Goodbye Dr. Sanchez
A first-person, two-player online co-op horror game on Steam. One player explores, the other guides them by walkie-talkie from a locked room.
Role
Lead Programmer
Period
Released June 2023
Status
Released on Steam
Overview
Goodbye Dr. Sanchez is built around asymmetric communication: "The Fugitive" explores the house while "The Prisoner" guides them over an in-game walkie-talkie to find keys, avoid traps and escape.
Solution
I built the online layer with Mirror networking, Steam lobbies and joining through Steamworks, and in-game voice chat with Dissonance. The game also ships with Steam achievements, Steam Cloud, a modifiers system and localization in seven languages.
Outcome
Released on Steam in June 2023. It was my first commercial game as lead programmer, and the project where I learned to take networked features all the way to release.