Our Team

Adrial A.
Technical Director, Games & infrastructure at LunarForge

Adrial is a cloud infrastructure engineer, developer, and her family's dedicated IT Assistant. She currently lives in Southern CA with her partner and their 5 fur children. In her free time, she love to enjoy the outdoors, reading, writing, and listening to music.

Favorite games: Minecraft, The Sims, World of Warcraft, Stardew Valley, classic Harvest Moon series, Kingdom Hearts, Legend of Zelda.

Les H.
Creative Lead Design Director, Lead Artist and Character Designer at LunarForge

Dedicated to crafting memorable stories that advocate for safe space and inclusion of LGBTQA+ and diverse communities. Through meticulous research and sensitivity feedback from various fields of interest, she creates believable characters that jump from the page. Coffee addict, plant connoisseur, and lover of banned books.

Favorite games: Kingdom Hearts, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Tetris, Jak X, Disco Elysium, and currently dying a lot in Bloodborne.

Michelle N.(a.k.a Road!)
Narrative Designer for Lay to Rest

Michelle is a writer affeciando, having spared the last fifteen years dedicating herself to the craft. She loves breaking down world building, lore, and dissecting other stories to understand what makes them so enjoyable. When they're not writing at home, she’s usually cooking up a storm at work. Full time cook, full time writer, unlimited creativity. When not playing, working, writing, reading, or anything above, she’s usually laying on the ground letting their rabbits jump over her.

Favorite games: Deltarune, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Fire Emblem: Awakening and Kingdom Hearts. Trying to survive the current horrors of Bloodborne.

Allison
UI/UX Designer

Allison is experienced in UI design, and has taken the additional role of being an Accountant for the team. You can find her on her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paintedsummers/?hl=en

Jazmin Puente (she/her)
2D Game Artist/Graphic Designer for Lay to Rest

Jazmin is a visual designer that has collaborated with small businesses and uplifting organizations such as LatinX Animation. Her contributions to the team include designs, animation, props and environments to strengthen its fun visuals and expressive storytelling. In her free time, Jazmin likes to trap her cat Mimosa in hugs, make cute sketches, and treat herself to KKBQ. Favorite games: Pokemon, Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Melissa Manuel
Creative Producer for Lay to Rest

Melissa has been a Production Coordinator for Call of Duty Modern Warfare III and Vanguard. She has also helped produce animation for Mattel’s YouTube content for Barbie and Monster High, including the award winning Barbie Dream Besties series. Melissa currently freelances for Dropout TV alongside her work for LunarForge. When she isn’t producing content professionally she also hosts a podcast with her best friend called Not One Right Way about the entertainment industry highlighting people behind the scenes. Melissa spends most of her free time watching a lot of TV, cooking, or cuddling her cat Mimikyu.

Favorite games: Terraria, Pokemon Diamond, Stardew Valley, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Cult of the Lamb, Bloons TD 6, Core Keeper, Webfishing, and currently a lot of Peak

Mission

LunarForge is dedicated to crafting diversity, inclusivity, and accessible experiences where emotion, beauty, and thoughtfulness is at the core of our values, our gameplay, and how we strive to improve ourselves everyday.