHD, Christian creates stories for those who suffer in silence, offering hope through resonance, emotional depth, and imaginative play. His current projects include: Memento Mori, a speculative fiction novel exploring grief and memory in a world where the dead are forgotten, and Kindred, an emotionally adaptive narrative RPG that transforms resilience and introspection into personal gameplay.
Suzanna So
Dr. Suzanna So is currently an Assistant Professor and Co-Coordinator for the Counseling Psychology program at CSULB. Dr. So is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of California, and she supervises trainees who are pursuing licensure as future LMFTs, LPCCs, and licensed psychologists. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University Chicago, and she completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral psychology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She has clinical experience in the assessment and treatment of early childhood and school-aged children and families, with specialization in interdisciplinary community mental health. Dr. So’s research has focused on community violence exposure and mental health outcomes among youth of color in divested, urban communities. Her current research agenda revolves around understanding resiliency factors that can be targeted in culturally responsive treatment for youth exposed to significant stress, adversity, and trauma.
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